On 3/28/06, Ross Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/28/06, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have to disagree on the usefulness of the OpenURL stuff in this context. > > Can you explain this? w/r/t HTML, I find OpenURL the /most/ useful in this > context, with this context being web content and OpenURL being a means to > link a citation to an appropriate copy/service. > > In fact, I think if you use the 80/20 rule, your majority of users would be > /much/ happier finding fulltext for a given citation than the ability to > effectively load it into their citation manager.
Not aimed at you in particular Ross, but I really hate it when people trot out the 80/20 rule, whose subtext is always about placing the argument of others in the 20 category. And usually when people do it in the context of citations, it is people who come from the hard sciences telling the humanities people to be quiet (usually in the form of "BibTeX is great, why use anything else?"). So if we do want to talk about 80/20 here, we need to clarify: whose 80/20? Do we only create a MF that works for geeks who code their own HTML? Or do we consider a more inclusive approach that would be appropriate for a broader range of users? I'm not dismimssing OpenURL out of hand. Indeed, I added the "in this context" qualifier, and certainly one could include OpenURL's (and DOI's) within a MF. But I do reject the notion that the existing OpenURL journal article schema, for example, provides a good model to design a more general microformat. It's just flat key/value pairs, which does not scale. To me a test of an 80/20 format is can a user/developer reliably and consistently encode the following: 1. articles (not just journal articles, but also for other periodicals) 2. speeches and other presentatiions (like a conference paper) The trick is to avoid genre-specific property names like "jtitle" or "conference-title" and exploit the nested possibilities of HTML and the fact that one can include more than one class attribute. But this does get us back to use cases and requirements. By your logic, we might not bother with citation text at all. For me, though, I want to be able to extract that content in addition to view it. We could probably cover both needs though. Aside: I typically send my publishers XHTML (generated from DocBook and RDF source), so my full citations and bibliographic entries are encoded in a microformat at that point. But there I have to conform to precise publisher requirements about citation style. Bruce _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
