On 28 Mar 2006, at 17:27, Michael McCracken wrote:
Hi, so since we've got a large number of examples on the examples
page, I think it's time to float an initial version of a citation
microformat.
I've put a suggestion up on the wiki at
http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-brainstorming - I don't claim
that it's complete - help fill it in, but keep in mind that we should
start out simple. I think I've captured nearly enough to satisfy the
80/20 rule based on the examples we've got, and I think a majority of
BibDesk users would be delighted with 50/50!
I tried hard to think of it as a microformat first and resist the
temptation to include everything I've seen in other bibliographic data
formats. I think there's a real danger here of making it complicated
enough that it's hard to adopt, possibly more so than with other
microformats.
I also don't claim to be any good at designing microformats - I just
really want to see one, and a bad strawman has to be better than
nothing at all. I'm eager to hear where I diverged from the design
patterns, exhibited ignorance, or any other criticism.
Thanks for setting that up Mike, I'd like to see something finalised
too. I think the main difficulty is defining the aims and uses for a
citation microformat (and I agree with Ross that linking is probably
the most important). Is the aim to be able to convert losslessly
between a full citation format like MODS and microformatted XHTML, or
does there just need to be enough information to identify the item?
Either way, here's the kind of thing I had in mind, just for a
comparison to your straw man...
<div class="bibliography">
<ol class="reference-list">
<li class="citation reference book">
<span class="title">Title of the Article</span>.
<span class="creator name">Doe J</span> and
<span class="creator name">Bloggs F</span>.
<span class="container"> In
<a class="uri" href="urn:isbn:45346327"/>
<span class="title">Title of the Book</span>
(<span class="year">1988</span>);
<span class="editors">
<span class="editor">John Green</span> and
<span class="editor">Simon Brown</span> (Eds);
</span>
<span class="publisher">
<span class="name">ABC Books</span>,
<span class="location">New York</span>.
</span>
</span>. pp
<span class="pages">
<span class="start">33</span>-
<span class="end">56</span>.
</span>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
I guess there are some things in there that could become vcards, if
you wanted.
alf.
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