On 7/31/06, Ross Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think one of the stumbling blocks we're having here is trying to figure out what we're really using citations for. 1) There's obviously a group that wants this data to be used with bibliographic management software 2) There's a group that wants these citations to be able to link to fulltext/print/etc. for any person's library 3) There's a group (I think?) that wants to be able to display properly formatted citations (or, at least more properly). Are we leaving a scenario out? #3 seems the most complicated. If the goals of #1 are met, then #2 will most likely be met, as well (although not necessarily the reverse). Does this seem accurate?
On 3, I've been working on cracking the formatting nut for the past couple years, and am just about done [1]. It is indeed quite difficult, but I mostly see it as distantly related to hCite. But I see citation metadata as a cycle. I want ulitmately to be able to output good uF metadata such that users can: - view a nicely formatted document in their browser, complete with proper citations - click some button and go to the original article or book - click some other thingy and import citations into my browser-based reference database (coming real soon, GPL licensed!), or copy-and paste the citation content directly into Word or OpenOffice - be able to use that data to create other documents with citations So yeah, a good data format supports 3, though is not so much its own requirement. Bruce [1] <http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/archives/2006/07/29/csl-progress> _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
