On 9/25/06, Michael McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The option of just ignoring types altogether - not including a type property at all - is certainly possible - it would make human-reading and publishing easier but automatic parsing somewhat harder. This might be a worthwhile tradeoff.
I feel this is a very short-sighted decision, if it's the route hCite goes... You'd never be able to link to an appropriate copy (because you wouldn't be able to determine with any semblance of confidence what an item actually is) and I'm therefore not sure what the point of this is. I guess the way I look at it is this: the entire point of formatting a citation in a standardized way is so that another scholar can then go in and know how to find the item again to follow the first person's research. If the second scholar's /browser/ can do this work, the way that it looks on the screen is rather insignificant (much to the chagrin on the MLA and the APA, but they'll probably be happier in the long run). I've gone on record repeatedly that I don't care if hCite looks like OpenURL as long as it's easy to make something remotely OpenURL from it, but this is a fairly vital part of OpenURL... the very basic notion of knowing what something is. I would recommend that we at least use the basic the journal (journal, article, issue, proceeding, conference, preprint), book (bookitem, book, proceeding, conference, report), dissertation (or thesis), or patent that are currently defined under the San Antonio profile in OpenURL (and it's actually trivial to add other formats if necessary -- yes, that's an open invitation to you, Bruce ;)). No, you don't have to use these labels, but if you want to get the darn thing, choose something that we can map to. Because static, non-actionable lists are so last web trend. -Ross. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss