Based on the existence of a URL in the examples listed at the end of this email, I propose modifying the working straw format at http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-brainstorming#Brian.27s_Straw_format to include a URL field, denoting the URL to a copy of the work available online (often a PDF, but could be anything linkable).
I suggest that it could, but would not necessarily, be combined with a field representing a unique identifier for the cited item, as for instance in the case of a DOI URL. I also suggest that in the case of identifiers like a DOI or ISBN which can be represented as a parameter in a link to doi.org or some other resolver, that the format encourage using a URL field for those identifiers and not include separate fields for each such identifier. In other words, I think that class="url uid" is sufficient to encode DOI/ISBN/etc., and we shouldn't add a separate DOI class, a separate ISBN class, and so on. For an example of how I think it might look, see http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-brainstorming#Citing_a_conference_publication Any comments or suggestions? Thanks, -mike Examples from the web with URL data: http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#CiteSeer_database_search_results http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#W3C_XHTML_Spec_Example http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#Google_Cache http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#Book http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#Journal_Articles http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#Historical_Sources http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#EPrints.org http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-examples#Citation_of_an_Online_Resource This omits the cases where other identifiers like DOI and ISBN are used, but that only adds to the relevant examples, if you buy my argument about using URL for those. -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
