Hi all,
I'm very much a newbie to microformats, having had my interest peaked by Dan
Cederholm at An Event Apart in Boston in late March. So, I'm sure my question
is elementary (I hope not too elementary for this list). I'm working on front
end coding for an academic research center's new website that will provide
users with access to all kinds of research publications by its faculty. I
looked through the information on the wiki about the citation microformat and
would like some feedback concerning whether or not I am heading in the right
direction with how I'm coding publication entries for a microformat that is
still in development. I would like to do as much work as I can now to mark up
these items correctly even though the microformat is still being worked on. Any
tips or suggestions ?
Here is some background information on how we will group publications on the
site. Our top level categories for publications are: Published papers, working
papers, conference papers, seminar papers, books, datasets, and "In the News".
It isn't until you get one level down in our categorization scheme that
publications will take on standard bibliographic types. For example, our "In
the News" category contains standard types of non-academic work produced by our
faculty: Op-ed, book reviews, interviews, magazine articles, newspaper
articles, etc.
I'm also a bit fuzzy on how I would use hCard in combination with this
microformat for author and publisher. For each publication there would always
be at least one faculty member associated with our Center as an author and we
will have contact and bio pages for these people that easily lends itself to
using hCard.
Here are a couple of examples of how I am coding brief summaries for published
journal articles and newspaper articles:
<dl class="inthenews">
<dt class="title"><a
href="res_publicat/pub_papers/summary_pubpapers.htm">Assessing China's
Power</a></dt>
<dd class="author">by <a href="people/longbio.htm">Joseph S. Nye,
Jr.</a></dd>
<dd class="publisher">Published by: <cite><a
href="http://www.boston.com";>The Boston Globe</a></cite></dd>
<dd class="description">We examine the empirical role of different
explanations for the lack of flows of capital from rich to poor
countries—the “Lucas Paradox.” The theoretical explanations
include differences in fundamentals…</dd>
<dd class="category">Publication Type: Op-Ed</dd>
<dd class="date">Publish date: MM/DD/YYYY <a
href="res_publicat/pub_papers/summary_inthenews.htm" class="more">More</a>
</dl>
<dl class="paper">
<dt class="title"><a
href="res_publicat/pub_papers/summary_pubpapers.htm">Reconciliation as identity
change: A social-psychological perspective</a></dt>
<dd class="author">by <a href="people/longbio.htm">Herbert C.
Kelman</a></dd>
<dd class="description">This artcle focuses on reconciliation in the
context of and in relation to an emerging or recently completed process of
conflict resolution.…</dd>
<dd class="category">Publication Type: Journal article</dd>
<dd class="date">Publish date: MM/DD/YYYY <a
href="res_publicat/pub_papers/summary_pubpapers.htm" class="more">More</a></dd>
</dl>
Full summaries would also include: Author bio information, the full Chicago
Manual of Style formatted citation, and copyright information.
And if the general microformat list is more appropriate, I apologize. Since
citation is still an open microformat I came here.
Thanks for your help,
K. Caulfield
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