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--- Comment #49 from Project LibX <[email protected]> 2012-11-15 19:59:49 UTC 
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LibX (libx.org) is a COinS processor, used by over 200,000 users affiliated
with over 1,000 libraries worldwide.  We link users to their OpenURL resolvers
to obtain referenced items - journal and newspaper articles and books.

We are in the middle of a project to greatly improve COinS processing, with
Wikipedia as the primary beneficiary.  Whereas the current implementation
simply links users; our planned implementation would contact the user's library
through such APIs as the Summon API and directly find links to where the user
can get the item.  This is of tremendous benefit, particularly to users of
academic libraries with subscriptions to journal database or news paper
archives.

Please restore this functionality, either by restoring COinS, ajaxing COinS, or
using alternative microformats; please provide this functionality such that not
only metadata extraction is facilitated (like Zotero needs), but also such that
a user interface can be provided that alerts users that an agent has processed
the metadata - LibX, for instance, places a 'cue' where a COinS appears; we
would like to add a tooltip.  See an example of our envisioned design here:
http://libx.org/how-to-set-up-libx-with-the-summon-api/  (This shows what we
right now do for ISBNs on a page - we are working on doing just that for COinS,
though would probably stop this project if Wikipedia drops COinS since you are
the major provider at this point.)

Thank you for your consideration.

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