Hi again,

As indicated in my very first email, I had 2 other emails I wanted to send to 
this list as well. Here is the second one…

When we launched Papers2, we also introduced a new way to generate a citekey 
which we call a 'universal citekey' generator. The basic idea is that by using 
a hash on the title or on the doi, Papers2 is able to generate a citekey that 
will be different for two different papers, and that will still be the same for 
two different users, even if they do not share their Papers library (and as 
long as they both have the correct title or doi).

Again, because of time constraints, we had not really explained in much detail 
what that meant exactly. We now have a document on our knowledge base, to 
describe exactly how universal citekeys are generated by Papers. This is a very 
technical description, that will only be of interest to the geekiest of you. It 
can also be of interest for other app developers that would like to use the 
same algorithm and generate the same universal citekey (that would be great!).

Here is the link to the current draft of this document:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360874/universal-citekey.pdf

In any case, I realize this is only tangentially related to CSL development, so 
if there is interest in any of that from some of you, let me know. There is 
also this discusssion on our support site:

http://support.mekentosj.com/discussions/suggestions/1942-universal-citekeys-discussion-and-questions

Thanks,

Charles


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http://mekentosj.com



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