Thanks. We have talked about citation ids here, and you'll note some discussion as well of a common JSON data format for embedding in documents that ensures those documents can be portable across CSL implementations. You might want to consider that as well?
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Charles Parnot <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Charles Parnot > [email protected] > twitter: @cparnot > http://mekentosj.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
