A quick followup ...

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Charles Parnot
<[email protected]> wrote:

...

> 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).

What happens if the item is untitled and doesn't have a DOI (not
uncommon, say, in the humanities)?

Related aside:

Here's my own, human-readable (for use in markdown), key algorithm for
RSS feeds (news articles in particular):

https://gist.github.com/886834

Bruce

Bruce

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