On 30 March 2012 19:34, Robert Knight <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does Zotero allow people to share a Word/OO document which uses a custom
> > style between different machines and users easily?
>
> Giving all created styles an ID which doubles as a URL from which the
> style can be fetched, so they could
> work in the same way as existing styles and be automatically
> downloaded by clients if necessary, seems like
> the obvious option. The 1-click install can just be a link to this
> URL - possibly converted to a tool-appropriate
> link (Mendeley registers itself as a handler for mendeley:// links and
> I believe Zotero and Papers both have a similar facility).
>
> So for the style ID/URL, something like:
> http://citationstyles.org/styles/<prefix>/<style name>
>
> Where <prefix> is some prefix assigned to all styles created with the
> tool and <style name> is
> some name assigned by the user (from an alphabetic limited to letters,
> numbers and hyphens).
>
> The main question then is whether/how to handle updates and
> authentication.
For updates the following could work:
http://citationstyles.org/styles/<prefix>/<style name> - returns the newest
style with this base URL
http://citationstyles.org/styles/<prefix>/<style name>?version=<version> -
returns a specific version of the style, where <version> starts at 1 and
increments each time a user exports an update of this style from the style
editor tool.
The simplest way to implement this would be with no authentication, which
could work since if someone changes your style, your version is still there
in the history. On the other hand, I think authentication is preferable,
since if there's a disagreement about a style I'd like to know who I'm
arguing with, and to avoid malicious users purposely entering bad data.
What do the admins of citationstyles.org think of this?
> Zotero and Mendeley both
> have online accounts that could be used as identities for this purpose
> and I presumably Papers must have one for Livfe as well.
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
> On 30 March 2012 18:00, Sebastian Karcher <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Steve Ridout <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Does Zotero allow people to share a Word/OO document which uses a custom
> >> style between different machines and users easily? I know that Mendeley
> >> doesn't at the moment.
> >
> > neither does Zotero.
> >
> > --------
> > Sebastian Karcher
> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > Department of Political Science
> > Northwestern University
> >
> >
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