> 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.
I think that would be OK to start with. In a subsequent iteration, associating a Mendeley / Zotero / other identity with a particular style would be useful for authentication but it also means that you could incorporate profile info - such as name, description and photo into the 'About style X' page, which might be useful for people wanting to know whether a style is the one they are looking for. Regards, Rob. On 2 April 2012 10:01, Steve Ridout <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > This SF email is sponsosred by: >> > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> > _______________________________________________ >> > xbiblio-devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF email is sponsosred by: >> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> _______________________________________________ >> xbiblio-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
