Thanks Rob,
currently we're just planning title-->abbreviations, which seems by far the
most important issue to solve, though as you know, citeproc-js is already
able to process more complex things like abbreviating institutions etc.,
which Frank uses in his MLZ. There are some issues with this that will need
fine-tuning as we implement this more broadly, e.g. dealing with articles,
capitalization etc. - but that still seems like the easiest way to go.
Thanks for the info on CAS etc. - those lists sound rather proprietary, as
does ISSN and journalseek, both of whom sell their data. IANAL, but it
seems to me like we should be able to derive the lists ourselves, but we'd
need a comprehensive list of journal names to start from.
Sebastian
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Robert Knight
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Rintze and I are planning to include abbreviations lists in JSON format
> on a repository in the citation-style-language github.
>
> Thank-you for doing this. It is much appreciated. Is this a simple
> (full name -> abbreviation) mapping or do you plan to include any
> other information?
>
> > IIRC, Mendeley has a couple of lists on dropbox linked to from that
> thread. Could we use those? Are any of you aware of any licensing issues?
>
> I'm afraid I haven't looked into the provenance/licensing of those
> lists. I suspect the users who provided them didn't either. In the
> case of CAS, I believe these abbreviations are derived automatically
> from the list of word mappings at
> http://www.cas.org/content/cas-standard-abbreviations#listinga , in
> turn many of those are derived from the ISSN title word abbreviation
> list (see http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/j-abbrev.html)
>
> > (but with a non-working link...)
>
> Will look into this.
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
> On 31 December 2012 11:44, Sebastian Karcher <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > IIRC, Mendeley has a couple of lists on dropbox linked to from that
> thread.
> > Could we use those? Are any of you aware of any licensing issues?
>
>
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