I have a strong opinion on this, but I realize the limitations imposed by the search done on the Zotero page, and will adpat to whatever decision is made.
I think the `<title>` field should not include any acronym or abbreviation, except in rare cases. The acronym should be instead stored in the `<title-short>` field. In my opinion, when the user looks for a style, they should only see the title. The acronym in parenthesis is noise. Or maybe to be more subtle: the display of the title and the acronym can be displayed both, but in a way that is optimized for readability etc… A good (?) analogy is maybe filename and extension: yes, a three-letter extension is a way to tell what the file type is, but it is better to display an icon that represents the file type. In short, the title and the acronym are 2 separate pieces of information. For Papers, I have a script to include the styles in the application package, and part of the processing is to change the titles that include an acronym in parentheses. Instead, the search in Papers is written so that it also searches for acronyms based on the title. It's smart enough to skip some words as well, like 'the' or 'of'. It works well. If I could make use of the `title-short` field, it would be even better, I suppose :-) Cheers, Charles On Mar 6, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering if anybody has a preference on how we deal with journal > title abbreviations. > > Many journals/institutes have a full primary title, but are commonly > referred to by their abbreviation. An example is the American > Institute of Physics, or AIP. But there are a few cases where the > abbreviation is the primary title. E.g. JAAPA, or the Journal of the > American Academy of Physician Assistants. > > CSL offers the cs:title element, and since CSL 1.0.1, also > cs:title-short > (http://citationstyles.org/downloads/release-notes-csl101.html#short-title). > Currently I almost only use cs:title, starting with the primary title, > followed by the (un)abbreviated version in parentheses, e.g.: > > <title>American Institute of Physics (AIP)</title> > and > <title>JAAPA (Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants)</title> > > This is handy because http://www.zotero.org/styles only shows and > searches the contents of the cs:title field, but obviously we're > clumping two metadata fields together. Somewhat cleaner would be: > > <title>American Institute of Physics</title> > <title-short>AIP</title-short> > and > <title>JAAPA (Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants)</title> > <title-short>JAAPA</title-short> > > but this would require some changes to the Zotero Style Repository to > keep styles findable. Does anybody have an opinion on the desired path > forward? > > Rintze > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel -- Charles Parnot [email protected] twitter: @cparnot http://mekentosj.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
