I agree with Charles. Structured data is better than not. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Charles Parnot <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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