Dan, could you change the Zotero Style Repository page to match the
search string against the contents of cs:title-short as well? Once
that's done I'll move over the parenthesized abbreviations.

Rintze

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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