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 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> 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. 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