Hi all, Just an update of what I've been up to lately:
Over the past three months or so, I've checked all dependent styles to see if I could identify their journals. I also checked if each journal was still active, added missing ISSNs, marked up eISSNs as such, and added default-locales and documentation links. This was prompted by the rather poor state of all the "vancouver" dependents. Simon added these a few years ago based on an official list (http://www.icmje.org/journals.html), but it's become quite clear to me that this list is poorly curated. E.g., we had a whole bunch of styles for journals that were long discontinued (which went as far back as the eighties), and I must have deleted over a 100 styles. Many styles that had "vancouver" as the parent also needed to point to a different Vancouver variant or a wholly different style. It was rather labor intensive, but I think our dependent styles are now in much better shape. Going forward, I would like to become a bit more strict about the dependent styles that go into the repository. I plan to write an extension to the CSL schema so that we can use Travis CI to check for additional requirements. I would like to require each dependent style to have a default-locale (possible exceptions for multilingual styles), a documentation link, and a self link. I also would like to disallow having two (or more) instances of cs:issn, since generally one should be a cs:eissn. You might also have noticed that Charles added some Springer styles, which bumped us to having over 4000 CSL styles (of which 800 are independent). Charles has made a nice script that allows us to quickly create dependent styles from just a template and a CSV file with (at a minimum) journal titles and ISSNs (see https://github.com/citation-style-language/utilities/tree/master/generate_dependent_styles ). In addition to the Springer styles, Charles and I have prepared metadata for over a dozen of other publishers. I hope we can get similar data for other publishers (maybe Elsevier?). Finally, today I added "self" links to all dependent styles. I did this since Zotero 4.0 will offer automatic updating of CSL styles, and will follow the "self" link of styles to find style updates. Best, Rintze ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
