This is great, Rintze, thanks so much for all the hard work! I agree with all your comments too.
Regarding the script: it's a nice way to maintain dependent style in a more controlled way. Even if updating the journal list (in tab-delimited text files) and running the script can sometimes take longer than tweaking the one affected style, it's still worth the extra effort, as it means better maintained dependent in the future. I wonder if this logic could be pushed further in the future, by having an even easier way to edit the dependent list without having to touch any of the XML directly. Sometimes, the best tool for the job is a spreadsheet (though Excel can be very dangerous to use, as it tends to interpret ISSN as dates). In any case, you can all take time to look into how the script works. You can just edit the tab-delimited list of journals, and edit the template, and then run the script. CSS files are created locally, and are then ready to be copied into the CSL repo. I have just added better documentation on how that works: https://github.com/citation-style-language/utilities/tree/master/generate_dependent_styles Charles On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Charles Parnot [email protected] twitter: @cparnot http://mekentosj.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
