Hi Rintze, Thanks for your great work! I can start adding more tests for dependent styles as soon as you're ready.
Best, Sylvester On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Rintze Zelle 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
