on the Zotero side this is handled with a single list from MEDLINE - the Medline data is under some type of open license, so no legal issue there. (The file is JSON - I think Zotero also has an algorithm to abbreviate unknown journal titles, but I don't know that for sure).
We can obviously host list(s) on CSL and I actually intended to do this at one time - that's why we have https://github.com/citation-style-language/abbreviations which is empty. Feel free to push stuff to it. For me abbreviations become most interesting from a CSL perspective if we either a) we have multiple lists for different sets of journals (e.g. Endnote says they have 11 different ones or so, I don't know how different they are) and even more so if b) we decide to include the information of which list to use in citation styles (which - if there are multiple lists - I think would be ideal). For that we'd need, again, a better sense of the differences out there. On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Carles Pina <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > My next project in Mendeley is to add "Journal Abbreviations". > Currently Mendeley Desktop has a workaround but it doesn't have proper > support (with UI, etc.). > > In this feedback page: > http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/83173-journal-abbreviations > > some users has posted a file with the format: > FULL_JOURNAL_NAME <tab> abbreviated > > See for example: > http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/75692408/AbbreviationsFixMendeley.zip > > It seems that the users has been sending this file between them and improving. > > I don't really know from where the original data came but I know that > has been used for a while for many users. > > Questions: > a) Should the citation styles github repository contain a list of > journal abbreviations? We have citations and locales, so it may be > interesting for the community. > b) Could we use without legal problems the above file in the > citation-styles project? Mendeley hasn't done it, it has evolved from > different sources. Maybe it comes from places like > http://www.library.uq.edu.au/faqs/endnote/journal_terms.html but I > haven't checked. > > Regards, > > -- > Carles Pina | Software Engineer > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/Carles-Pina/ > > Mendeley Limited | London, UK | www.mendeley.com > Registered in England and Wales | Company Number 6419015 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel -- Sebastian Karcher Ph.D. Candidate Department of Political Science Northwestern University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
