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I'm not sure if a COinS with just author information, rather than a citation to a particular bibliographic resource, is actually of use. The OpenURL SAP profiles, which COinS works with, wasn't really designed for that. I'd work up a clear use case before expending development energy on it. There might be a better microformat-ish way to embed author information in a structured way in XML, perhaps RDFa (says he who knows almost nothing about RDFa). Jonathan Karen Coyle wrote: > Thanks, Eric (and all!) - by non-book you mean other formats (films, > music, etc.?) OL doesn't have records for those (yet). There is an > author record, but I'm not sure how it might be used (it doesn't have > a link to LCNA). I supposed a COinS with the author name and dates > would be of some use... ? If anyone is interested, the list of > elements are at: http://openlibrary.org/type > > Each "type" could have its own COinS if it makes sense. > > kc > > Eric Hellman wrote: >> Not just the book pages, I might add! Wikipedia probably has the most >> non-book COinS deployed; Worldcat is the premier site for book COinS. >> >> A recent but impressive addition to the COinSiverse is >> ResearchBlogging- see >> http://ResearchBlogging.org >> >> Eric >> >> >> On 12/1/08 11:08 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> >>> I have a question to ask for the Open Library folks and I couldn't >>> quite >>> figure out where to ask it. This seems like a good place. >>> >>> Would it be useful to embed COinS in the book pages of the Open >>> Library? >>> Does anyone think they might make use of them? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> kc >>> >> >> Eric Hellman, Director OCLC New Jersey >> [log in to unmask] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 >> tel 1-973-509-7800 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 >> http://nj.oclc.org/ >> >> >> > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu