CSL was originally developed as an Open Office add-on using, I think, CiteProc. http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/citeproc/ http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/citeproc/index.html CiteProc says it supports MODS. [Mind you, I haven't used any of these components.] Tom On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Andrew Ashton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks, I have heard of CSL but never really worked with it. Do you know if > it is specifically geared toward Zotero's SQLite data structures? We're > interested in generating citations in web apps from a native XML database of > MODS, preferably without going through Zotero. > > I've experimented with generating the citations from our eXist-based system > by way of Zotero, but we run into genre-authority issues. Zotero's default > MODS import translator expects <mods:genre authority="marcgt"> and our > system uses other authorities. Granted, I'm working off of some older > Zotero code, so I may not have the most recent info. > > -Andy > > > On 1/12/09 10:51 AM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> What I've been meaning to investigate more fully is the "Citation Style >> Language" (CSL) which is used by Zotero for citation outputting--there >> are some other non-Zotero engines for CSL, but I'm not sure how >> mature/ready for production any of them are. The Zotero engine is of >> course in Javascript, so inconvenient (although not impossible) to >> re-use that code a server side app. >> >> I haven't really investigated what's going on with CSL, but that seems >> to be the 'right' way to deal with this to me. Once you have a CSL >> engine incorporated in your app, you can output not just in Chicago or >> MLA, but any citation style now or in the future that Zotero (or anyone >> else) provides a CSL file for. Thanks to Zotero (and it's partners?) for >> developing this re-useable CSL format instead of just a custom Zotero >> solution. >> >> Jonathan >> >> Andrew Ashton wrote: >>> Can someone point me at any good, freely-available stylesheets to convert >>> MODS to Chicago or MLA formatted citations? It seems like something that >>> should be readily available, but I can¹t seem to find it. I¹d rather not >>> reinvent the wheel if possible... >>> >>> Thanks, Andy >>> >>> >