On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Jakob Voss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you want to put bibliographic metadata > into twitter annotations (good idea) you first need to clarify the basic > purpose of embedding this information. I see two of them: > > I. Identification: To identify other tweets and resources that refer to the > same publication > > II. Description: To nicely show which publication someone refers to. I think this is right. I wonder, would you consider a potential use case for Description to also provide machine readable data for a resource when a standard identifier is not known? It would be interesting to explore what identifiers + csl (and other options) would look like in a twitter annotation if you had time to mock something up in a wiki somewhere :-) //Ed [1] http://citationstyles.org/citation-style-language/schema/