Have you looked the the citation microformat ( http://microformats.org/wiki/citation) ? Don't know where work with this stands but it seems pretty interesting to me. Karen On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Mark A. Matienzo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > I'd love to get some people together to agree on a standard book > > annotation format, so two people can tweet about the same book or > > other library item, and they or someone else can pull that together. > > > > I'm inclined to start adding it to the "I'm talking about" and "I'm > > adding" links on LibraryThing. I imagine it could be easily added to > > many library applications too—anywhere there is or could be a "share > > this on Twitter" link, including OPACs, citation managers, library > > event feeds, etc. > > By this description alone it seems to me that OpenURL, perhaps > implemented as some variation on COinS, would make the most sense. > With OpenURL, the fields have already been defined. Perhaps the > underlying JSON for the annotation could look something like the > following: > > { 'annotations': > { 'z3988': > { 'contextobject': > > 'ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.issn=1045-4438'} > } > } > > Additionally, one could specify an optional resolver parameter if so > desired. > > Mark A. Matienzo > Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives > Yale University Library >