I mean, really, if the folks at RefWorks, EndNote, Papers, Zotero and LibX don't have crash programs underway to integrate Twitter clients into their software to send and receive reference metadata payloads they can use in the Twitter annotation field, they really ought to hire me to come and bash some sense into them. Really.
I still think by-reference payloads would got the farthest, as described at
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-shall-we-link.html
would go the farthest, but surely these folks know very well what they can send and receive.
Eric
On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Jakob Voss wrote:
> Hi
>
> it's funny how quickly you vote against BibTeX, but at least it is a format that is frequently used in the wild to create citations. If you call BibTeX undocumented and garbage then how do you call MARC which is far more difficult to make use of?
>
> My assumption was that there is a specific use case for bibliographic data in twitter annotations:
>
> I. Identifiy publication => this can *only* be done seriously with identifiers like ISBN, DOI, OCLCNum, LCCN etc.
>
> II. Deliver a citation => use a citation-oriented format (BibTeX, CSL, RIS)
>
> I was not voting explicitly for BibTeX but at least there is a large community that can make use of it. I strongly favour CSL (http://citationstyles.org/) because:
>
> - there is a JavaScript CSL-Processor. JavaScript is kind of a punishment but it is the natural environment for the Web 2.0 Mashup crowd that is going to implement applications that use Twitter annotations
>
> - there are dozens of CSL citation styles so you can display a citation in any way you want
>
> As Ross pointed out RIS would be an option too, but I miss the easy open source tools that use RIS to create citations from RIS data.
>
> Any other relevant format that I know (Bibont, MODS, MARC etc.) does not aim at identification or citation at the first place but tries to model the full variety of bibliographic metadata. If your use case is
>
> III. Provide semantic properties and connections of a publication
>
> Then you should look at the Bibliographic Ontology. But III does *not* "just subsume" usecase II. - it is a different story that is not beeing told by normal people but only but metadata experts, semantic web gurus, library system developers etc. (I would count me to this groups). If you want such complex data then you should use other systems but Twitter for data exchange anyway.
>
> A list of CSL metadata fields can be found at
>
> http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#appendices
>
> and the JavaScript-Processor (which is also used in Zotero) provides more information for developers: http://groups.google.com/group/citeproc-js
>
> Cheers
> Jakob
>
> P.S: An example of a CSL record from the JavaScript client:
>
> {
> "title": "True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946",
> "author": [ {
> "family": "Razlogova",
> "given": "Elena"
> } ],
> "container-title": "American Quarterly",
> "volume": "58",
> "page": "137-158",
> "issued": { "date-parts": [ [2006, 3] ] },
> "type": "article-journal"
> }
>
>
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