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Funny this topic comes up right now. A few days ago, Wikipedia (arguably the biggest provider of COiNS) decided to discontinue it because they've discovered that generating the COinS using their decrepit infrastructure uses up so much processing power that attempts to edit pages with lots of citations time out. See [1, 2]. That said, there is some movement to restore them once they get their act together and improve their infrastructure. The big irony is that this move was driven by editors and regular contributors (it doesn't affect anyone not "signed into" Wikipedia) that is, exactly those users who *ought* to make the most regular use of COinS to actually retrieve cited material... Just by coincidence, we finally engaged on a project to better process COinS. As is, we're just linking to the OpenURL resolver, which is hit and miss - that said, it's a facility that's used. We're now keeping statistics, and for just 10 editions we've had over 5,000 clicks in the last three month alone. But we have additional options - Link/360 being one for SS clients, and Summon another. We think we can do a much better job at resolving COinS with a combination of these services. None of this depends on the specific COinS format, of course - any suitable microformat would work, too. - Godmar [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19262 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Citation/core#Disappointed On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Bigwood, David <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > I've used the COinS Generator at OCLC for years. Now it is gone. Any > suggestions on how I can get an occasional COinS for use in our > bibliography? Do any of the citation managers generate COinS? > > > > Or is this just an old unused metadata format that should be replaced by > something else? > > > > Thanks, > > Dave Bigwood > > [log in to unmask] > > Lunar and Planetary Institute >