Can you tell me how to legally include more than one author name in an OpenURL context object? I've been a bit confused about this myself, and happen to be dealing with it presently too.

And of course no metadata format has 'all metadata fields', but the interestingly point here is that while SAP1/2  does have a pretty good set of elements  neccessary to _identify_ a citation (it's intended purpose), it is missing a few really important elements for a general purpose citation metadata format to be used for anything in addition to identification. Multiple authors names (seperated into firstname/lastname/etc elements) being one of the primary ones important for just about any citation application that _isn't_ limited to identification. Abstract being another useful for a wide variety of applications.

It's a bit frustrating to me, because it seems to me that with just a few added things, SAP1/2 _could_ be sufficient for a much wider range of applications than it is now. Of course, maybe it just seems that way, in the sense that no matter how much you have it always seems like you need 'just one more'. :)

Jonathan

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>>> Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> 9/28/2007 1:10 PM >>>
On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Steve Toub wrote:

> A reminder that the data model for OpenURL/COinS does not have all
> metadata fields: only one author allowed, no abstract, etc.

That's incorrect; an Openurl context object may contain any number of
author names. (but not parsed author names).

And to be fair, there exists no metadata format that has "all
metadata fields".

Eric