I'm not sure if a COinS with just author information, rather than a 
citation to a particular bibliographic resource, is actually of use.  
The OpenURL SAP profiles, which COinS works with, wasn't really designed 
for that. I'd work up a clear use case before expending development 
energy on it.

There might be a better microformat-ish way to embed author information 
in a structured way in XML, perhaps RDFa (says he who knows almost 
nothing about RDFa).

Jonathan

Karen Coyle wrote:
> Thanks, Eric (and all!) - by non-book you mean other formats (films, 
> music, etc.?) OL doesn't have records for those (yet). There is an 
> author record, but I'm not sure how it might be used (it doesn't have 
> a link to LCNA). I supposed a COinS with the author name and dates 
> would be of some use... ? If anyone is interested, the list of 
> elements are at: http://openlibrary.org/type
>
> Each "type" could have its own COinS if it makes sense.
>
> kc
>
> Eric Hellman wrote:
>> Not just the book pages, I might add! Wikipedia probably has the most
>> non-book COinS deployed; Worldcat is the premier site for book COinS.
>>
>> A recent but impressive addition to the COinSiverse is 
>> ResearchBlogging- see
>> http://ResearchBlogging.org
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On 12/1/08 11:08 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I have a question to ask for the Open Library folks and I couldn't 
>>> quite
>>> figure out where to ask it. This seems like a good place.
>>>
>>> Would it be useful to embed COinS in the book pages of the Open 
>>> Library?
>>> Does anyone think they might make use of them?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> kc
>>>     
>>
>> Eric Hellman, Director                      OCLC New Jersey
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>> tel 1-973-509-7800                          Bloomfield, NJ 07003
>> http://nj.oclc.org/
>>
>>
>>   
>
>

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