Ed Summers wrote:
>> II. Description: To nicely show which publication someone refers to.
>
> I think this is right. I wonder, would you consider a potential use
> case for Description to also provide machine readable data for a
> resource when a standard identifier is not known?
There are lookup services to get a standard identifier when only some
bibliographic data is known - mainly OpenURL. I have not investigated
whether you can easily map CSL format to OpenURL or if you need to also
embed the OpenURL as twitter annotation. However all lookup services
that I know are either crapy or proprietary or both. This is not a
technical issue but just based on a lack of data (hopefully to get
better with more linked open data). Given enough open bibliographic data
anyone can create a lookup service where you throw in some title, author
and this stuff and get back an identified record. I think there also are
some services called "library catalog" for this purpose.
Anyway this os nothing that can be solved with a bibliographic data
format alone. Either you have a standard identifier or you have not. If
you have not, you must rely on third party services that run independent
of your bibliographic data.
> It would be interesting to explore what identifiers + csl (and other
> options) would look like in a twitter annotation if you had time to
> mock something up in a wiki somewhere :-)
I summarized my findings on CSL at
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Citation_Style_Language
and included some ideas of CSL and other data in twitter annotations.
Feel free to modify!
Cheers
Jakob
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