I'm going to throw in my two cents.
I dont think (and correct me if i'm wrong) we have mentioned once what
a user might actually put in a twitter annotation. a book title? an
article title? a link?
i think creating some super complicated thing for a twitter annotation
dooms it to failure. after all, its twitter...make it short and
sweet.
also the 1.0 document for OpenURL isn't really that bad (yes I have
read it). a good portion of it is a chart with the different metadata
elements. also open url could conceivably refer to an animal and then
link to a bunch of resources on that animal, but no one has done that.
i don't think that's a problem with OpenURL i think thats a problem
with the metadata sent by vendors to link resolvers and librarians
lack of creativity (yes i did make a ridiculous generalization that
was not intended to offend anyone but inevitably it will). having
been a vendor who has worked with openurl, i know that the informaiton
databases send seriously effects (affects?) what you can actually do
in a link resolver.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Can we just hold a vote or something?
>
> I'm happy to do whatever the community here wants and will actually
> use. I want to do something that will be usable by others. I also
> favor something dead simple, so it will be implemented. If we don't
> reach some sort of conclusion, this is an interesting waste of time. I
> propose only people engaged in doing something along these lines get
> to vote?
>
> Tim
>
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