Have you looked the the citation microformat (
http://microformats.org/wiki/citation) ? Don't know where work with this
stands but it seems pretty interesting to me.

Karen

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Mark A. Matienzo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > I'd love to get some people together to agree on a standard book
> > annotation format, so two people can tweet about the same book or
> > other library item, and they or someone else can pull that together.
> >
> > I'm inclined to start adding it to the "I'm talking about" and "I'm
> > adding" links on LibraryThing. I imagine it could be easily added to
> > many library applications too—anywhere there is or could be a "share
> > this on Twitter" link, including OPACs, citation managers, library
> > event feeds, etc.
>
> By this description alone it seems to me that OpenURL, perhaps
> implemented as some variation on COinS, would make the most sense.
> With OpenURL, the fields have already been defined. Perhaps the
> underlying JSON for the annotation could look something like the
> following:
>
> { 'annotations':
>  { 'z3988':
>    { 'contextobject':
>
> 'ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.issn=1045-4438'}
>  }
> }
>
> Additionally, one could specify an optional resolver parameter if so
> desired.
>
> Mark A. Matienzo
> Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives
> Yale University Library
>