On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> COinS are still needed, in particular in situations in which multiple >> resources are displayed on a page (like, for instance, in the search >> results pages of most online systems or on pages such as >> http://citeulike.org, or in a list of references such as in the >> "references" section of many Wikipedia pages.) > > JSON is perfectly capable of returning a list of things. > True, but that's besides the point. The metadata needs to be related to some element on the page, such as the text in a reference. The most natural way to do this (and COinS allows this) is to place the COinS next to (for instance) the reference to which it refers. - Godmar