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Stuart Yeates wrote: > A great deal of heat has been vented in this thread, and at least a > little light. > > I'd like to invite everyone to contribute to the wikipedia page at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL in the hopes that it evolves into a > better overview of the protocol, the ecosystem and their place on th web. > > [Hint: the best heading for a rant wikipedia is 'criticisms' but you'll > still need to reference the key points. Links into this thread count as > references, if you can't find anything else.] Good point - but writing Wikipedia articles is more work than discussing on mailing lists ;-) Instead of improving the OpenURL article I started to add to the more relevant[1] COinS article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS Maybe some of you (Eric Hellman, Richard Cameron, Daniel Chudnov, Ross Singer, Herbert Van de Sompel ...) could fix the history section which I tried to reconstruct from historic sources[2] from the Internet without violating the Wikipedia NPOV which is hard if you write about things you were involved at. Am I right that neither OpenURL nor COinS strictly defines a metadata model with a set of entities/attributes/fields/you-name-it and their definition? Apparently all ContextObjects metadata formats are based on non-normative "implementation guidelines" only ?? Cheers Jakob [1] My bet: What will remain from OpenURL will be "a link server base URL that you attach a COinS to" [2] about five years ago, so its historic in terms of internet ;-) By the way does anyone have a copy of http://dbk.ch.umist.ac.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Metadata_in_HTML ? -- Jakob Voß <[log in to unmask]>, skype: nichtich Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de