Just to bring things back to where (I think) we started. I think people are talking about three separate things here: * URIs for bibliographic works (which, as Karen pointed out, are missing some crucial bits of info like page numbers) * Actual text representations of a citation in a variety of thick-book-specified formats (e.g., ALA, MLA) * The cites/cited-by graph for everything everywhere. I understood the original post to be about the latter. E.g., if every book, chapter, section, and article actually had a DOI, then we could build a doi[1] references doi[2] graph and be done with it. Since everything doesn't have a DOI, the question is in two parts: (a) how do we algorithmically generate unique URIs in a way that guarantees preservation of the identity relationship, and (b) how do we actually generate/store/query the resulting graph. Jodi, is any of this correct? On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Stuart, > > Sorry, I didn't mean to discount citation representations along other > content-negotiable dimensions. It seems likely that BCP-47 < > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646> will eventually be upgraded to > recognize signwriting. If so, my URI pattern suggestion could be extended to > support language, script, etc. like so: > > http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt > > In FRBR, serials are recognized as a distinct class so I assume this URI > pattern could be applied to suit all: > > http://example.org/serial/2/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt (text/plain) > > Jeff > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > > stuart yeates > > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 4:14 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] "universal citation index" > > > > Young,Jeff (OR) wrote: > > > http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-apa.txt (text/plain) > > > > The problem I have with the use of (text/plain) is that too many > > platforms still assume / default to latin1 for text/plain. While this > > appears to be reducing, with signwriting still coming through the > > standards pipeline we're not out of the woods yet. > > > > And yes, there are serials in signwriting. > > > > cheers > > stuart > > -- > > Stuart Yeates > > http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre > > http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository > -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library