In terms of Linked Data, it should make sense to treat citations as text/plain variant representations of a FRBR Manifestation. The linking aspects can be handled in HTML and RDF representations. http://example.org/manifestation/1 (303 redirect to...) http://example.org/manifestation/1/ (Generic resource 200 conneg to...) http://example.org/manifestation/1/default.html (text/html;application/xhtml+xml) http://example.org/manifestation/1/frbr.rdf (application/rdf+xml) http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-apa.txt (text/plain) http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-chicago.txt (text/plain) http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-mla.txt (text/plain) http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-harvard.txt (text/plain) http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-turabian.txt (text/plain) etc. Since there are multiple text/plain representations of the generic resource being made available, conneg for Accept: text/plain could return 300 (Multiple Choices) with links to each. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Karen Coyle > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:21 PM > To: Jodi Schneider > Cc: public-lld; Code for Libraries; Brian Mingus > Subject: Re: "universal citation index" > > Quoting Jodi Schneider <[log in to unmask]>: > > > There've been some interesting discussions on Wiki-research-l about > > citations lately, including a post today about using a centralized, > > semantic wiki as a repository for all the world's citations, using > > infobox-based citation templates, and expressing "cited by" > > relationships as backlinks. > > > First, I would like to know what folks mean by "citations" -- from the > posts it seems that they are talking about it in terms of 'Science > Citation Index' - which resources cite other resources? > > I always have a hard time figuring out how citation and bibliography > connect. In libraries we create bibliographic data that has many of > the same elements as a citation, but not all (e.g. lacks the page > number of the cited text). Citations are mini-bibliographic records > and haven't yet started to have some key elements such as ISBNs/ISSNs. > It seems that there should be interlinking between citations and > bibliographic data created for inventory and discovery, but that is > not the case today. It would enhance the citations as well as allow > for discovery in libraries or online. > > I would caution against a single repository for 'all the world's > citations' but look to linking as a better solution. I would also > caution against limiting citations to academic textual materials. It > would be good to know where photographs, illustrations, maps, graphs, > and data have been cited. To include these one would need to have the > expertise of those communities. This leads me to conclude that we > might have many communities of resource description that interact with > citations. > > kc > > -- > Karen Coyle > [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet > >