Re: [Connotea-code-devel] citation plug-in

[Robert F. <xro...@go...>]

On 5/23/06, Lund, Ben <b....@na...> wrote:
>
> Posting it to this list is fine.  We'll now integrate it into the live
> Connotea.org service and, if you agree, release it under the GPL (with yo=
u
> retaining copyright) as part of the next open source release of Connotea
> Code.
cool. yep, GPL is fine with me.
>
> > i'm also
> > planning on writing another one for arxiv unless anybody else is
> > already doing so. please let me know if there already is one.
>
> Coincidentally we just started working on an arxiv plug-in ourselves.  Th=
at,
> and your new plug-in, should be out in the next week.
>
that's good. coding perl still feels rather uncomfortable to me. do
you get the arxiv metadata via their oai interface? that's what i do
for another application of mine.
>
> Looking at your plug-in for Living Reviews, I see that it gets the metada=
ta
> from an RDF/XML.  Is there any chance that you could influence the Living
> Reviews publishing system such that there are autodiscovery links to that
> file within the HTML for the articles themselves?  I'm thinking something
> like:
>
> <link rel=3D"alternate" type=3D"application/rdf+xml" href=3D"metadata.xml=
" />
we do that already. although, i just noticed, not on the page holding
the frameset, but just on the pages loaded into frames. we'll fix
that.
>
> One of the ideas we're playing with here is to move towards autodiscovera=
ble
> metadata for articles bookmarked on Connotea.  The idea is that instead o=
f
> looking at the URL structure, Connotea has a generic plug-in that looks
> inside the HTML for a <link> to a format that it understands.  Our theory=
 is
> that this will scale better, since publishers can be supported in Connote=
a
> without us or them having to write a special plug-in.  We've started
> tentative experiments in this with the Blog plug-in (
> http://www.connotea.org/news#2006-05-11 ), which follows RSS/Atom
> autodiscovery links.  However, this is still speculative, so the more sit=
es
> that we can use this approach with, the better we can decide if it's the
> right way to go.  What do you think?
this certainly seems to be the way to go. so far, publishing rdf
metadata has been more of an academic sit-up, so i'm happy if it
actually is used.
>
> > regards,
> > robert
>
> Thanks again for contributing this,
>
> All the best,
> Ben
>
>
> ---
> -- Ben Lund
> -- Product Development Manager
> -- Web Publishing
> -- Nature Publishing Group
> -- http://www.connotea.org/user/ben
> -- http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/
>
> ---
>
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