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

[Lund, B. <b....@na...>]

Hi Robert,

On 23/5/06 12:13, "Robert Forkel" <xro...@go...> wrote:
> 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 you
>> retaining copyright) as part of the next open source release of Connotea
>> Code.
> cool. yep, GPL is fine with me.

Excellent, thanks.
 
>>> 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.  That,
>> 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.

Yep, that's exactly how we're doing it.  What's your other application, out
of interest?
 
>> Looking at your plug-in for Living Reviews, I see that it gets the metadata
>> 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="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="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.

Great.  Please drop me a note when you do, and we'll start experimenting
with it.

>> 
>> One of the ideas we're playing with here is to move towards autodiscoverable
>> metadata for articles bookmarked on Connotea.
>> ...
>> 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.

Yep, you're not the only person I've heard say that.  Connotea's an ideal
use-case for this kind of data publishing.

Thanks again,
Ben


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