[uf-discuss] Citation IRC Meet-up Time

[Tantek Ç elik]

On 4/10/06 7:13 AM, "Alf Eaton" <lists at hubmed.org> wrote:

> 
> On 10 Apr 2006, at 03:40, Tantek Çelik wrote:
> 
>> On 4/9/06 3:53 PM, "Alf Eaton" <lists at hubmed.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> At the end of the meeting I agreed to make a new wiki page that
>>> summarised the previous discussion and had some examples that could
>>> be a basis for further progress. Here's the page - feel free to edit,
>>> particular with extending the examples to cover other reference
>>> types:
>>> 
>>> http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-recommendation
>> 
>> Alf, thanks very much for writing this up.
>> 
>> As these are notes from a discussion, and I'd like to avoid the
>> confusion
>> with some of the connotations of "recommendation" (i.e. in the W3C
>> sense),
>> I've moved that page here:
>> 
>>  http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-irc-notes-2006-04-09
> 
> Actually the intention was that it be a recommendation (but it
> doesn't have to use that word, obviously), as a step between the
> brainstorming and an actual specification (to tidy everything
> together). Brian was planning on doing IRC notes separately.

Alf, it is premature to be making "recommendations" when the necessary steps
in the process have not yet been completed.  More on the wiki page itself.

With a citation microformat in particular (given the history of so many
different citation format efforts), we must take particular care to follow
the process closely with respect to proper research and documentation so
that a citation microformat doesn't just become another either rarely used
or niche-specific citation format.

Thanks,

Tantek