[uf-discuss] Citation IRC Meet-up Time

[Alf Eaton]

On 10 Apr 2006, at 11:09, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> 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.

I think draft is actually the word I was looking for. I think most  
people agreed that the background research and documentation had  
covered everything and had become sprawling enough that it was time  
to condense it into something implementable.

alf.