[uf-discuss] citation: another example of practice in the wild

[Michael McCracken]

On 8/16/06, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On 8/16/06 5:50 PM, "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/16/06, Michael McCracken <michael.mccracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I tried my imagination on one of my straw examples. Does this fit what
> >> you were expecting?
> >
> > In general, yes, though I'm not that comfortable commenting on the
> > details of microfomrat design (exactly how best to encode the class
> > attributes and such).
>
> The two key steps are
>
> 1. determining which aspects to encode (from the implied 80/20 schema of the
> real world examples that have been documented).  Bruce and others have
> documented how hard the "80/20" is to determine in this particular domain.
> The "hierarchical" nature that is often required as has been pointed out
> points to a need for perhaps solving a *simpler* problem first, that of
> specifying those particular components that may be used in aggregate to
> compose a hierarchy.
>
> 2. for picking actual class names, that's quite a challenge since there are
> multiple reasonable standards to choose from.  Here is some background
> methodology:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/naming-principles
>
>
> >> One thing I noticed was that there seemed to be no DC term for what I
> >> had as 'instantiation', or the link to a copy of the actual resource.
> >> Maybe there's somewhere else we can borrow a term from, or was I
> >> missing a good choice from DC?
> >
> > I don't have much experience with using them, but
> > dc:format/dcq:hasFormat I think covers this.
>
> FWIW, I don't think DC provides a particularly good set of names, far too
> theoretically designed, and eclipsed in practical usage by several of the
> other established formats (OpenURL, Bibtex).

I'd have to agree - during this little exercise I had to keep the list
of terms open and keep referring to it. Common bibtex terms are
sometimes ambiguous, but are usually much more obvious and familiar.

I'm a little ignorant of OpenURL, but after a quick scan it seems to
be pretty intuitive as well.

-mike

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Michael McCracken
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