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

[Michael McCracken]

On 8/17/06, David Osolkowski <qidydl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/16/06, Michael McCracken <michael.mccracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I missed that, it does. I think we'd have to use it as a child
> > element on the link:
> > <a href="link-to-fulltext" class="identifier"><abbr class="format"
> > title="application/pdf">PDF</abbr> full text link</a>
>
> I think it would be better to mark that up as <a
> href="link-to-fulltext" class="identifier" type="application/pdf">full
> text link</a>.  No sense reinventing things that already exist in
> HTML.

Ah, OK - I'd either forgotten or never knew about the type attribute
for anchors - whichever makes me look dumber.

That seems unambiguous, but not complete. In a parser, I could look
for links with the PDF type and assume they're the full text link, but
what if it's postscript, or an image?

It happens often that for a given reference, I have two links - the
link to a page where it can be found (example: a doi.org URL), and a
link to a page where the full text can be downloaded, which may be
behind a subscription wall.

So, if the free canonical URL for a paper (the DOI) is HTML, and the
paper itself is HTML, which link should my software automatically
download for you to read? That's the problem I'm concerned with here.

Cheers,
-mike

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Michael McCracken
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