[uf-discuss] COinS information?

[Ross Singer]

Ok, I'll try this again...
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Adrienne,

As someone that was actively involved in creating COinS, it's not a
microformat.

Most of the reasons are semantic, some are pedantic, but it boils down to:
1.  Microformats have a process and COinS was developed outside that process
2.  COinS hides its data in an attribute -- ufs don't like hidden data
3.  I think there's a potential conflict, eventually, between hCite and
COinS, but let's burn that bridge when we get to it.

That being said, COinS have merit with or without the microformat
community:  however, they aren't microformats.

If you haven't joined the gcs-pcs list (
http://groups.google.com/group/gcs-pcs-list), that's a good place to talk
about COinS (since it's where it was conceived).
-Ross.

On 2/8/07, Adrienne Travis <adrienne.travis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hope that this isn't something that's already been referred to ad
> nauseam; i'm a newbie on the list. I just found out about this, and it
> SEEMS like a microformat, and worth including on the wiki:
>
> http://ocoins.info/
>
> It's a way of including structured bibliographic data for a page in a
> very compact format.
>
> --Adrienne Travis

On 2/8/07, Adrienne Travis <adrienne.travis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope that this isn't something that's already been referred to ad
> nauseam; i'm a newbie on the list. I just found out about this, and it
> SEEMS like a microformat, and worth including on the wiki:
>
> http://ocoins.info/
>
> It's a way of including structured bibliographic data for a page in a
> very compact format.
>
> --Adrienne Travis
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