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<entry-title> Citation microformat efforts </entry-title>

This wiki page outlines the overall effort to develop a citation microformat per the process.

We are documenting current examples of cites/citations on the web today, their implicit/explicit schemas, and current cite/citation formats, with the intent of creating a citation microformat based on that research.

Copyright

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• Tantek: I release all my contributions to this specification into the public domain and I encourage the other authors to do so as well.
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• ... feel free to similarly add yourself if you're in the pre-2007-12-29 edit history, and preferably add the PD template to your user page e.g. see User:Tantek for an example to edit/copy-paste.

It's been long enough that we should begin going through the edit history and removing/replacing pre-2007-12-29 content in order to bring this page fully into the public domain. Tantek 00:53, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

• PD cleared from beginning to 2006-02-14T16:59:21
• To Do: clear edits from 2006-02-14T16:59:22 to 2007-06-26T21:55:41 (some of those edits may have ended up in other pages like citation-examples, citation-formats, citation-brainstorming so be sure to check to see if contributions propagated there).
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Once the entire history has been PD-cleared, we can remove the Authors and Copyright sections, and simply include the PD template {{cc-pd-license}} instead.

Example Citations

Citation Examples are citations found in the wild that could benefit from semantic mark-up. This is a growing list of examples from all sorts of places including W3C specifications, RFCs and others. These are the examples which will determine the schema for the citation microformat.

Known Citation Formats

The Citation Formats Page will be a running tab of known formats for publishing citations.

It could be useful to create a chart of how each value from the implicit schema determined by the citation-examples is represented in each format, and what formats have additional properties that do not map between them. (For example, Format1 calls 'author' 'author', in format2 'author' is called 'writer'. etc)

Brainstorming

• citation-brainstorming

Issues

The citation-issues page is intended to capture ongoing issues.

To Do

• Using existing class names and creating new names, create property names for the profile
• Based on implicit schemas in citation-examples, and terms from one or more citation-formats, do some citation-brainstorming for a simple citation microformat.
• Create additional strawman proposals

Modularity

This microformat should be developed as a module that can be used in other microformats. Once developed and flushed out, citation references could easily be used for publications on a Resume/CV (e.g. in an hResume), therefore the citation microformat would be a module (subset) of all the possible Resume Values.

Other Microformats that could use the Citation Module

• hAtom, e.g. inside of blog posts to infer a structure of which posts are about which other posts.
• hResume
• work-of-art

Other microformats that the Citation Module could/should re-use

• hCard encodings for things like Author, Publisher (people and companies)
• hAtom encodings for author/date-time properties
• rel-tag and "category" encoding for keywords, if any
• rel-license encoding for copyright, if any

References

Informative References

Most of these should be moved to citation-formats and documented accordingly.

• COinS
• XMLResume: if part of the drive for citations is for publications for a resume/CV then some of this information could be useful
• CiteUlike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading
• Connotea is a scientific bookmarking service from Nature.
• OpenURL with Autodiscovery
• "Gather, Create, Share" and "Personal Collection Systems" memes, and systems implementing either or both
• Metadata Object Description Schema developed by the Library of Congress
• Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata
• BibTeX reference from Dana Jacobsen
• RIS Format Specification from Thomson ResearchSoft, makers of ReferenceManager
• Zotero - "Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources"
• DOI (CrossRef Guidelines for use of DOIs in citations)
• INFO URI (URI scheme for representing legacy namespaces)
• ISBN (ISBN on Wikipedia)
• ISSN (ISSN on Wikipedia)
• Open Citation Project - OpCit, a three year (1999-2002)R&D project funded by the Joint NSF - JISC International Digital Libraries Research Programme.
• DocBook (markup langauige for books); DocBook on Wikipedia
• RDA: Resource Description and Access

See Also

• citation
• citation-examples
• citation-examples-markup
• citation-formats
• citation-brainstorming
• citation-faq
• citation-issues
• Strawman microformats:
  • hCite
  • h3988 (brainstorming, issues)