The latent OpenURL idea has cystallized as COinS 1.0. The major change from earlier proposals is to hide the latent OpenURL in the title attribute of a span tag, rather than in the href of an anchor tag. Accordingly, I’ve updated the little WordPress plug-in I wrote to insert OpenURLs in WordPress postings. A sample link follows: [] (as before, you won’t see anything between the square brackets unless you have an activator). The plugin inserts a comment in the span tag containing a link to the spec. Download the new version here. It’s still a minimal implementation of OpenURL 1.0, but it’s a start.
Jul 21
2010
2010
COinS 1.0
<span class=”Z3988″ title=”ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&’ + openurl + ‘”>’ + ‘<!– This is a COinS: see http://ocoins.info/ –>’ + ‘</span>
should fix it.
[...] It is worth mentioning that this problem (facilitating the citation of self-published internet resources in academic bibliographies) is a very specific one – many intelligent people have worked very hard on the larger problems of “citation” online, from the ongoing work of Ted Nelson, to the standards like OpenURL and its embedding in web pages through COinS (which is a WordPress plugin), citationally oriented linkrolling services like CiteULike or Connotea, and smart webcrawling indexers like Google Scholar. [...]
need to fix the plugin- should be class=”Z3988″ not class=”Z39.88″
2005
eric