COinS 1.0
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.
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need to fix the plugin- should be class="Z3988" not class="Z39.88"
<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. [...]