I have added COinS tags to the two most common Wikipedia citation templates, {{Cite book}} and {{Cite journal}}, so when people cite something using one of these templates a COinS tag will be generated after it.
So if you go to any major article that references books or journals (like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian>), you should see COinS tags in the <em>References</em> section, next to each reference, so you can visit your library's copy of a journal article that we cited to check our facts, etc.
This won't be the case for <em>all</em> books or journals, though; only those that use the citation templates <http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Template:Cite_book> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Template:Cite_journal> But these two are very common.
I'm not sure if I got everything right. If you see an error in the encoding of the COinS tag, please point it out on my talk page <http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Omegatron> Especially PMIDs.
Caveat: There's no way to do any sort of string processing, so if someone includes things in the fields that aren't meant to be in the equivalent OpenURL fields, there's nothing we can currently do about it. For instance, if someone enters a link within the title field, the COinS tag will have brackets in it. See my examples of unlinked and linked title tags:
It seems that resolvers can find the articles in most cases, anyway, though. In the future I hope to have a markup stripping tag to make this even better:
It just contains the ISBN that is passed to the Book sources page, as that's all we can really do with the tools given to users, but that's better than nothing.
Oh. Is this <http://gcs-pcs-list.googlegroups.com/web/coins- transparent.gif> an official logo or something? Would it be appropriate in the Wikipedia article about COinS? <http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS>
Somehow I missed the existence of this graphic. Way back when, there was discussion about how COinS needs a logo- like those RSS logos.
I suggest that this graphic be acclaimed the official graphic-for-purposes-of-slide-presentations-on-COinS
At 1:26 AM +0000 2/13/07, Omegatron wrote:
>Oh. Is this <http://gcs-pcs-list.googlegroups.com/web/coins- >transparent.gif> an official logo or something? Would it be >appropriate in the Wikipedia article about COinS? <http:// >en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS>
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> I have added COinS tags to the two most common Wikipedia citation > templates, {{Cite book}} and {{Cite journal}}, so when people cite > something using one of these templates a COinS tag will be generated > after it.
> So if you go to any major article that references books or journals > (like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian>), you should see COinS > tags in the <em>References</em> section, next to each reference, so > you can visit your library's copy of a journal article that we cited > to check our facts, etc.
This is great! I've already started hyping this in a podcast interview that will be well-heard. :)
Thanks for your work on this, and for updating us.
> Oh. Is this <http://gcs-pcs-list.googlegroups.com/web/coins- > transparent.gif> an official logo or something? Would it be > appropriate in the Wikipedia article about COinS? <http:// > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS>
This logo was created by Andrew Forman, who gave me permission, at least, to show it publicly during talks while I speak about COinS (which I've done repeatedly). I think it's safe to presume he'd be happy to see it more widely used, although I think he's no longer active in this community due to job/life changes.
If anybody knows how to reach him, please forward this so he can confirm and we can be sure?
>> I have added COinS tags to the two most common Wikipedia citation >> templates, {{Cite book}} and {{Cite journal}}, so when people cite >> something using one of these templates a COinS tag will be generated >> after it.
>> So if you go to any major article that references books or journals >> (like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian>), you should see COinS >> tags in the <em>References</em> section, next to each reference, so >> you can visit your library's copy of a journal article that we cited >> to check our facts, etc.
> This is great! I've already started hyping this in a podcast > interview that will be well-heard. :)
> Thanks for your work on this, and for updating us.
And don't forget - if you do want to cite a journal article on Wikipedia (well, biomedical journal article at least), you can export a correctly-formatted citation for Wikipedia from HubMed using unAPI... http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001408.html
Alright. I went ahead and added a COinS tag to Wikipedia's automatically-generated "Cite this article" page, which applies to the article itself; not the references. The intent is to act as metadata to allow the citation information to be read by automated tools, not to resolve it (since the article revision already has a URL). I just used the journal format as no one really made up their mind about which format is the most appropriate; we can always change it. Here is the code I used:
>Alright. I went ahead and added a COinS tag to Wikipedia's >automatically-generated "Cite this article" page, which applies to the >article itself; not the references. The intent is to act as metadata >to allow the citation information to be read by automated tools, not >to resolve it (since the article revision already has a URL). I just >used the journal format as no one really made up their mind about >which format is the most appropriate; we can always change it. Here >is the code I used:
On Mar 20, 4:49 pm, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> That's good; but I believe that the data and COinS mark-up should be on > the page itself
Of course, but that would require changes to Mediawiki. We're not going to add them manually to each page. After we make sure we have the COinS tag on the "Cite this article" page correctly formatted, we should file a feature request:
In message <1174441805.916758.289...@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>, Omegatron <omegat...@gmail.com> writes
>On Mar 20, 4:49 pm, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: >> That's good; but I believe that the data and COinS mark-up should be on >> the page itself
>Of course, but that would require changes to Mediawiki.
On Mar 21, 10:32 am, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> >page correctly formatted, we should file a feature request:
> By "we" I assume you're volunteering ;-)
By "we" I mean I'm volunteering, but don't wait for me to get around to it. :-) We need to decide what we want, first, though. I've been told that RDF or unAPI would be better for the article's self- description:
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