Re: "universal citation index"

Quoting Jodi Schneider <jschneider@pobox.com>:

> There've been some interesting discussions on Wiki-research-l about   
> citations lately, including a post today about using a centralized,   
> semantic wiki as a repository for all the world's citations, using   
> infobox-based citation templates, and expressing "cited by"   
> relationships as backlinks.


First, I would like to know what folks mean by "citations" -- from the  
posts it seems that they are talking about it in terms of 'Science  
Citation Index' - which resources cite other resources?

I always have a hard time figuring out how citation and bibliography  
connect. In libraries we create bibliographic data that has many of  
the same elements as a citation, but not all (e.g. lacks the page  
number of the cited text). Citations are mini-bibliographic records  
and haven't yet started to have some key elements such as ISBNs/ISSNs.  
It seems that there should be interlinking between citations and  
bibliographic data created for inventory and discovery, but that is  
not the case today. It would enhance the citations as well as allow  
for discovery in libraries or online.

I would caution against a single repository for 'all the world's  
citations' but look to linking as a better solution. I would also  
caution against limiting citations to academic textual materials. It  
would be good to know where photographs, illustrations, maps, graphs,  
and data have been cited. To include these one would need to have the  
expertise of those communities. This leads me to conclude that we  
might have many communities of resource description that interact with  
citations.

kc

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