Re: "universal citation index"

Since noone has mentioned it yet, and it seems like it might be relevant, it may be worth looking at the CITO (Citation Ontology) (see http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2008/publications/Shotton_ISMB_BioOntology_CiTO_final_postprint.pdf and http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2009/citobase/cito-20091124-1.4/cito-content/owldoc/)

It is important to note that CITO describes the nature of a citation, as opposed to describing the thing cited. It also suggests a different angle on what a citation is - that is a citation is only a citation in context, otherwise it is simply a description of something.

Owen

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On 20 Jul 2010, at 22:53, Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:

> I suspect this discussion happened on code4lib before the thread got
> cross-posting to LLD XG where I first saw it.
> 
> There are undoubtedly a ton of diverse use cases, but that doesn't mean
> APIs are the best solution. Here are some spitball possibilities for
> "not just manifestations" and "we need page numbers".
> 
> http://example.org/frbr:serial/2/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt
> http://example.org/frbr:manifestation/1/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt?xyz:st
> artPage=5&xyz:endPage=6  
> 
> I'm imagining an xyz ontology with startPage and endPage, but we can
> surely create it if something doesn't already exist.
> 
> Jeff
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Morris [mailto:tfmorris@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:37 PM
>> To: Young,Jeff (OR)
>> Cc: Karen Coyle; Jodi Schneider; public-lld; Code for Libraries; Brian
>> Mingus
>> Subject: Re: "universal citation index"
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org>
>> wrote:
>>> In terms of Linked Data, it should make sense to treat citations as
>>> text/plain variant representations of a FRBR Manifestation.
>> 
>> As Karen mentioned, many types of citation need more information than
>> just the manifestation.  You also need pages numbers, etc.
>> 
>> Tom
> 
> 
>

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