Re: Citations and references in W3C (including RQTF) publications

Noted! Thanks for that Jason.

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Joshue O’Connor
Director | InterAccess.ie



------ Original Message ------
From "Jason J.G. White" <jason@jasonjgw.com>
To "RQTF" <public-rqtf@w3.org>
Date 20/01/2025, 14:25:50
Subject Citations and references in W3C (including RQTF) publications

>Dear colleagues,
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>My purpose is to make public and to carry forward a conversation 
>started with Janina and Scott recently. We decided it would be 
>worthwhile to inquire whether there is an approach that could be taken 
>to cite references in W3C publications using one of the commonly 
>available bibliographical data formats. Currently, bibliography entries 
>are in a custom SpecRef format designed to cite technical 
>specifications, but not to cite journal literature or other scholarly 
>sources.
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>Based on preliminary observations, BibTeX and RIS bibliography data 
>formats seem to be widely used. Google Scholar, for example, can export 
>references in any of BibTeX, EndNote, RefMan (I think that’s RIS) or 
>RefWorks formats.
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>The goal would be to be able to cite references provided in one of 
>these formats directly in W3C publications, with automatic generation 
>of a suitable citation style and a bibliography entry.
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>Thank you, Janina, for taking up the issue. I appreciate resolution may 
>take time, but it will facilitate work on our Artificial Intelligence 
>and Machine Learning document when we reach the point of reworking the 
>citations and bibliography. I, at least, don’t want to be writing 
>bibliography entries by hand in JSON format.
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>Regards,
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>Jason.
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