Re: Citation and bibliography technologies - references

Thank you, Ken, for working on this issue - answers appear in-line below.


On 15/5/25 13:14, Ken Franqueiro wrote:
>
> 1. Will each of these records be specifically cited at some point 
> within the document?
Yes, as is standard practice in scholarship and, as I understand it, in 
W3C publications as well.
> 2. Is it expected that the entries currently under the Reference List 
> section will ultimately be generated from the BibTeX output?
>
Yes, we intend to remove the current (manually created) References 
section and to generate the entire bibliography from BibTeX records in a 
later draft. In future publications, we would also use BibTeX records. 
We're trying to eliminate the problem of manually writing and 
maintaining ReSpec JSON records, especially in view of the fact that the 
data can be trivially exported in BibTeX format (and several other 
formats) from public databases such as scholar.google.com. Even if we 
have to correct errors in the entries, it's still less work than 
manually converting everything to a custom (ReSpec) JSON format 
supported by none of the online bibliographical database systems besides 
W3C's own.

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