Re: Some Design Principles

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote:

With the focus on interchange in mind, some design considerations come
> to mind.
>
>
I am in essentially complete agreement with this mail and many of the
others.



> The first is the scope of the data model for SH. I think that it should
> be the article.


+1


> [...]
>


> Having articles as its scope, the choice of HTML as the baseline format
> should be (hopefully) obvious.
>

That was our 2011 thinking as well


So essentially, I propose that SH be entirely comprised of subsets of
> existing standards, with simple extensibility rules that dictate what
> can be guaranteed to interoperate, and what can be added safely but
> might not be universally understood. This is relatively easy to get right.
>

+1

and from another thread...

>>I've listed a few more: http://scholarly.vernacular.io/#inline-elements.

I think this is a very good starting point. In ContentMine we work on
transforming the current legacy scholarly literature into "ScholarlyHTML"
and I am happy to adopt this vernacular as a target in the near future.
Hopefully this will highlight current scholarly articles that do or do not
transform easily into SH. (There may be a bias towards STM in the immediate
future).

P

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Peter Murray-Rust
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