- From: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 12:24:04 -0400
Re: the recent microdata work and the subsequent effort to include BibTeX in the spec, I summarized my argument against this on my blog: <http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2009/05/20/on-the-inclusion-of-bibtex-in-html5> I think it's fair to say that the Zotero project [1] agrees with my thoughts; Dan Cohen just said as much in an email, where he expressed concern both with the introduction of a new generic metadata-in-HTML spec alongside RDFa, and also the use of BibTeX in particular. Thanks to Ian for the email conversation on this, BTW, and for taking the basic use case seriously. Bruce PS - Brief background on me: am a professional scholar (a social scientist) [2], and author or co-author of some relevant work in this area: the Bibliographic Ontology [3], and the Citation Style Language (CSL) [4], both of which have been collaborations with Zotero (among others). I also had a major hand in the new RDF/RDFa-based extensible metadata support in OpenDocument 1.2. So I have quite a bit of practical experience on different sides of this: both user and developer. [1] http://zotero.org [2] http://bruce.darcus.name [3] http://bibliontology.com/ [4] http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/csl/
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