Friday, February 10, 2006

OCOinS

Still wrapping my head around OpenURL ContextObject in SPAN; sounds like it might have real potential. This specification would allow authors to embed bibliographic citation metadata into HTML. From the site:

Open Access, public domain, and pay-per-use publishers typically do not have "subscribers" and have difficulty discovering a user's institutional affiliation which is needed to make an OpenURL. Embedded metadata can be used by client-side software to add links to non-subscription based content. This method of providing OpenURL links to users by combining embedded metadata with client side link activation has been called "latent OpenURL".


Very cool.

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