Library Cataloging
Wikipedia has recently stopped using COinS.
- Coins Generator
It seems the COinS Generator is not working, at least when given a DOI it returns the target not a Content Object in Spans. Is there no alternative tool? I couldn't find one. If that is the case, is it because COinS is pretty useless and no one bothered...
- Coins In Open Worldcat
OCLC in now using COinS in Open WorldCat.OCLC has added COinS to its Open WorldCat Web pages. COinS, or Context Objects in Spans, is a standardized way to invisibly embed bibliographic metadata into a Web page's HTML, using the OpenURL metadata. This...
- Open Worldcat Supports Coins
Open WorldCat now supports ContentObjects in Spans (COinS).On March 12, 2006 OCLC added COinS to its Open WorldCat web pages. COinS is an acronym that stands for Context Objects in Spans, which represent a standardized way to embed citation metadata into...
- Using Coins
I've found the problem using COinS in Blogger. Blogger converts a new line to a line break. That was messing up the code I copied from the COinS Generator. Here it is with breaks removed.Recently I've been enjoying The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's...
- Open Worldcat Or Coins
I received a good question about choosing between Amazon and Open WorldCat, "Why not use COinS?" Why not indeed? There is now a COinS generator, so it should be simple to create them. However, when I use I get not the link but all the metadata showing....
Library Cataloging
COinS at Wikipedia
Wikipedia has recently stopped using COinS.
There have been many complaints (e.g. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19262) that articles take too long to render. For articles with many citations, the obvious low-hanging fruit is COINS metadata. For example, Muammar Gaddafi takes 28.3 seconds to parse, but with COINS removed, it takes 22.2 seconds.Users of Zotero and LibX have raised objections. COinS may be brought back when Wikipedia does some system improvements. If you have any feelings on the matter (COinS are necessary, should be replaced by a better schema, etc.) join the discussion.
Nobody ever held a straw poll asking the community "can we please make article parsing 27% slower in order to support a rarely-used metadata feature?" I'm sure that data can be provided in some other way. So I would like to remove it. -- Tim Starling (talk) 06:10, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
- Coins Generator
It seems the COinS Generator is not working, at least when given a DOI it returns the target not a Content Object in Spans. Is there no alternative tool? I couldn't find one. If that is the case, is it because COinS is pretty useless and no one bothered...
- Coins In Open Worldcat
OCLC in now using COinS in Open WorldCat.OCLC has added COinS to its Open WorldCat Web pages. COinS, or Context Objects in Spans, is a standardized way to invisibly embed bibliographic metadata into a Web page's HTML, using the OpenURL metadata. This...
- Open Worldcat Supports Coins
Open WorldCat now supports ContentObjects in Spans (COinS).On March 12, 2006 OCLC added COinS to its Open WorldCat web pages. COinS is an acronym that stands for Context Objects in Spans, which represent a standardized way to embed citation metadata into...
- Using Coins
I've found the problem using COinS in Blogger. Blogger converts a new line to a line break. That was messing up the code I copied from the COinS Generator. Here it is with breaks removed.Recently I've been enjoying The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's...
- Open Worldcat Or Coins
I received a good question about choosing between Amazon and Open WorldCat, "Why not use COinS?" Why not indeed? There is now a COinS generator, so it should be simple to create them. However, when I use I get not the link but all the metadata showing....