Library Cataloging
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 allows other tools, such as Web browsers, to identify citation metadata in Web content and automatically generate links to appropriate resources in a user's own library.
COinS
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Openbook4wordpress
Openbook4wordpress might be a useful tool for some.When you insert an OpenBook shortcode with an ISBN or other book number in a WordPress post or widget, the OpenBook plugin replaces it with a book cover image and other book data from Open Library. It...
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Coins In Wordpress
The OpenBook Book Data plug-in for WordPress by John Miedema now supports COinS.OpenBook is for book reviewers, book bloggers, library webmasters, anyone who wants to put book covers and data on their WordPress blog or website.OpenBook gets its covers...
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Oclc's Openurl Referer For Ie
News from OCLC about an OpenURL referer.OCLC's OpenURL Referrer is now available for Internet Explorer! Previously available only for Firefox, this popular browser extension inserts OpenURLs into Google Scholar and Google News Archive search results....
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Coins Tool
The COinS Browser Extensions for Your Library can autogenerate bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts for sending embedded COinS to your local resolver.Below is a form for finding bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts to support COinS links at a number...
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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