Library Cataloging
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 and book data from Open Library (http://openlibrary.org), the only source of bibliographic data that is both open source and open data, hence the OpenBook label.
About COinS
The goal is to embed citation metadata into html in such a way that processing agents can discover, process and make use of the metadata. Since an important use of this metadata will be to allow processing agents to make OpenURL hyperlinks for users in libraries (latent OpenURL), the method must allow the metadata to be placed any where in HTML that a link might appear. In the absence of some metadata-aware agent, the embedded metadata must be invisible to the user and innocuous with respect to HTML markup. To meet these requirements, the span element was selected. The NISO OpenURL ContextObject is selected as the specific metadata package. The resulting specification is named "ContextObject in SPAN" or COinS for short.
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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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Latest Code4lib Journal
The fourth issue of Code4Lib Journal is now available. Articles include:Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API by Daniel TalskyMining Data from ISI Web of Science Reports by Alfred KraemerUnveiling Jangle: Untangling Library...
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Wordpress Plug-in
The CrossRef Citation Plugin is a "WordPress plugin that allows blog entry authors to search CrossRef's metadata using full or partial citations and then insert the formatted and DOI-linked citation into their blog posting along with COINs metadata."...
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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...
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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...
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