Library Cataloging
I just received an ad e-mail from Elsevier about their Link Finder Plus. Along with this was a link to a white paper "OpenURL: a Tutorial". After filling in a form asking phone #, address, etc, the result was a paper about 1 1/4 pages long. Just not worth the effort. If it was available without jumping through hoops, that would be OK. As it is, just say no.
- 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....
- Openurl
Emerging Uses for the OpenURL Framework by Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre appears in Proceedings ELPUB2005 : The Ninth ICCC International Conference on Electronic Publishing.This paper describes the OpenURL Framework, both the original 'de facto'...
- Oclc Research Releases Open Source Openurl 1.0 Software
From OCLCThe OCLC OpenURL 1.0 distributions provide OpenURL 1.0 resolution capability. The default installation echoes OpenURL requests formatted in HTML, but the service can be configured to support any context-sensitive service compliant with the OpenURL...
- Openurl Framework For Context-sensitive Services
Now approved, the ANSI/NISO Z39.88 - 2004 The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services.Abstract: The proposed OpenURL standard is syntax to create web-transportable packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. Such packages...
- Hyperlinks
The latest issue of First Monday has the paper Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why by Claire Harrison.The link is the basic element of hypertext, and researchers have long recognized that links provide semantic relationships for users. Yet little...
Library Cataloging
OpenURL
I just received an ad e-mail from Elsevier about their Link Finder Plus. Along with this was a link to a white paper "OpenURL: a Tutorial". After filling in a form asking phone #, address, etc, the result was a paper about 1 1/4 pages long. Just not worth the effort. If it was available without jumping through hoops, that would be OK. As it is, just say no.
- 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....
- Openurl
Emerging Uses for the OpenURL Framework by Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre appears in Proceedings ELPUB2005 : The Ninth ICCC International Conference on Electronic Publishing.This paper describes the OpenURL Framework, both the original 'de facto'...
- Oclc Research Releases Open Source Openurl 1.0 Software
From OCLCThe OCLC OpenURL 1.0 distributions provide OpenURL 1.0 resolution capability. The default installation echoes OpenURL requests formatted in HTML, but the service can be configured to support any context-sensitive service compliant with the OpenURL...
- Openurl Framework For Context-sensitive Services
Now approved, the ANSI/NISO Z39.88 - 2004 The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services.Abstract: The proposed OpenURL standard is syntax to create web-transportable packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. Such packages...
- Hyperlinks
The latest issue of First Monday has the paper Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why by Claire Harrison.The link is the basic element of hypertext, and researchers have long recognized that links provide semantic relationships for users. Yet little...