Dear Rich,
That's a question for Kevin Richards, mostly. I guess a more general question is: how do we / should we automaticlly recurse up the "parentCitation" chain? My thinking is "yes", but I'm not completely sure how to represent that (nested?). I suppose I could flatten it out in the "parentCitationString" (which I only just now realized I havn't done yet -- must have been on a "todo" list that disappeared). But I wonder if there shouldn't be a more structured way of doing this for refs with n-number of parents/grandparents/etc.
From my perspective, if there is a GUID for the reference then I don't particularly care what the parent is (I can get that by querying the GUID for the reference).
If, however, there's no GUID then I would want all the relevant metadata to hand to be able to try and find one, I don't want to have to go up citation tree to get the journal name, I just want to take the bibliographic metadata in the RDF for the name and search for the GUID (e.g., using an OpenURL resolver).
- The article in question has a DOI, hence it would be nice
to link to that (doi:10.1007/BF02725185). I know you're working towards this, but without an external GUID for the publication I think nomenclators will be of limited use.
Agreed -- and yes, I am headed that way -- just limited to 24hrs/day right now -- only 22hrs/day, when you subtract sleep.... :-)
You get to sleep -- luxury! ;-)
Anyway, many thanks....
Also: something I thought you would comment on, and what I've been meaning to ask this list: How to deal with HTML tags within data values? Note that the title: "<i>Belonoperca pylei</i>, a new species of seabass (Teleostei: Serranidae: Epinephelinae: Diploprionini) from the Cook Islands with comments on relationships among diploprionins"
I markup the original data field with "...<i>...</i>..." tags to denote italics, but I'm not sure what to do with those tags when piping out metadata in RDF. I could strip them easily enough --- but should I?
Personally I would strip out any formatting, especially from a field that will be interpreted by other software. Furthermore, what would you do if the metadata gets served in another format, such as n3, or JSON, etc.?
Regards
Rod
Thoughts/comments welcome....
Aloha, Rich
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