OpenURL microformats for books and journal articles

Daniel Chudnov and Ed Summers have been working out a microformats for print citation based on OpenURL, a standard for encoding that sort of data inside a URL. Talking to Daniel has set off a bit of a "mind bomb" for me; I've been reading up about some of the work that's been done by the academic community, and it's quite amazing how much thought people are putting into it. They have a huge volume of data that they're trying to index / keep track of. It already has some metadata, but it's stored differently in every library. Tricky. I've thought for a long time that people have low expectations, software-wise, in the blogging community. Hardly anybody in "Web 2.0" (myself included) is building stuff that I would consider impressive from a programming POV. Time consuming to build, perhaps, but not anything special. The exceptions are outfits like Google (working on a massive scale), PubSub (super-fast matching with clever algorithms), Riya (image processing), Microsoft (handwriting ...

14:31:23 January 19, 2006, Thursday (PST) Source: Second p0st

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