Re: COinS in OL?

From: Eric Hellman <hellmane_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 01:54:49 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
just catch up on the discussion here...

for the benefit of those who aren't on the openurl list, it was pointed out
that you can put lccn in a ContextObject using info uri's:

rft_id=info:lccn/93004427

Eric

On 12/1/08 1:28 PM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <rochkind_at_JHU.EDU> wrote:

> I'm not sure there's any good way to include a DDC or LCC in an SAP1
> OpenURL for COinS. Same with subject vocabularies. Really, I'm pretty
> sure there is NOT, in fact.  But if there is, sure, throw them in, put
> in anything you've got.
> 
> But this re-affirms my suggestion that there might be a better
> microformat-ish way to embed information in the page in addition to
> OpenURL.  COinS/OpenURL is important because we have an established
> infrastructure for it, but it's actually pretty limited and not always
> the easiest to work with.
> 
> Jonathan
> 


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