Re: Twitter annotations and library software

From: Ed Summers <ehs_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:15:46 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss_at_gbv.de> wrote:
> If you want to put bibliographic metadata
> into twitter annotations (good idea) you first need to clarify the basic
> purpose of embedding this information. I see two of them:
>
> I. Identification: To identify other tweets and resources that refer to the
> same publication
>
> II. Description: To nicely show which publication someone refers to.

I think this is right. I wonder, would you consider a potential use
case for Description to also provide machine readable data for a
resource when a standard identifier is not known?

It would be interesting to explore what identifiers + csl (and other
options) would look like in a twitter annotation if you had time to
mock something up in a wiki somewhere :-)

//Ed

[1] http://citationstyles.org/citation-style-language/schema/
Received on Wed Apr 28 2010 - 04:16:44 EDT