Rachel's point is good.
We think of citations as having author and title information, but most
of the web just uses short URLs as citations.
I think we'll have more success if we build systems that follow those
short URLs and fetch bibliographic data from the page they lead to.
The big challenge is agreeing on how to represent machine readable
bibliographic data on a webpage.
--Casey
On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Rachel Resnick wrote:
>> http://mycatalog.net/biblio/type=book/subject=hilcc:1336|medicine|
>> neurology/title=Principles-of-neural-science/year=2001
>
> That is a very long URL. I guess my question is: for whom is the URL
> intended--for the convenience of Google or for the convenience of your
> users?
>
> It would be great if Google could pull the metadata from the metadata
> assigned to the webpage instead of from the URL.
Casey Bisson
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