Make a case for URI microformat
The URI microformat, as suggested in unapi specification by Dan Chud, will be very interesting to library application. Actually it takes advantage of OpenURL and existing link resolver solution.
URI microformat defines a convention of plugging URI metadata in HTML page.
If URI microformat is adopted and widely used, say in major online bookstore, or in faculty/researcher's homepage, now a microformat-aware application (be a greasemonkey script, or a web service) can grab the identifier and point to your local OpenURL resolver, you immediately get the copy from local library.
In this sense, the URI microformat is very similar to COINS, but it's much simpler and cleaner, anyone can understand and use it, and its aplication can be beyond traditional research library. e.g. in a public library, you can use amazon as catalog and immediately check if it's available in local collection.
Maybe the rosy picture is too opmistic, but I think this thing is something really valuable.
The URI microformat, as suggested in unapi specification by Dan Chud, will be very interesting to library application. Actually it takes advantage of OpenURL and existing link resolver solution.
URI microformat defines a convention of plugging URI metadata in HTML page.
<span class=”unapi-uri” title=”info:pmid/12345678”>PMID 12345678</span>
If URI microformat is adopted and widely used, say in major online bookstore, or in faculty/researcher's homepage, now a microformat-aware application (be a greasemonkey script, or a web service) can grab the identifier and point to your local OpenURL resolver, you immediately get the copy from local library.
In this sense, the URI microformat is very similar to COINS, but it's much simpler and cleaner, anyone can understand and use it, and its aplication can be beyond traditional research library. e.g. in a public library, you can use amazon as catalog and immediately check if it's available in local collection.
Maybe the rosy picture is too opmistic, but I think this thing is something really valuable.
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