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January 9, 2006

COinS

Filed under: Library — Will @ 4:18 pm

OpenURL COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is “a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML”. It uses the <span> element to hold OpenURL information. This has potential uses for creating links to cited articles, especially on free publishing platforms.

For details on the specification, see ocoins.info.

1 Comment »

  1. Blimey.

    I woke up on new year’s day thinking “why hasn’t anybody done this”? Turns out that they had, but they couched it in such dry and turgid language that no-one noticed.

    This is the real Web 2.0!

    -Ben-

    Comment by BenJ — January 20, 2006 @ 2:48 pm

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