COinS (eng version)

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COinSfind hidden information treasures...

Milan Janek

COinS presentation contents

Motivation What are COinS good for?

COinS technical solution

ContextObject

Span

COinS practically

Plugins for web browsers taking advantage of COinS

OpenURL Refferer

Zotero

COinS? Why?

Linking on documents (electronic or physical)

=> How to do it?

We write reference (in any standardised format).

User tries to find the document using

search engine (Google...)

metasearch engine (Metalib, Serials Solutions...)

library catalog (Aleph, WorldCat...)

electronic resources database...

...

writes down reference somewhere for later use

into any notepad

into computer file where he stores his references

...

COinS? Why? (2)

Would be possible to work with information about document in a simpler manner?

But everyone wants a bit different thing.

he can use different sources direct document linking is not possible

has different requests on syntax it is not clear how reference or information about document generally should look like

Information about document is the most important in both cases metadata.

But how to simply write them on a web page?

COinS What is it?

CoinS ContextObject in Spans

ContextObject

object describing document (or anything different;-)

ANSI standard Z39.88 OpenURL 1.0

&

Span

an inline logical division tag in HTML

does not change look of the site

especially because it has not to be visible at all

ContextObject

ContextObject (Z39.88, OpenURL 1.0)

Original idea connecting of resources (link reslover) reduction of problems with hard links

Server gets the metadata in this format (=ContextObject)

identifies document

offers services (eg. link)

In most cases is ContextObject written using URL form:

link resolver address + metadata as parameters

http://resolver.com/?param1=param1&param2=param2....

*) Older and simplier specification OpenURL 0.1 exists too. It offers more restricted possibilites of format choose, only target document can be specified.

ContextObject (2)

ContextObject example:

http://www.example.com/resolver?

&rft_id = info:doi/10.1126/science.275.5304.1320

&rft_id = info:pmid/9036860

&req_id = mailto:[email protected]

&res_id = http://links.caltech.edu/menu

&rft_val_fmt = info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal

&rft.aulast = Bergelson

&rft.auinit = J

&rft.date = 1997

&rft.atitle = Isolation of a common receptor for coxsackie B viruses and

adenoviruses 2 and 5

&rft.jtitle = Science

&rft.volume = 275

&rft.spage = 1320

&rft.epage = 1323

ContextObject (3)

ContextObject example:

http://www.example.com/resolver?- where to send

&rft_id = info:doi/10.1126/science.275.5304.1320- DOI

&rft_id = info:pmid/9036860- PubMed ID

&req_id = mailto:[email protected] who searches

&res_id = http://links.caltech.edu/menu- where from

&rft_val_fmt = info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal- metadata format

&rft.aulast = Bergelson- author surname

&rft.auinit = J- author name

&rft.date = 1997- release year

&rft.atitle = Isolation of a common receptor for coxsackie B viruses and

adenoviruses 2 and 5- article name

&rft.jtitle = Science- journal name

&rft.volume = 275- volume

&rft.spage = 1320- starting page

&rft.epage = 1323- ending page

Span

is HTML mark for inline logical division

simmilar mark exists - but creates new block

code example:

and its display:

ContextObject in Span

ContextObject (parameters) are inserted into tag , attribute title

class identificion of COinS

title passed parameters

What we reckognize from it?

ContextObject is in version Z39.88,

format je journal,

journals ISSN is 1045-4438

COinS practically (1)

Richard Feynman on Wikipedia...


...bibliography is under the article...


... there are hidden COinS objects in bibliography!


COinS are not very elegant on first look...


...but more important are capabilites they yield

conection with library service SFX in this case

Return to beginnig

Why COinS?

user tries to find document using web search engine, metasearch engine, library catalog, elektronic resources...

or writes it down somewhere for later use into a notepad, file where he stores his references...

COinS adds data into a page, but how to work with them?

We use any of plugins (add-ons) for browser!

We will introduce 2:

OpenURL Refferer

Zotero

OpenURL Refferer

OpenURL Refferer

http://www.openly.com/openurlref/

Browser: Internet Explorer, Firefox

Author: OCLC

Price: free

What does it do: creates links on pre-set link resolver

(we get link that chosen library offers)

How does it work:

take parameters from COinS

plugin adds resolver address and icon

=> displays link

OpenURL Refferer - Setting

tries to find local resolvers

* preferences are taken from OCLC Registry

hard setting of link resolver

setting if and which text or icon will be displayed in the link

OpenURL Refferer & COPAC & SFX@STK

OpenURL Refferer & COPAC & JIB

OpenURL Refferer & HubMed & SFX UTB

Zotero

Zotero

http://www.zotero.org/

Browser: only Firefox (version 3 and higher)

Author: George Mason University

Price: free

What does it do: rreference manager, many functions... can save data from COinS and allows user to work further with them

How does it work:

icon is displayed, if there are any COinS on page

after click metadata are stored into Zotero Library

Zotero & Wikipedia (Alan Turing)




Jak mu vytvoit COinS pro sv strnky?

1) create COinS

COinS generator (OCLC)

http://generator.ocoins.info/

use Perl module for creating OpenURL

http://search.cpan.org/~timbrody/URI-OpenURL-0.4.6/lib/URI/OpenURL.pm

...

2) insert COinS into source code of your pages

Summary

COinS

allows hide metadata about an article on a web page in standardised format (OpenURL)

Plugins for browsers can use COinS for:

finding the document

storing documents metadata

If you add COinS on your pages, you allow users more simple and personalized work with resources.

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