COinS and Wikipedia
Hello! First I want to say - thank you for your work! :)
I'm one of the editors of Wikipedia and we've been using COinS for many years to provide metadata for our sources. But I did some research and noticed that starting from the official website of the COinS standard itself, ending with OpenURL - everything died. Many applications and resources also stopped working.
I have a suspicion that we need to switch to a more supported standard. Do you have any suggestions/ideas?
I'm one of the editors of Wikipedia and we've been using COinS for many years to provide metadata for our sources. But I did some research and noticed that starting from the official website of the COinS standard itself, ending with OpenURL - everything died. Many applications and resources also stopped working.
I have a suspicion that we need to switch to a more supported standard. Do you have any suggestions/ideas?
Are you wondering about allowing Wikipedia users to one-click cite articles that appear on the Wikipedia website? I can already one-click Wikipedia article references into Zotero (but without the article title).
I use unAPI with my website and Zotero captures the records perfectly. However, I've been getting the impression from some of my technology reading that unAPI is no longer among the best-supported formats.
unAPI was a simple process to implement but I wonder if the value of that system is fading.
Maybe you were asking a different question. Maybe experts here better understood your needs. I apologize for semi-hijacking this thread with a question about unAPI if that is far from the topic.
> Are you wondering about allowing Wikipedia users to one-click cite articles that appear on the Wikipedia website? I can already one-click Wikipedia article references into Zotero (but without the article title).
I'm worried that the metadata of the sources (references) we use may no longer be supported.
Beyond that, I think some sort of microformats (also schema.org based, probably?) are probably the best bet, but Zotero currently doesn't have any support for them and they're also a bit tricky to support for bibliographic metadata.
>There's some ongoing work on generic translation on Zotero that will support JSON-LD embedded in a script tag anywhere on a website
Yes, it seems to me that the script tag is a little not about Wikipedia :)
> (also schema.org based, probably?)
schema.org has some problems, you can read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#c-Trappist_the_monk-20240323234000-Iniquity-20240323220500
If you're looking for something more ambitious that fully captures the details of the citation -- I don't believe that exists, so Wikipedia would have to innovate that, but I'm also not entirely sure of the use case of making the cited location machine readable.