CrossTech

OK, after a number of delays due to everything from indexing slowness to router problems, I'm happy to say that the first public beta of our WordPress citation plugin is available for download via SourceForge. A Movable Type version is in the works.

And congratulations to Trey at OpenHelix who became laudably impatient, found the SourceForge entry for the plugin back on February 8th and seems to have been testing it since. He has a nice description of how it works (along with screenshots), so I won't repeat the effort here.

Having said that, I do include the text of the README after the jump. Please have a look at it before you install, because it might save you some mystification.

Continue reading "CrossRef Citation Plugin (for WordPress)" »

Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 12:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

David Shorthouse and Rod Page have developed some great tools for linking references by tying together a number of services and using the CrossRef OpenURL interface amongst other things. See David's post - Gimme That Scientific Paper Part III and Rod's post on OpenURL and using ParaTools - "OpenURL and Spiders".

Unfortunately our planned changes to the CrossRef OpenURL interface (the 100 queries per day limit in particular) caused some concern for David ("CrossRef Takes a Step Back") - but make sure you read the comments to see my response!

We decided to drop the 100 per day query limit for the OpenURL interface and there will be no charges for non-commercial use of the interface - http://www.crossref.org/requestaccount/

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Posted by Ed Pentz at 06:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Identity Czar and member of the Identity Gang, comments on Microsoft's announcement that they will support OpenID. Another sign that federated identity schemes are gaining traction and OpenID is likely to emerge as a standard the publishers are going to want to grapple with soon.

This follows Doc Searl's comments on the notion of "Creator Relationship Management" where he speculates that the techniques being used in federated identity schemes and the Creative Commons can be combined to create a new "silo-free" value chain amongst creators, producers and distributors.

Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 04:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)