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COinS for Mendeley

ContextObjects in Spans, commonly abbreviated COinS, is a method of embedding ContextObjects in the HTML code of Web pages

Several Content Management Systems embed COinS:
The Zotero developers have built a WordPress plugin that embeds a COinS tag in each blog post, making relevant metadata visible to Zotero (post title, author, date, blog title, categories, and URL). (http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/wordpress).
Drupal gets COinS-Support with the Bibliography Module (http://drupal.org/project/biblio)

So every Website-Owner using Wordpress or Drupal would get an very simple way of embedding citation metadata.

The following Web sites make use of COinS:

* Citebase
* Copac
* HubMed
* Wikipedia
* WorldCat
* CiteULike

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    Jonas WegenerJonas Wegener shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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      • grubsgrubs commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        As mentioned by ioverka - the COinS data is missing date and also publisher fields.

      • ioverkaioverka commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        thanks for adding COinS to Mendeley's record pages. However, the date information seem to be missing.

        Example: http://www.mendeley.com/research/properties-of-meg-tomographic-maps-obtained-with-spatial-filtering/

        source information on page:
        NeuroImage (2003)
        Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 1329-1336
        PubMed ID: 12948691

        COinS: <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fmendeley.com%3Amendeley&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.volume=19&amp;rft.issue=4&amp;rft.pages=1329-1336&amp;rft.atitle=Properties+of+MEG+tomographic+maps+obtained+with+spatial+filtering.&amp;rft.jtitle=NeuroImage&amp;rft.aulast=Gross&amp;rft.auinit1=J&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.au=Timmermann%2C+L&amp;rft.au=Kujala%2C+J&amp;rft.au=Salmelin%2C+R&amp;rft.au=Schnitzler%2C+A">

        publication year ("rft.date=2003") is missing and you may consider to add the pmid as well ("rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F12948691").

        greetings,
        inga

      • Jonas WegenerJonas Wegener commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        The bookmarklet should support COinS (like Zotero), so vote for my idea if you like to get citation metadata from sites like GBV (www.gbv.de), Springerlink or citeulike.

      • Jonas WegenerJonas Wegener commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Example for COinS:
        <span class="Z3988"
        title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;
        rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;
        rft.genre=book&amp;
        rft.btitle=Hallo+Welt&amp;
        rft.title=Hallo+Welt&amp;
        rft.aulast=Mustermann&amp;
        rft.aufirst=Max&amp;
        rft.au=Max+Mustermann&amp;
        rft.date=2005&amp;
        rft.pub=Wikipedia-Press&amp;
        rft.place=Musterstadt">
        </span>

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