- Bruce D'Arcus' work
- Saxon
- Docbook
- Client-side XSLT support
- action on the OO.o front
- FRBR
- BibTeX
- persistent locators
- getting MODS out of the Library of Congress
Bruce D'Arcus' work
Nice comment about Bruce and distillation of his work at ![[WWW]](/www/moin/htdocs/classic/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
Bibliography creation and XML - inSilico:
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If any of you follow the bleeding-edge research and development of standards within the library world, you might have seen Bruce D'Arcus' name out there. He's a social scientist at Miami of Ohio who is interested in improving existing systems (or creating new ones) to handle bibliographic metadata for use in bibliographies. Why not just use something like Endnote? Well, such packages are not equipped to handle the multitude of different information sources out there. Furthermore, they're not necessarily automated to interoperate with data sources.
example of xhtml bibliography from Bruce D'Arcus which I copy over to BruceDarcus/BibExample1. See it : rendered with the "application/xhtml+xml" mimetype
BruceDarcus/BibExample2 drawn from http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/misc/test-author-year.xhtml: rendered as text/html
Example of a DocBook article, citations, and a bibliography
I will walk through the examples that BruceDarcus points in darcusblog » XSLT 2.0, DocBook, and MODS:
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"Being in a frantic rush to finish and submit some documents, needing a way to format them with XSLT, and wanting to push things forward on the free software front, I decided to tackle some tricky problems using XSLT 2.0."
I still plan to look at the files in his zip file. However, I first walk through a simpler example that he has in http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/files/cite.tar.gz
![[Self]](/www/moin/htdocs/classic/img/moin-inter.png){kind=small}
DocBook XML input X XSLT 2.0 style file --> wiki:Self:BruceDarcus/ExampleTransform20040831/XhtmlOutput
Saxon
I had to install Saxon 8.0B ("The latest open-source implementation of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0, now with added support for XQuery 1.0. This version reflects the syntax of the Working Drafts of 12 November 2003.") to get XSLT 2.0 functionality.
I also installed the Oxygen 4.2 XML/XSLT environment and am trying to configure it to use Saxon 8.0 with these instructions. I thought that I was running into configuration problems. However, the real problem seems to be a bug: EXCEPTION: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Unknown:
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This problem has already been reported on the Saxon list, though I think this is a slightly different incarnation of it. The problem usually occurs when a tree is generated from a DOMSource, generating it using sql:query is exhibiting the same issue. The bug was actually present in earlier releases, but has become more visible because there are more operations now that attempt to determine the typed value of a node.
Docbook
DocBook related
DocBook NG: The “Eaux-de-vie” Release: "'Eaux-de-vie' is the fifth release of DocBook NG"
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"Allow all inlines in citation. This fixes a problem with biblioref."
It would be useful to study the model for bibliographies and citations in DocBook. I formed a sample DocBook/SampleBibliographyDocBookV412.
Client-side XSLT support
XSLT Browsers. How good is support for XSLT in the browser? When will XSLT 2.0 be supported broadly?
action on the OO.o front
Proposal: Enhanced Bibliography:
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when discussing phase 2 topics, I accepted the action item for enhanced bibliography support. Please find attached a proposal derived from the BiblioX project, which is derived upon the <biblioref> element recently accepted for inclusion into DocBook.
FRBR
I've been wondering what type of projects out there are using FRBR. Bruce points to LibDB. darcusblog: LibDB: Bringing RDF and the FRBR to the Masses?:
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The bleeding edge of thinking on bibliographic metadata in the library world is the FRBR. The basic premise of the recommendations is that it is useful to distinguish between different levels of abstractions attached to content. I won't go into detail on a complex subject which I don't perfectly understand myself, but in a nutshell, the principles laid out in the recommendations are comprehensive and based on current thinking about how to model metadata that goes far beyond MARC. For this reason it is also seen, at least by me, as rather abstract, and difficult to see the immediate concrete relevance to my needs. This is rather the same complaint many have about RDF.
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LibDB allows you to smartly and easily catalog your movies, books, magazines, comics, etc. into your own computerized "personal library". It is a free, open sourced, library and asset management system based on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (pdf), triples from the semantic web, and "the end-user doesn't, and shouldn't, need to know this stuff".
BibTeX
persistent locators
How is DOI used?
The Digital Object Identifier System: "The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment." Example http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/430593b redirects to http://www.nature.com/cgi-bin/doifinder.pl?URL=/doifinder/10.1038/430593b
