Open Library

Add COinS to edition pages

Bug #277505 reported by Karen Coyle
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Karen Coyle

Bug Description

COinS = Context Object in Spans, a way to embed the OpenURL bibliographic data in a web page. It can then be picked up by browser plugins that search for the item in the user's local library.

see: http://ocoins.info/

Karen to write spec for conversion of OL fields to OpenURL string.
?? to write code to add this to edition pages.

Karen Coyle (kcoyle)
Changed in openlibrary:
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Karen Coyle (kcoyle) wrote :

Spec is now available:

http://openlibrary.org/about/COinS

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Karen Coyle (kcoyle) wrote :

Possible interesting article at: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/oclc-coins-generator-more-powerful-than-expected/

and automated COinS generator at:http://generator.ocoins.info/

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