On Feb 10, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Matthias Basler wrote:
Yes, abbreviations for journal names are quite common. Implementation
should not
be very difficult. In a simple case each user can him/herself define a
replacement (or alias) list
(i.e. "Journal of Climatology" -> "J. Clim.")
that can be switched on/off as the user likes.
I think the solution for csl is simple:
<title type="short"/>
... or maybe call the attribute "variant."
That way the processor could look for an abbreviated title, and if not
there, default to the simple title.
In terms of how to handle that in data, to me it's clear that
periodicals and such ought to be normalized as full resources/objects.
So if you're using a RDBMS, there's a table called "collections" which
includes periodicals. That table would then have both "title" and
"short-title" columns.
Likewise, in an RDF representation, you'd do:
<biblio:Journal rdf:about="http://ex.net/journals#x";>
<dc:title>Some Full Journal</dc:title>
<biblio:abbreviatedTitle>S. F. J.</biblio:abbreviated>
</biblio:Journal>
The same issue applies to corporate/organizational names.
Bruce
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