{"id":43,"date":"2005-02-12T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T03:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/02\/12\/global-card-catalog\/"},"modified":"2005-02-12T23:51:02","modified_gmt":"2005-02-13T03:51:02","slug":"global-card-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/02\/12\/global-card-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Global card catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a783'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">There are a few projects afoot which combined should make for a fine <STRONG>global citations database<\/STRONG> and card catalog substitute.&nbsp; First, the pilot <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikicite\">Wikicite project<\/A> on the English edition of Wikipedia (see also its <A href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikicite\">abstract specification<\/A> and&nbsp;growing&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/Wikipedia:Wikicite_feature_requests\">list of feature requests<\/A>).&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there are various partial implementations of a simple strutured-data specification called <A href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikidata\">Wikidata<\/A>; see for instance the similar templates for <STRONG>biographical&nbsp;data<\/STRONG> on <A href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\">de.wikipedia<\/A>, and for <STRONG>news-source citations<\/STRONG> on <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\">wikinews<\/A>.)&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">And finally, there are projects by the LOC and modern library associations to do away with traditional card catalogs, and provide better interfaces for referencing texts.&nbsp; Sadly, in direct contradiction of the <EM>Laws of NatureTM<\/EM>, I know least about the last set of projects, though they have been around the <STRONG>longest<\/STRONG> now, and have the most proponents\/contributors&#8230;&nbsp;perhaps we can start a&nbsp;small discussion here about how these projects could&nbsp;interrelate.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few projects afoot which combined should make for a fine global citations database and card catalog substitute.&nbsp; First, the pilot Wikicite project on the English edition of Wikipedia (see also its abstract specification and&nbsp;growing&nbsp;list of feature requests).&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there are various partial implementations of a simple strutured-data specification called Wikidata; see for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}