On the Missing of a Big Huge Opportunity

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Published by dchud on September 14th, 2006 in coins, unapi, opa

As seen on /., this, from the Royal Society of London backfiles, is way cool. But look further: there's this link option list, and the little box full of format options off to the side of the first page.

Maybe it would help sell the world on COinS and unAPI if we wrote one (1) greasemonkey script/ffx extension that unAPI-fied a few dozen prominent sites (rather than the one-userscript-per-resource strategy we'd already followed). I could add a unAPI server proxy for all these sites to OPA, too.

The whole of slashdot readership is starting at pages with OpenURLs right now.

Anybody got a sec to get the ball rolling?

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pbinkley (not verified) on September 14th 2006

Let Zotero do it!

Or could we come up with a nice modular structure for which it would be easy to write plugins for different resources? In time to spend Hackfest churning out plugins?

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