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Quick introduction to the Citation Style Language (CSL) Jakob Voß Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) Lightning Talk proposal European Library Automation Group Conference May 2010

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Bibliographies & Citations <ul><li>Solved again and again and again </li><ul><li>in various reference management software

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in library software presentation layers </li></ul><li>Zillions of citation styles

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Best open standard: BibTeX. Which sucks! </li></ul>@book{nelson1987, edition = {87.1}, title = {Literary machines}, isbn = {0-89347-055-4}, publisher = {Mindful Press}, author = {Theodor Holm Nelson}, year = {1987} } T.H. Nelson, Literary machines , Mindful Press, 1987. Nelson, T.H., 1987. Literary machines edition 87.1, Mindful Press. Nelson TH. Literary machines . 87. ed. Mindful Press; 1987. Nelson, T.H. Literary machines . (Mindful Press: 1987). Bibliographic Data Nicely formatted

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Citation Style Language (CSL) CSL processor citation style (in CSL) bibliographic & citation records bibliography & citations

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CSL Styles <ul><li>Described in the CSL 1.0 specification

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Huge Zotero stylesheet repository (CSL 0.8)

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Mendeley (et al) work on WYSIWYG editors http://bitbucket.org/csledit/csl-wysiwyg-editor </li></ul><!-- example snipped from the Chicago Manual of Style in CSL --> <macro name=&quot;container-contributors&quot;> <choose> <if type=&quot;chapter&quot;> <group delimiter=&quot;, &quot;> <choose> <if variable=&quot;author&quot;> <names delimiter=&quot;, &quot; variable=&quot;editor&quot;> <label form=&quot;verb&quot; suffix=&quot; &quot; text-case=&quot;lowercase&quot; /> <name and=&quot;text&quot; delimiter=&quot;, &quot; /> </names> </if> </choose> ...

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CSL Processors <ul><li>citeproc-js runs in Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers, Google Chrome, Safari, IE6+ & Rhino and spidermonkey/tracemonkey for server-side deployments http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/

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More (or less) processors: </li><ul><li>Haskell http://code.haskell.org/citeproc-hs/

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PHP http://bitbucket.org/rjerome/citeproc-php

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Phython http://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-py/

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Ruby http://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-rb/

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… </li></ul><li>Join the coders, documentors, testers! </li></ul>

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Input formats <ul><li>CSL is independent of the input serialization (currently JSON, later XML, RDF etc.)

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Implied conceptual data model </li><ul><li>Bibliographic items </li><ul><li>name fields (author, editor, translator...)

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date fields (issued, original-date...)

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textual and numeric fields (title, issue...) </li></ul><li>Citation items </li><ul><li>references to bibliographic items

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prefix, suffux, locators („see page 23“) </li></ul></ul><li>To be done </li><ul><li>Map our data (MARC etc.) to CSL records

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Much already done in Zotero </li></ul></ul>

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Output formats <ul><li>CSL is independent of the markup language

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Output in HTML+CSS , RTF, LaTeX, XSL-FO...

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Basic formatting capabilities </li></ul>indent block left-margin right-inline bold light italic SMALL -CAPS underline sup sup

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Thanks and kudos to Frank Bennett Rintze Zelle Bruce D'Arcus visit CitationStyles.org