Supporting Online Citation Managers through COinS

OpenURL COinS (Context Objects in Spans) is a simple specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML. DataONE can leverage this mechanism as a simple way to facilitate automated citation extraction from search results for example.

Example, manually generated from the COinS generator at http://generator.ocoins.info/ :

Key	SOLR Field	Value
ctx_ver	N/A	Z39.88-2004
rfr_id	N/A	info:sid/ocoins.info:generator
rft_val_fmt	N/A	info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dc
rft.title	title	eBird Reference Data Set Subsampled Demonstration Data
rft.creator	contactOrganization | investigator	Cornell Lab of Ornithology
rft.subject	keywords	eBird
rft.description	abstract	Data used by the DataONE Exploration, Visualization, and Analysis working group for predicting spatially and temporally explicit bird migration patterns.
rft.publisher	datasource	http://knb-mn.dataone.org
rft.date	endDate	2011-01-01
rft.type	N/A	Dataset
rft.format	objectFormat	eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.0
rft.identifier	identifier	erd.368.1
rft.source	http://cn.dataone.org/cn/object/{IDENTIFIER}	http://cn.dataone.org/cn/object/erd.368.1
rft.coverage	westBoundCoord, southBoundCoord, northBoundCoord, eastBoundCoord	POLYGON((-83.25 35.875, -83.25 46.75, -69.125 46.75, -69.125 35.875))

( NBC =  46.75
  EBC = -69.125
  WBC = -83.25
  SBC =  35.875 )

with a resulting COinS tag of:

<span
   class="Z3988"
   title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Focoins.info%3Agenerator&amp;rft.title=eBird+Reference+Data+Set+Subsampled+Demonstration+Data&amp;rft.creator=Cornell+Lab+of+Ornithology&amp;rft.subject=eBird&amp;rft.description=Data+used+by+the+DataONE+Exploration%2C+Visualization%2C+and+Analysis+working+group+for+predicting+spatially+and+temporally+explicit+bird+migration+patterns.&amp;rft.publisher=http%3A%2F%2Fknb-mn.dataone.org&amp;rft.date=2011-01-01&amp;rft.type=Dataset&amp;rft.format=eml%3A%2F%2Fecoinformatics.org%2Feml-2.1.0&amp;rft.identifier=erd.368.1&amp;rft.source=http%3A%2F%2Fcn.dataone.org%2Fknb%2Fmetacat%2Ferd.368.1&amp;rft.coverage=POLYGON%28%28-83.25+35.875%2C+-83.25+46.75%2C+-69.125+46.75%2C+-69.125+35.875%29%29">
      (Insert Default Text Here)
</span>