Hi everyone,
Bruce, Frank, Rintze, and I met this Monday to discuss the current state of
CSL. This is the first of two e-mails summarizing our discussion, which is
meant as a basis for a broader discussion here on the list. In this e-mail
I’ll talk about CSL infrastructure, the second one will be about CSL
specifications/updates.
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Moving style hosting to www.citationstyles.org
We’d like to transition from zotero.org style ids, and offer both a GUI
version of the style repository on citationstyles.org and serve styles from
there (e.g. for auto-updating). We think this should be the top priority
for 2016
We’ll want a proper hosting solution for this and, if clients will want to
rely on our site (rather than pulling from github the way Zotero & Mendeley
currently do) for style updates. We also will want to hire someone to do
this for us. (Elsevier/Mendeley has already announced they’ll again support
us, so we have a budget). Sylvester suggested someone to us, but if anyone
here is interested or has recommendations, that’d be very welcome, too.
Also, for any of the downstream users of the style–will a global change in
style ids cause major headaches? Is there anything we can/should do to make
the transition go smoothly? -
Moving away from sourceforge
Rintze has mentioned this before, but we’d like to look at moving away from
sourceforge, which is increasingly spammy, sometimes unreliable, and of an
uncertain future. We’re thinking most likely www.discourse.org, with a paid
hosting solution, but are open to alternatives. Also, we want to make sure
that there’s a way to get data out of Discourse before switching.
We won’t be able to transfer the list archive to discourse easily, but
it’ll keep existing on nabble.com
- Achievements & Miscellanea:
- Sylvester built us a nice bot that’s currently screening pull requests
and displaying greeting messages as well as pass/fail follow-ups for pull
requests. It’s working nicely. - As some of you may have seen, we have, with the agreement of the folks
from Mendeley and Columbia Lib, moved the CSL visual editor into the
citation-style-language github and have successfully updated styles and
locales. At least for now, it seems easy enough to maintain that I’ll be
able to handle that, thanks to Steve Ridout’s great documentation and
coding of that project. - We’ll also slightly reorganize repositories which contain lists of
journals and styles by publishers for dependent styles and try to get these
updated as soon as possible. Anyone who wants in on that (checking with
publishers, tracking down new lists etc.) help would be very welcome.
OK. That’s it for infrastructure I believe. Please do chime in with
concerns, disagreement, praise, or other ideas/priorities.
Specification e-mail to follow later this weekend.
Best,
Sebastian–
Sebastian Karcher, PhD
www.sebastiankarcher.com