On the track of a formatting processor.

Hi,

I’m working on a citation management citation project in collaboration with
Natasa Bulatovic. We already have our own citation style format and we would
like to work with Atom format.
Currently, we have problem to find a processor which is able to work with
our format.
Thus, I’m looking for some recommendation about the different existing
process. If you could commend me one (or more) processor which is (are) able
to work with Atom format, you would be very helpful.

Best Regards.

Bastien Saquet.

Hi – what exactly are you looking for? I’m unclear of the connection
between the “formatting processor” and Atom.

We’ve discussed the possibility of using Atom here for distributing and
updating styles (because users shouldn’t really have to bother with
download and such), but haven’t gotten very far (busy with other
things).

Bruce

hi,

just to clarify a bit… we need a working processing engine that
accepts as an input data i.e. publication metadata in Atom (or other
simpler, but not in MODS) format -
It will be for us pretty tricky to do the mapping from our metadata
schema to MODS (as it was not considered it as applicable for our needs).
CiteProc processor is dealing with MODS metadata only.
Any other processor that we can use / easy adopt for input data? (we
would still like to stick to CSL)

PS. We have tried with CiteProc before - but there were some problems
and we were not able to make it work properly when trying to put some
other styles from xbiblio-subversion. Related post from our developer:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=7ae8263110208ba3790a4b2126138e0c%40gmail.com&forum_name=xbiblio-devel

Best,
Natasa

Bruce D’Arcus wrote:

just to clarify a bit… we need a working processing engine that
accepts as an input data i.e. publication metadata in Atom (or other
simpler, but not in MODS) format -
It will be for us pretty tricky to do the mapping from our metadata
schema to MODS (as it was not considered it as applicable for our
needs).
CiteProc processor is dealing with MODS metadata only.

The internal processing model of citeproc expects an RDF dialect. But
one could always write an input driver for different formats.

Any other processor that we can use / easy adopt for input data? (we
would still like to stick to CSL)

PS. We have tried with CiteProc before - but there were some problems
and we were not able to make it work properly when trying to put some
other styles from xbiblio-subversion.

Yes, because of the changes in CSL and my lack of time to update the
stylesheets, it’s fallen behind. I’ll try to update it over the summer.

The most up-to-date code is the Zotero Javascript code, but am not sure
how easy it would be to adapt to other data formats.

Bruce

Hi Bruce,

Thank you for your help.

I’m looking for an example of input driver. Do you have some example, it
would be useful to me.

Bastien.