# Types

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/types/310>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [August 14, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/types/310 "2007-08-14T18:40:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/types/310/21 "2007-08-15T15:21:20Z")

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John P. McCaskey wrote:

> I think if I were writing an application to format using CSL (which  
> I’m toying with), I’d figure out how to get Zotero to export its  
> mappings into that mapping file and just use whatever labels they  
> picked. That would make for a consistent UI cross-platform.

Yes, it would be nice if ALL forms presented to the user were configured  
the same way, and the config files were HTTP-accessible. Not exactly  
sure how best to do this such that RDF, internal models, CSL all line up  
cleanly, but I do think it’s possible.

In any case, the details are something to work on going forward (though  
not, as said, per se WRT to CSL). We’re still struggling how to handle  
typing with the RDF. Would be simpler, of course, if applications could  
more directly use the RDF types (user selects “Article” and then choose  
whether published in a journal or magazine, etc.), but that may not be  
realistic.

And even with that, there’d still be stuff outside (or rather more  
specific than) the formal ontology.

Bruce

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**Author:** ![John\_P\_McCaskey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@John\_P\_McCaskey](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/John_P_McCaskey)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/types/310/22 "2007-08-15T15:27:49Z")

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> > I think if I were writing an application to format using CSL (which  
> > I’m toying with), I’d figure out how to get Zotero to export its  
> > mappings into that mapping file and just use whatever labels they  
> > picked. That would make for a consistent UI cross-platform.
> 
> Yes, it would be nice if ALL forms presented to the user were configured  
> the same way, and the config files were HTTP-accessible. Not exactly  
> sure how best to do this such that RDF, internal models, CSL all line up  
> cleanly, but I do think it’s possible.
> 
> In any case, the details are something to work on going forward (though  
> not, as said, per se WRT to CSL). We’re still struggling how to handle  
> typing with the RDF. Would be simpler, of course, if applications could  
> more directly use the RDF types (user selects “Article” and then choose  
> whether published in a journal or magazine, etc.), but that may not be  
> realistic.

If the bibo RDF specifies labels, it seems to me this should be a realistic goal.

John

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