uri, id, file names

CSL Development
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I’m just now updating the CSL styles to conform to the new schema, and
using that to make sure I have it right of course.

If we use the Atom content model, that means we need to include stable
uri ids for all styles. So I think we need conventions for naming style
titles/names, their file names, and their urls.

In the example I was playing with, I had:

http://www.purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl/styles/apa APA 2006-07-27T04:35:20-07:00

… but I honestly am not sure how to handle this. I just added a style
called:

japanese_journal_religious_studies.csl

… but that feels awkward.

Maybe all styles need a full name, and abbreviation, and the latter is
used for the file name and the uri, with the subtitle field for the
full name?

Bruce

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I’m trying to think of an example - all I can come up with is the
weblog ‘using titles in URLs’ convention, which would be something
like
http://www.purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl/styles/japanese-journal-of-
religious-studies.csl

Yeah, that’s a possibility.

An abbreviation would work in the URL too, as long as there aren’t
conflicts. Why would you put the full name in the subtitle and not the
title?

That’d b fine too, but I do want people to be able to use an API by
creating a CSL object like:

CitationStyle("apa")

So there needs to be some notion of short titles (which are neither
titles or subtitles of course!).

BTW, reminds me, we need unit tests for citeproc-py! I’d like to get
the API right.

Bruce