# Wave support

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/wave-support/654>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [June 8, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/wave-support/654 "2009-06-08T20:16:56Z")\
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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:** [June 8, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/wave-support/654/1 "2009-06-08T20:16:56Z")

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Just thought I’d mention this here, since not everyone may have seen  
my post on zotero-dev, and I think the idea relates to a number of  
things we’ve previously discussed WRT to document portability and  
such.

In short, I think …

1. Google Wave has the potential to be really, really important to  
research and education

2. citation processing is an obvious case for a Robot

See someone that’s thinking along similar lines:

[http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/06/08/google-wave-in-research-the-slightly-more-sober-view-part-i-papers/](http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/06/08/google-wave-in-research-the-slightly-more-sober-view-part-i-papers/)

My basic thought is the robot should:

a) use CSL for style config (no surprise)

b) be based on a distributed notion of where the citation data comes  
from. E.g I think it would be a utter disaster if we saw ten different  
robots, each for a different application or service. We’ve been doing  
that approach for decades, and it’s broken.

I’m not sure it’s too premature to ask this: is anyone interested in  
putting together a project for this?

Bruce