[Web4lib] Re: Wikipedia citations directly from the library catalog

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Hi Lars --
 
Thanks for calling this to our attention.  That's really very  interesting 
about the Swedish national library including Wikipedia as a citation  model. 
 But it is not surprising that Wikipedia is considered a  source for 
reference formatting.  Wikipedia encourages complete  documentation for their 
articles, one of the reasons it is such a good starting  point for a new 
research project.  You get an overview of the  topic, lots of references, and maybe 
a few jokes along the way.  Those  jokes are why Wikipedia is so serious 
about documentation.
 
Thanks again,
 
 
Katherine
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In a message dated 5/12/2009 9:09:47 AM US Mountain Standard Time,  
web4lib-request at webjunction.org writes:

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Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 19:16:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Lars Aronsson  <lars at aronsson.se>
Subject: [Web4lib] Wikipedia citations directly  from the library
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Look up any book in the union catalog of  the Swedish national 
library, say Clay Shirky's "Here comes everybody",  
http://libris.kb.se/bib/10701971

If the page displays in a strange  language, click "in English" at 
the top.

Now, just under the title  and ISBN, there is a light blue field.  
Click on the "Cite"  button.

Up comes a list of cut-and-paste ready citations in styles like  
Oxford, Harvard and BibTeX.  At the bottom is the news: The  
"bokref"  (cite book) template used in the Swedish  Wikipedia.

Among the template parameters are  isbn=978-1-59420-153-0
and libris=10701971, the number found in the  URL.

-- 
Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
Aronsson  Datateknik - _http://aronsson.se_ (http://aronsson.se) 



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