Sonny Software

Posted: **Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:11 am**

I just read about COinS:

http://www.zotero.org/blog/bibliographi ... t-smarter/

http://ocoins.info/

I think it would be great if Bookends supported COinS import and export. I've been using Zotero and don't like it very much, I was wondering if there could be some Firefox plugin or System Service which sends this information directly to Bookends from your browser? And how best to do export? Is this just a bibliographic format, or is there some other work that would need to go into supporting it?

I'd love to use COinS in my course syllabi...

Posted: **Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:43 am**

Hi,

It looks interesting, thanks for the tip. I'll add it to my list of things to investigate.

Jon
Sonny Software

Posted: **Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:07 am**

Since Safari 3.1 came out I've switched over from Firefox, and so I recently decided to look into this some more.

I discovered that there are some Greasemonkey javascript plugins which allow a browser to lookup OpenURL info from COINS information. You can find these here:

http://old.onebiglibrary.net/yale/curtis/resolvable/

more info:

http://www.oclc.org/productworks/coins.htm

And these work quite well using the GreaseKit plugin for Safari. You can find that here:

http://8-p.info/greasekit/

So now all that remains is to find some clever soul who knows enough javascript to edit these to download the COINS metadata to a RIS file which Bookends can import, in a similar way to what Zotero does with the data.