OpenURL COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is “a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML”. It uses the <span> element to hold OpenURL information. This has potential uses for creating links to cited articles, especially on free publishing platforms.
For details on the specification, see ocoins.info.
Blimey.
I woke up on new year’s day thinking “why hasn’t anybody done this”? Turns out that they had, but they couched it in such dry and turgid language that no-one noticed.
This is the real Web 2.0!
-Ben-