Citations with CTS and Microformats

The page Citation_in_digital_scholarship describes a convention for indicating citations that relies on the 'class' and 'title' attributes when implemented in (x)html.

This page describes an extension of that convention to encompass adding Microformats and CTS identifiers to conformant citations.

Sample sentence: "vd. Ath. Deipn. I".

With citation markup added: "vd. Ath. Deipn. I".

Pattern 1
 Ath. Deipn. I 

This solution is somehow tightly coupled, i.e. the citation is linked to one resource.

Pattern 2
[TBC]

Pattern 3
 &lt;cite class="ctref"> Ath. Deipn. I Kaibel &lt;/cite> 

This solution is more loosely coupled than the previous one. The citation is still linked to a resource, but the encoding includes enough information for a client-side component to create links to alternative resources. The markup in Pattern 2 was proposed in (Romanello 2008).

The idea is to store in the @title a machine-understandable value representing a citation segment as described in the Microformats abbr-design pattern.

The &lt;cite> element is used to include further semantics.

In this example CTS URNs are used to provide identifiers for authors, works and work editions (see the CHS Canon for a full list).

Parsing Microformats
Some extensions or add-ons exist for different browsers that allow for some understanding for microformatted content embedded in web pages.


 * for Firefox: Operator
 * for Chrome: michromeformats