[openbiblio-dev] Tutorial on BibJSON

Sat Dec 17 17:46:46 UTC 2011

Ok. That's different to the concept of object that I usually work  
with, which requires values to be represented by identifiers,  
preferably URIs. Would your definition include having the names be  
controlled, in the sense that "Jim Pitman" would always be "Jim  
Pitman" and not "James Pitman" or "J Pitman"?

kc

Quoting Mark MacGillivray <mark at odaesa.com>:

> Yes.
>
> As in, a basic representation of authors would be:
>
> "author":"Mark and Peter and Karen"
>
> But an improvement would be:
>
> "author":["Mark","Peter","Karen"]
>
> and if you want more info just do:
>
> "author":[{"name":"Mark"},{"name":"Peter"},{"name":"Karen"}]
>
> plus if you want namespaced keys:
>
> "ns:author":[{"name":"Mark"},{"name":"Peter"},{"name":"Karen"}]
>
>
> When bibtex or JSON is imported into a bibserver instance (such as
> bibsoup.net) the parsers will create the third option - author is a
> list of objects, thus author objects can easily be extended with other
> info.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not exactly sure what it means to say that "some values are objects",
>>
>>
>> I think it means "some keys, such as "author" , may have object-values as
>> well as string-values. Mark?
>>
>> --
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>> University of Cambridge
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