YABA and Syndicating Bib Data
I’ve decided we need a new acronym: YABA. Here’s a nice example, with support for Atom and RSS synidication. However:
- the feeds don’t contain the bib metadata itself
- it escapes content as CDATA (I really hope Atom doesn’t make this hack necessary!)
- do we really need YABA?
In related news, Mike McCracken at the BibDesk project is looking into syndicating MODS data via Atom. I really like this idea.
Update: Just to be clear, part of my point above is that BibTeX is not suitable for syndicating (in the more exapansive sense of not just a representation of the metadata, but the metadata itself). It’s neither XML, nor would I call it a modern representation of bibliographic metadata. MODS, on the other hand …
