citeproc-rb gem, citeproc-hs
Posted in Technology on July 4th, 2008 by darcusb – Comments OffLiam Magee’s been busy trying to finish the Ruby port of citeproc that I started way back. Along that path, a first milestone:
> sudo gem install citeproc-rb
Password:
Updating metadata for 97 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org/
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complete
Successfully installed citeproc-rb-0.0.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for citeproc-rb-0.0.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for citeproc-rb-0.0.1...
While Liam describes it as at best an early alpha release
, this is still an accomplishment worth noting.
In related news, Andrea Rossato has been working on a haskell version, which he plans to integrate into pandoc.
With these two, plus two other in-progress ports—Johan Kool’s python, and Ron Jerome’s PHP—things should be getting interesting. And if these implementations happened to also support RDFa and bibo output, this could enable quite nice round-tripping of citation data.
