Make teachPress publications recognizable by academic publishing tools (Google Scholar, Mendelay, Zotero, etc)
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Browser plug-ins such as Mendelay and Zotero, and scholarly publication crawlers such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic, recognize publications via tag systems such as described in the Dublin Core and COinS.
The teachPress publication list can be exported to bibtex which can then be imported into reference managers. This is now a clumsy multi-step process: select a publication, click export, pick file location, save, and browse for the file in a reference manager to import it. This process can be greatly streamlined if teachPress publication records were adorned with Dublin Core or COinS tags (see for instance here: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dc-citation-guidelines/). Citation import would be a one-click effort.
This would also give the benefit of publication list indexing by scholarly web crawlers to enhance site visibility.
Would this be feasible?
Hi, I've had a look about it: The problem is, as far as I understand it, it's mostly about HTML header meta data which are intended for individual articles. So this is an extension of the typical things like title, keywords, etc. This is not intended for publication lists, which would have to set different metadata for each entry in teh same HTML page. So that shouldn't work. But I'm happy to be convinced otherwise. :)
As far as I remember, the papercite plugin produced a list that those tools were able to scan. I believe the plugin itself has been abandoned now (hence why I switched to TeachPress a while ago, thank you for this by the way!), but maybe it's worth looking into its code on Github, see how they did it?