An easy as pie jekyll plug-in for creating bibliographic references the Linked Research way

Abstract

Linked Research is the new black. A paper written in PDF is so last century. With Linked Research, you can create much richer references to other articles, which this plug-in is intended for.

Afraid that your references won't be indexed by the common crawlers today? No worries, thanks to the fact that we just print normal references anyway, this should not be a problem. However, the crawlers really should learn how to use Linked Data, and the more of us that will start annotating or papers with Linked Data the more this will start happening.

Introduction

Jekyll is a static site generator. It allows you to program a couple of rules in order to generate your HTML pages.

Bibliographic references in [RDFa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa) using the [cito vocabulary](http:/purl.org/spar/cito/) and the [bibo ontology](http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/)

This makes sure you can write papers, blog posts or books in HTML using jekyll to generate the references for you by describing the references once in a [JSON-LD](http://json-ld.org) file.

Related work

This related work also tries to take Linked Research to the next level:

dokieli - an amazing editor that even has
RASH - using these stylesheets and javascript, you will be able to generate LNCS and ACM template without any issues.

How it works

See the README.md on our github repository to see it in action.

Conclusion

We can now have references that work on the web with a similar convenience to the latex workflow. e.g., check out us citing the csv spec [1].

References

[1]: Y. Shafranovich: ``Common Format and mime Type for csv Files'', ietf (2005)