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Some finer type distinctions can't be done in citoid
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It seems like some finer type distinctions are not possible to do, like the distinction between a book and a catalog post to a book. Perhaps is this something that has been left out accidentally, but I think the type distinction is pretty hard to make. It could be that the providers of information don't really want to do this distinction, as it will lower the traffic to the catalog posts as people would rather go stright to the book.

The distinction is somewhat similar to the difference between a thing and the metadata about that thing, but with the additional constraint that the thing is a book and possibly available as an e-book.

An example of our type map is at mw:Citoid/MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json, compare to Open Graph Reference Documentation and Schema:Org: Book, and it does not include any type for an catalog post. (As an service for those that are new to citoid, the description of the configuration can be found on mw:Citoid#Configure Citoid on a Citoid-enabled wiki.)

I've asked in the Norwegian (bokmål) community if they view this as an important distinction.

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Jeblad, can you provide a diff to an article that shows the kind of citation you want to use?

On the general answer, the citoid can handle nearly any template that your community chooses to write a map for.

First post under "Litterature" is a link to a post from Oria.no, which is a catalog post, and the second is a link to Bokhylla, which is a scan of an actual book. Not sure if the second one open as a scanned book outside Norway, it probably does not, but it is a scanned book! ;)

I think this is a pretty hard problem, so I have asked in the community if this is really necessary.

The place to report this to Zotero would be
https://github.com/citation-style-language/zotero-bits

They're planning to make changes to the data model after 5.0 comes out,
which is currently in beta.

Jeblad, that's not what I want. (Also, perhaps the links are wrong? I can't find litterature or oria in either of them.)

I don't want a link to some other kind of website. I want a diff from a Wikipedia article that is already citing a catalog post, to compare it against a Wikipedia article that cites a book.

I know what it looks like when we cite a book:
{{cite book |title=The Sun is Really Large |last=Expert |first=Alice |year =2005 |publisher= Academic Press |isbn=978-12345678 |oclc=123456 |pages=12–16}}

I want to know what the equivalent "{{cite catalog post}}" citation would look like.

Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Mar 14 2017, 7:22 PM
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