[Irtalk] Why Are Publishers and Editors Wasting Time Formatting Citations? | The Scholarly Kitchen

[Hilton Gibson]

*Rather than using text to identify digital resources, we should be taking
advantage of the system of identifiers and metadata that exist to
streamline the process of reference creation and validation.*

*This would solve the problem at the root rather than after the fact.*

Instead of identifying people with just their names, we should be using
ORCIDs or ISNIs to ensure disambiguation and machine-processability.
Identifiers can also be used for institutions and publications. Nearly
every article has (or at least should have) a persistent identifier such as
a DOI. Publications have ISBNs or ISSNs. Sound and A/V formats use ISRC,
ISAN, and ISMN identifiers. Special collections and archive materials have
collection identifiers and accession numbers. Data sets are being tagged
with DataCite DOIs, or ARKs. Even concepts and other digital materials can
be identified with URIs. All of these identifiers should have associated
metadata that describe what that object is, be it name, title, or
description.

When authors are submitting references, why doesn’t the community simply
send in a reference that is submitted like this:

*<Author ID>, <Publication ID>, <Object Identifier>, <Publisher
identifier>, <Date (of publication/access)>, and specific location (such as
page number, etc), if necessary.*

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/11/06/why-are-publishers-and-editors-wasting-time-formatting-citations/
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