Generalised approach to reference linking for OAi metadata-compliant archives

Draft only! Based on discussion at Opcit tech meeting 16 February 2001. Comments to Steve Hitchcock.

Object Action Requirements Partners Issues
A Target article Extract reference list
Identify places to put links
Archive data
Les' XML deciter?
+ ?
Archives
Opcit
Ref list to remain as OAi-accessible document on data provider's server (c.f. FEDORA)
B Reference list Parse reference strings
Create individual reference records
Zhuoan's citation parser
+ ?
Opcit  
C Reference records Add reference records to citation database
Check, compare with existing publication records, journal-ref data to determine (OAi) ID/URL
Software (which?)
Citation database
+ ?
Opcit  
D Target article
Citation data
Add links to target article
Export citation data to:
- citation-ranked search engine
- other OAi services
Linking knowledge (position, format - from A) 
Linking software (Spotcites for pdf?
for dvi/Tex?)
+ ?
OAi-tagged citation records
Archives
Opcit
3rd party, e.g. SFX, jake
Single archive service: ref-linked target article to be accessed on archive provider's server
Cross-archive service: where are ref-linked papers to be served from?
Virtual archive A-D   Archives
Opcit
3rd party
Synchronisation