CitableBase.jl

A Julia module defining core abstractions of the CITE architecture.

Behaviors

1. identification. Scholarly resources are identified using the syntax of the IETF URN specification, and have a human-readable label.
2. comparison. Citable resources can be compared using the URN logic of equality, containment and similarity.
3. serialization. Citable resources can be losslessly serialized to plain-text representation in CEX format and instantiated from the same plain-text representation.
4. iteration. Collections of citable content can be processed sequentially

Abstractions of essential types

1. an identifier uniquely identifies scholarly resources using the syntax of the IETF URN specification.
2. a citable entity is a discrete object identified by a URN.
3. a citable collection is a collection of content identifiable by URN.

Documentation

• On line documentation includes a user's guide that builds a sample project with custom identifiers, citable objects and a citable collection to contstruct a reading list of citable books
• The sample project from the user's guide is also in the RL directory of this repository where all the code in the documentation is repeated in unit tests