How To: COinS plugin

The COinS plugin embeds bibliographic metadata into Omeka browse and item pages. This allows client software (like Zotero) to retrieve and process the metadata in any number of ways.

Installation

1. Upload and activate the COinS plugin (see Installing_a_Plugin)

Using the COinS plugin

Once activated, the COinS plugin automatically embeds span tags containing bibliographic metadata into the administrative browse and item pages. These span tags are invisible to the user, but are visible to client software that are COinS aware.

If the COinS plugin functionality is not already included in your public theme, and you want to include it, follow these steps:

Within your items/show.php template file write the following code anywhere an empty span tag won't interfere with the XHTML:

<?php
if (function_exists('COinS')):
    COinS($item);
endif;
?>

Within your items/browse.php template file write the following code anywhere an empty span tag won't interfere with the XHTML and outside the loop that iterates through the browse items:

<?php
if (function_exists('COinSMultiple')):
    COinSMultiple($items);
endif;
?>