I think that in referring to "standards," the poster above was referring to the communications protocol. SRW is a quite interesting one, taking all the experience of the z39.50 community and applying it to the world of XML and web services.
The other big issue I have with Bibster is that it is based on bibtex, which may be widely used in the hard sciences, but which is not international-friendly, has a bad data model insufficient to the task of representing the sorts of data that scholars in the humanities (almost none of whom read sourceforge) deal with, etc., etc.
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Let's hope it's better designed than the Keynote file format, though I'm not optimistic.
I think that in referring to "standards," the poster above was referring to the communications protocol. SRW is a quite interesting one, taking all the experience of the z39.50 community and applying it to the world of XML and web services.
The other big issue I have with Bibster is that it is based on bibtex, which may be widely used in the hard sciences, but which is not international-friendly, has a bad data model insufficient to the task of representing the sorts of data that scholars in the humanities (almost none of whom read sourceforge) deal with, etc., etc.