[Air-l] Citing Podcasts

[Richard Berry]

I've cited a few Podcasts and I agree it would be useful to have an 
agreed approach but I'd suggest that whilst Podcasts are usually 
downloaded via an aggregator (such as iTunes or juice) the file will 
not stay in the xml feed for long and for citation you'd need to link 
to the actual mp3 file. Inline citation should include the date or 
episode number for easy reference, e.g "DSC391" and so on

cheers

Rich

Richard Berry
Community Radio Project Manager
Admissions Tutor: BA (Hons) Media Production (TV & Radio)and BA (hons) 
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The Media Centre
University of Sunderland
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Halavais <halavais at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 8:27 pm
Subject: [Air-l]  Citing Podcasts

> On 8/1/06, David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Negroponte, N. (2006) "Ted Talk: Nicholas Negroponte". in New York,
> > February, 2006,   http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
> >
> > But that doesn't tell you it is a podcast and crucially it doesnt
> > tell you that the part I cited is 5 minutes, 42 seconds in. This
> > useful guide to Harvard citation 
> http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/> using/harvard_system.html 
> says BS:5605:1990 http://www.mamc.ac.in/
> > British.pdf doesnt include recommendations for electronic 
> sources. Is
> > there an advanced Harvard Style Lab somewhere coming up with
> > standards for this stuff? What would you do? Should I just make 
> up my
> > own style?
> >
> 
> I think that David's question worthwhile, and it comes up in citing
> blogs and other electronic media as well. In fact, we have earlier
> threads here, I believe, about whether citations to web sites should
> be by site, or by individual page, or some other indicator.
> 
> I think what is most important about a citation is findability. So,
> generally, if I can find the resource at a URL, I'll list the URL. 
But
> given the capriciousness of URLs, more information is often needed as
> a "backup," if this original citation fails.
> 
> For net resources I *expect* are likely to change, I have often
> considered citing a copy of the page archived by the Internet 
Archive,
> or my archived copy of the page. Or, alternatively, provide a link to
> a copy of the bibliography that can be automatically or manually
> updated. If the latter were used, it could also provide something 
like
> a trackback mechanism to do links forward.
> 
> - Alex
> 
> 
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