[Building Sakai] problems with importing RIS data into reading list

[Dunn, Jon William Butcher]

Hi Adam,

The RIS import capability in Citations Helper is not as robust as it should
be. There are several existing JIRA issues on this general topic:

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&query=RI
S&summary=true&description=true&body=true&type=1&pid=10010&component=10704&c
omponent=10703&resolution=-1

However, it doesn't look like there's one for this specific issue, so I
would suggest that you go ahead and file a new JIRA.

Steve Smail at Indiana was intending to work on improvements to RIS import
for the Sakai 2.7 release, but he passed away late last year, and we have
not yet been able to fill his position.

If any others in the Sakai community are interested in working on improving
RIS import in Citations Helper, we would certainly welcome the assistance.
Please feel free to contact me if you're interested in this.

Regards,

Jon

-- 
Jon Dunn
Director, Library Technologies and Digital Libraries
IU Bloomington Libraries / University Information Technology Services
Indiana University
jwd at indiana.edu
(812) 855-0953


> From: Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:26:16 -0400
> To: sakai-dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Cc: Jill Fresen <jill.fresen at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Building Sakai] problems with importing RIS data into reading list
> 
> In Sakai, when using the Citations Helper to create a Reading List, and
> selecting the option "Import Reading List" (in RIS format from EndNote), the
> resulting Reading List is missing a lot of data. For example, items are
> labelled as "untitled", author names and dates are missing. There may be many
> other missing fields that are not imported from the RIS data.
> 
> The datafile appear to have the title field "TI" filled in correctly and
> either have authors given as "A1", "A2" or "AU" so why aren't they being
> picked up?
> 
> See attached  screen shots attached, showing the RIS data in a .txt file, and
> the resultant Reading List in Sakai.
> 
> is this the right place to solicit comments?
> 
> adam