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

[Adam Marshall]

ta have repoprted this: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18495

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Dunn, Jon William Butcher [mailto:jwd at indiana.edu]
| Sent: 12 May 2010 21:53
| To: Adam Marshall; sakai-dev
| Cc: Jill Fresen
| Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] problems with importing RIS data into
| reading list
| 
| 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&&que
| ry=RI
| S&summary=true&description=true&body=true&type=1&pid=10010&component=10
| 704&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