[Building Sakai] Citations Improvements - soliciting comments to SLIB-121

[John Leasia]

Hello -
IU and UMich have talked about making some changes to the UI for the 
Citations tool/helper in Resources (an optional feature that helps 
create lists of references pulled from outside repositories). A Jira - 
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SLIB-121 - has been created to 
track the work, and a draft of some of the UI changes are detailed 
there. We'd appreciate any comments/suggestions to the Jira in the next 
couple weeks from those using Citations as we'd like to get going on 
making the changes. This is part of a re-look at citations in general, 
which includes some back-end bug fix work and improvements to handle 
Open URL1.0 format and multi-selection, and other things listed below.

1. The Citations Helper module doesn't handle new lines, as listed in 
the specification - http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_fields_02.asp

This has been referenced in an existing JIRA issue, SAK-19154.

*How to handle long fields*

If the information following any one tag is more than 70 characters 
long, it is allowable (though not necessary) to insert a carriage 
return/line feed at the end of 70 characters, and continue on the next line.

Entries are handled currently on a line by line basis. It's possible the 
code could be modified to allow for tag entries continuing onto the next 
line, and this is something that would allow for better compatibility 
with EndNote files. Of course this would require some testing to ensure 
that it wouldn't break existing functionality.

2. SAK-20590 Import from RIS (EndNote): First citation from text file is 
always missing

This issue has been fixed and was related to a carriage return line feed 
issue. Files saved on a Windows machine were putting empty characters 
into the line, causing the string matching to fail. The data is now 
cleaned before processing.

3. SAK-20589 SAK-18495 and SAK-20588 have been edited to reflect the 
fact that they are duplications of an existing (and fixed) bug, SAK-16091.

4. SAK-16091 is fixed in version 2.7.2, however it still needs its patch 
made into an upgrade script.


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