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

[James Eng]

Hi Adam,

I can't address most of the specific issues at the moment, but it
seems to me that many of the improvements mentioned on that page would
be valuable to everyone. Even for things that are very specific to
Oxford might best be handled by implementing optional hooks in trunk
of ciations and then seperating the Oxford-specific bits into a local
adapter. That way, you avoid having to do lots of patching on sakai
code, and others get advantage of your improvements. I suggest you
create Sakai JIRA tickets soon for as much of this as possible
(without the Oxford-only parts).

Just my opinion.

Jim



On 4/20/12, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> This all looks good to me.
>
> You know we added openURL support to CH? I take it you are building on that
> work?
>
> Also have you considered allowing
>
> 1/ the lists to be reordered?
>
> 2/ the default limit of 10 citations per page to be increased?
>
> 3/ allowing HTML headings & paragraphs to be added cf evaluations tool?
>
> 4/ allow reading lists to be tracked by Site Stats
>
> We have a short project over the summer to make improvements to the tool.
> Here's a list of items to tackle (you wont have access to our internal
> Jira):
>
> http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/ImprovedReadingLists
>
> adam
>
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of John Leasia
> Sent: 19 April 2012 17:44
> To: sakai-dev; sakai-user
> Subject: [Building Sakai] Citations Improvements - soliciting comments to
> SLIB-121
>
> 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.
>
>