[Using Sakai] Citations Improvements - soliciting comments to SLIB-121
John Leasia
jleasia at umich.edu
Thu Apr 19 09:43:45 PDT 2012
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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