Re: [dspace-community] RE: citation in item view?

[Andrea Schweer]

Hi Grant, responses in-line below. On 23/11/15 23:09, Denkinson, Grant W. wrote: I’d like us to offer a service as good or better than the publishers where you can get a citation in plain text or in a form that can go directly into a reference manager. There are some tickets in our issue tracker that are related to what you're asking for: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2471 - Ability to export citations in common formats (e.g. RIS) https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1439 - Generate the citation for a DSpace item from other metadata fields Both are currently marked "volunteer needed" - so someone needs to write code for this functionality and/or share code they already have locally. You might like to "vote" for these and/or leave comments. This won't guarantee that this functionality will be developed, but if others have code to share, seeing that there is interest in the community should make it more likely that the code actually is shared. You could also look through the list of DSpace use cases (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Use+Cases) and make sure there are use cases that cover this area of functionality. You may know that DSpace is currently going through a roadmapping process; the use case list will help inform future development. I have code locally that allows people to export to EndNote. However, (a) it would probably need some serious clean-up before it would be of use to others; (b) since a lot of the metadata fields needed by EndNote don't exist in the standard DSpace metadata registries, each site would need to do quite a bit of configuration to enable this; and (c) it's XMLUI-only. The deadline for feature pull requests for 6.0 is now past I believe, but we could look into contributing this for 7.0 if people are interested (keeping in mind that this may involve a bigger rewrite anyway). We also have (separate) functionality to export citation or citation+abstract to MS Word for a single item as well as for search results. I’d also like a “share” button that allows people to send a link to whatever social media platform they use. This is a relatively easy customisation if you have technical people working on your repository. You might like to post to dspace-tech (including your DSpace version, whether you're using XMLUI or JSPUI, and if XMLUI then which theme) and ask for help with this. These both come from (still evolving) thinking about what we want a user to do when they get to a record on our site: Read the manuscript, make a note for later, cite it, tell others… I’m also interested in what else they might do next: read other similar papers, find more from the same author or research group, make contact with the author or research group etc. I really like this approach for figuring out what should be on repository item pages! If you get anything more out of your brainstorm, please add use cases to the DSpace wiki (or even just add one big placeholder one with pretty much the information you put into this e-mail). cheers, Andrea -- Dr Andrea Schweer IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand +64-7-837 9120 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-community+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-community@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.