One problem with this suggestion is that I want the long title to be the label on other pages (very appropriate in the master bibliography). I would like some flexibility in how my data objects are identified and labeled.
jk On Mar 22, 11:19 pm, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for this email. one quick suggestion: to fix your overlong > titles problem, you can change property names: turn "shortTitle" into > "label" and "label" into "longtitle". > > On 3/22/2011 7:58 PM, Arithmeticus wrote: > > > > > My top-three list for things I'd like to see in Exhibit 3.0: > > > 1. Closer integration with Zotero or other bibliographic programs. > > Such attention would be key, given how the official press releases are > > targeting the academic and library community, who are increasingly > > using, and wishing to display, data housed in reference management > > software. Currently we rely upon Babel to convert data exported from > > Zotero, and Babel has problems. (See a summary of the issues at > >http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/exhibit) Zotero is very active, and > > I'm sure they would be happy to collaborate with the Exhibit team on a > > protocol that eliminates intermediaries. > > > 2. Clearer documentation. The introduction to Exhibit 2.0 was clear, > > engaging, and effective, but once I got past the introductory features > > it was nigh impossible to learn more advanced features. Many > > explanations were written by a programmer for other programmers. Other > > basic features were omitted or relegated to innuendo. I added to the > > wiki when I figured out new tricks, but I had to wonder why such > > conventions weren't there to begin with. I hope some of the grant > > money can be used to corral talent in writing and editing. > > > 3. More complexity in searching and accessing child, parent, and > > sibling nodes. I voiced this wish earlier but I think it was > > unintelligible. My project involves two json sets that need to talk to > > each other. (The number of sets could grow, should the stars align.) > > The first set is a list of all extant writings of a 4th century > > theologian. The second is a bibliography of modern scholarship. On the > > page listing the ancient writings (the 1st json set), I wish the lens > > to list modern studies (the 2nd json set) that translate or reproduce > > each writing. You'll see the result of that effort here: > >http://www.kalvesmaki.com/7bx24/corpus.htm (a temporary location; the > > site will not be made public for some time) > > The problem here is that under "editions" and "modern translations" > > the entire title of the bibliography item is listed. These titles are > > overly long; I'd like to shorten them to merely an author-date > > convention (or give the user the option to choose what to display). So > > in accessing the object I want also to choose what child node should > > serve as the displayed access text for that object. Plus I'd like to > > give the user the option to alter the sequence of the objects > > (chronologically, alpha by author/editor, and availability). > > > Thanks MIT team for taking this on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
