University of Bordeaux releases Citation Styles for DSpace

[Bram Luyten]

Hello friends,

Thanks to funding from the University of Bordeaux, we were able to create and release a patch for DSpace 6 XMLUI, adding https://citationstyles.org/ export support.

Learn more:

https://bit.ly/csl-patch-generallist

have a nice weekend!!!

Bram

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[esnemiz]

Dear Bram,

First of all, thanks to Atmire and the University of Bordeaux for providing a free and open-source patch that allowed exporting of items in different citation styles. We have implemented it already in our institutional repository since we find it very useful.

I would like to ask for clarifications though, with regards to the mapping of metadata in the configuration file csl-citation.xml. Since our repository mostly contains journal articles and conference papers, we must include the source (eg Journal title, Book title, Conference proceedings title) in the generated citation. I figured out that for the book title of an item with a book chapter type, it is the property named "containerTitle" after numerous trial and error. I can't figure out what property should I map the title of the proceedings for items with type conference paper and the journal-title for items with type article, magazine article, and newspaper article. If I map the journal-title to the property named "containerTitle", it is displaying the word "In" eg Primavera, J. H. (2006). Overcoming the impacts of aquaculture on the coastal zone [Article]. In Ocean and Coastal Management (Vol. 49, Issues 9–10) instead of Primavera, J. H. (2006). Overcoming the impacts of aquaculture on the coastal zone. Ocean and Coastal Management, 49(9-10) using the APA citation style for example.

Another thing is about page numbers. Some of our custom meta-tags were based on the recommendation of Google scholar (https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#indexing). So we only have "citation_firstpage" and "citation_lastpage" and we don't have the pages or page-range metadata. Is there a way to reuse the values found in citation_firstpage and citation_lastpage for the page range property without having to create a new metadata field for page range?

I hope my questions can be resolved without modifying the java code.

Thanks again and best regards,

Euler

[David Cavrenne]

Dear Euler,

Thank you for your interest in the CSL patch !

Defining the metadata mappings in csl-citation.xml is indeed not an easy task. We have just added a link to the CSL specification (i.e. https://github.com/citation-style-language/documentation/blob/master/specification.rst) in our patch documentation, hoping to provide some guidance about this.

There is specific information in the above documentation which might be useful for the specific use case that you reported:

If a container-title is present, the item is interpreted as a book republished in a collection or anthology;

Also used for whole conference proceedings volumes or exhibition catalogs by specifying event and related variables

Regarding your second question, the idea of combining/transforming different metadata fields is a really interesting use case, thanks for that. This was not in our original scope, but I’m sure that if someone would be willing to fund this, University of Bordeaux could accept a pull request for this work.

Thanks again for installing the CSL patch on your repository !

Best regards,

David

[esnemiz]

Dear David,

Thank you for the CSL specification link. I read in the specification about the property container-title which says: 

container-title
Title of the container holding the item (e.g. the book title for a book chapter, the journal title for a journal article; the album title for a recording; the session title for multi-part presentation at a conference)

Since the properties found in csl-citation.xml are not repeatable, I cannot assign the metadata for the journal-title because I already mapped it to the metadata for the book title. If I map the journal-title to the property journalAbbreviation, it is not picked up by the citation generator. I don't know how https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/ managed to map their metadata since their repository has also mixed types like journal articles and book chapters.

I would love to hear from others in the list who have applied the CSL patch and how they map their metadata to the existing properties in the csl-citation.xml.

Thanks in advance and best regards,

Euler