citation in item view?
Borda, Susan
Cameron Kainerstorfer
We’ve begun adding citations for our Annual Medical Student Research Forum collection (http://repositories.tdl.org/utswmed-ir/handle/2152.5/1482). The reason we opted to add them is for convenience, so users could simply copy and paste as needed. It’s not ideal, because it is specific to one citation format, and is manually-created, but it has come in handy. Part of the decision to add them to that collection was also based on our experience using them with the Library Staff Publications and Presentations collection (https://repositories.tdl.org/utswmed-ir/handle/2152.5/976).
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Borda, Susan
Date: Friday, November 6, 2015 at 10:23 AM
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Subject: [dspace-community] citation in item view?
Reed, Marianne A.
We’re always happy to help, Susan.
Marianne Reed
Digital Initiatives Coordinator
450 Watson Library
University of Kansas Libraries
Jozef Misutka
probably not what you intended to hear but for the record, we are dynamically creating citations from the metadata fetched by REST API using a javascript library.
This way, we can easily add new citation formats, display citations on external sites, add additional information and other things.
Example citation: https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/xmlui/handle/11234/LRT-1478
The citation part is not really complicated but it is integrated into our tool and therefore, cannot be reused easily [1].
However, I would like to mention another approach which would solve this in a generic way for repositories using the handle system.
If DSpace returns specific metadata (title, authors, year, ...) for the handle records themselves [2,3], you could use that for e.g., creating the citation.
It is an analogy to the DOI minimal metadata set (different for different types) but stored transparently in the PID record itself. With minimal effort, it could be used for other services e.g., simple searchable metadata databases. If you find it interesting, you should read [4] - not sure about that specific implementation but the idea of having the semantics included in the metadata is important.
Best,
Jozef
[1] https://github.com/ufal/lindat-common
[2] http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1520?noredirect
[3] https://github.com/ufal/lindat-dspace/blob/lindat/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/handle/HandlePlugin.java#L234
[4] https://rd-alliance.org/groups/pid-information-types-wg.html
Pottinger, Hardy J.
The DSpace committers have had a few discussions on this topic, and it usually boils down to "I think we've already made citations available". Actually formatting the citations to a certain style is probably not a job we want DSpace to do. Especially if there is dedicated citation management software that does a much better job. But, we can always discuss new use cases.
With the new UI project kicking into gear, you may want to add a use case [3] for citations (perhaps just to note that offering COinS, like the XMLUI, is desirable). I just glanced, there does not appear to be a use case concerning citations (yet).
--Hardy
[1] https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=COinS
[2] http://ocoins.info/
[3] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Use+Cases
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Borda, Susan
Denkinson, Grant W.
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.
I’d also like a “share” button that allows people to send a link to whatever social media platform they use.
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.
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Andrea Schweer
responses in-line below.
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.
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.
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.
cheers,
Andrea
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