[#SAK-11809] Replace "optional properties" in Resources with citations

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Replace "optional properties" in Resources with citations

Created: 04-Oct-2007 12:03 Updated: 23-Oct-2008 06:28

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Resources, Citations Helper

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trunk [DO NOT USE], 2.5.0

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2.4.x Status:	None
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1.	Develop a mechanism for migrating existing "optional properties" from ContentHosting to the CitationService		Open	Jim Eng
2.	Redesign the UI for "optional properties" so it can be used as a citation		Open	Jim Eng

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Instead of storing the "optional properties" as properties of the resource, those attributes should be citations. That will facilitate direct linking to the resource from the citation and to a citation in standard format (with an openURL) from the metadata about the resource. This is a step toward making the citation a proxie for the digital version of the resource.

We need to provide a mechanism for migrating existing data from ContentHosting to the CitationService.

We need to think through the UI issues of how the Citations Helper interacts with the resources tool, filepicker, etc. (Do we enable searching for a citation for a resource? Do we require the user to enter the data? Does the Citation helper take over the frame temporarily? render in a rectangle within the resources view? render in a pop-up? etc.)

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Jim Eng - 04-Oct-2007 12:27

This ticket is a bit speculative. For 2.6, I'd like to convert the "optional properties" in resources to a citation. I'm imagining that users could get the current properties, which are a subset of Dublin Core, or they could create a citation using one of the media types currently supported in the citation helper (book, chapter, journal article, or report). The citation helper would be used to create the citation. The citation data would be saved in the Citation Service and would (somehow) be available to users when creating references to that resource. We'd need to provide a way for users to migrate existing data from the resources metadata to the citation service. Also, we need to figure out a UI design that makes sense.

Lots of other issues (subtasks) need to be dealt with to make this happen. The biggest hurdle is probably understanding whether this helps users.

One vision is that citations can be proxies for digital content. If you have a citation that links to the latest-greatest source for that resource through your local library or some other repository, you may not need to upload a PDF. And a citation in that form is better in some ways for short-term archiving of the content of a course because the PDF may not be available to users of the archive (for copyright reasons), while the citation helps the user find a copy of the resource they can access.

So the purpose of this ticket is to initiate and organize an investigation of what's needed to make this happen for 2.6 (or later). What do we need to learn about user requirements, technological requirements, etc?