CiteBank Assessment

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The purpose of this page is to track the BHL Digitization Staff's notes, comments, etc. on CiteBank

Metadata apparent to users

Based on using Annals and magazine of natural history http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/15774 in portal and Oversigt over Gronlands Echinodermata samt over denne Dyreklasses geographiske og bathymetriske udbredningsforhold i de nordiske Have http://citebank.biodiversitylibrary.org/node/82785 in CiteBank [annals and magazine not yet complete in CiteBank]

(Note: No. of hits returned -- Portal = 1 CiteBank = 161 for "annals and magazine of natural history" search - lipscombb Jan 15, 2010) - tgarnett Jan 16, 2010To explain further - The 161 hits for "annals and magazine of natural history" in CiteBank include the one journal title-level record from the portal, which conviently sorts first, and gobs of individual article citations derived from the Liverwort Bibliography and the Decapod Bibliography and maybe others. In the later hits, "annals and magazine of natural history" appears in the field "journal title." In the former, "annals and magazine of natural history" appers in the field "title."
- tgarnett Jan 16, 2010A general point. Assume that for any given item, whether it is a journal title, a monograph, an article, or a chapter, that in the long run, there are likely to be multiple citations referring to it and those citations may vary in format an details. Using the example above, "annals and magazine of natural history" has the extension "ser.2" appended to it for this citation http://citebank.biodiversitylibrary.org/node/66388

In CiteBank, as a result of the Biblio module, there a wealth of publication types and various associated fields for each. The following table describes all the pub types currently available in CiteBank, highlighting unique fields associated with each.
- lipscombb Jan 20, 2010 How do the various bibliographic dataset formats, like EndNote, translate to the fields available in the Biblio module?

View Option	Portal	view option	CiteBank
Title Level		book
Brief	title		title (header)
	citation formats		title
	preceding & suceeding titles		publication type
	author		year of publication
	publication info		authors
			publisher
	call no.		city
	subjects		call no.
	link to WorldCat local search		keywords
Detailed	All MARC fields spelled out in plain English!		URL/link to content
Item level			short title
collapsed	enumeration & chronology if. applicable		citation source: "BHL Title"
expanded	Download options from IA		Tags (same as keywords?)
	Contributing Library		Add comment
	Sponsor		view abuse history
	date scanned		copyright concern
	copyright and usage info		export options
			Find in Google Scholar
		journal article	(add. fields to above)
			journal
			volume
			pagination (= no. of pages in article OR pages of article OR page start?)
		book chapter
			book title
		conference paper
			conference name
		conference proceedings
			secondary authors
			conference name
			conference location
		miscellaneous
		thesis
			number of pages
			university

Findings/Recommendations

- lipscombb Jan 15, 2010 It appears that the item level information has not yet been passed to CiteBank.
- tgarnett Jan 16, 2010I checked the metadata for the Citebank item in the Portal. What item-level information are you referring to? It's a one volume monograph.
- tgarnett Jan 16, 2010 Ah. I compared the metadata in CiteBank for the Annals with the metadata in the Portal. Big loss of metadata including but not limited to item-level data. Since the Annals is a multi-volume serial, what will users expect. Users will certiainly have citations for individual article. Maybe for individual issues. But will they have citations for the journal title itself? Unlikely. I guess I am asking is the absence of full metadata including item metadata in CiteBank for this title a bug or a feature?

Scenarios for investigation

What are the various bibliographic entities and relationships and how should they be displayed through the conjunction between the Portal & CiteBank?
What are the search parameters necessary to make these entities and relationships discoverable?

Monographs / Books

Monographic series

Serials

Parts: Articles / Book Chapters / PDFs

Ideally, there should be linkages between PDFs and their parent volumes/titles

Assigned to: Grace, Erin and John

Collections

Like the Darwin project for example

"Component Parts"

As defined by http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/blvl.shtm. - lipscombb Jan 15, 2010 Do we even want to go here? I hope not.
- lipscombb Jan 20, 2010 what if someone creates an "article" that is just a 1-2 page species description, would we then need to consider this a component part?

Assigned to: Bianca and Connie

- ConnieR Jul 28, 2010Citebank has an option to link to GoogleScholar and to a pdf that has been created but there is no option to link to BHL directly. Is there a way to do this automatically? If not can we include a field to add the BHL page link in the PDF generator and have this show up in the citebank record

Website Sections for Review

Each section is to be reviewed for UI (incl. navigation) and functionality.

Search

Assigned to: Bianca and Connie

Browse

Assigned to: John and Grace

Home and Groups

To include review of logging-in, account creation, uploading content, group pages, etc. as included in left-nav box
Assigned to: Erin and Bianca

Wishlist

• Exportable list of search results - lipscombb Jan 12, 2010 From Gemini 1710
  • - lipscombb Jan 20, 2010 ok, it appears you can do this via the browse results, should be available for search results as well
• link from portal back to search results in CiteBank. Basically users should be able to use CiteBank to find the resources they might want, click on the resource link that takes them to their item or title in BHL then maybe via the drop-down menu options (or something) they can go back to their original list of search results in citebank. I don't know if this is at all possible - lipscombb Jan 15, 2010
  • - tgarnett Jan 16, 2010 However, for brief or sketchy CiteBank metadata or metadata of such complexity that it does not easily fit into CiteBank, a one click option to the BHL Portal for fuller metadata could be desirable. Consider the Annals example of above if found on CiteBank. One click to the bib record in the Portal shows previous tite, subsequent title, and a listing of all the volumes. That's valuable data for someone who stumbles on this entry in CiteBank and can't figure out what it is. OTOH, being able to display the full complexity of the metadata in CiteBank might be a simpler solution.
• Browse by "citation source" i.e. index source -- this is available through the Search tab so it should be made available in the drop-down that appears as you mouse over the browse tab and as part of the Browse page - lipscombb Jan 15, 2010
• change "Tagged" to "EndNote" to be clear - lipscombb Jan 15, 2010