[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Supporting RefWorks

[Mike Rylander]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:59 AM, David Fiander <david at fiander.info> wrote:
> If it's that easy it would be great. I suspect that I thought it was
> hard because getting a proprietary ILS to export to RefWorks is a big
> hack.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to see both "Export this record" and "Export this bookbag".

Indeed ... and there is a request on the table for an "ephemeral"
bookbag that can be built anonymously (perhaps using a record ID list
in a cookie, via JS).

--miker

>
> - David
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:10 PM, David J. Fiander <david at fiander.info> wrote:
>>> The challenge to RefWorks is not generating the data in the correct format,
>>> it's the fact that poking the "export to RefWorks" button transmits the data
>>> directly to RefWorks. Unlike other formats, one doesn't download the data
>>> and then upload/import it elsewhere.
>>>
>>> See the powerpoint at
>>>
>>>        http://www.library.utoronto.ca/its/presentations/OPACtoRefWorks.ppt
>>>
>>> for implementation details.
>>>
>>
>> It looks like we just need to prefix a link to our RefWorks supercat
>> feed with something like
>>
>> http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/express/ExpressImport.asp?g=RWToronto&vendor=RefWorks%20Tagged%20Format&url=
>>
>> no?
>>
>> --
>> Mike Rylander
>>  | VP, Research and Design
>>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
>>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>>  | email:  miker at esilibrary.com
>>  | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com
>>
>



-- 
Mike Rylander
 | VP, Research and Design
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  miker at esilibrary.com
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com