Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#442 closed enhancement (fixed)

Add abbreviated item title and formatting logic

Reported by: stakats Owned by: simon
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.0 Beta 4
Component: ingester Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:

Change History (12)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman

  • Component changed from ingester to data layer
  • Owner changed from simon to dstillman
  • Priority changed from major to minor

Taking — sounds like this should happen in the data layer.

Question: if they change the Title field after the item has been added, should we regenerate the Short Title? Options are Yes, No, and Only If The Short Title Differs From the Default Generate Short Title.

comment:2 follow-up: Changed 10 years ago by dstillman

Er, the third option would be, Only If The Short Title Doesn't Differ From the Default Generated Short Title.

comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed 10 years ago by erazlogo

  • Description modified (diff)

Replying to dstillman:

third option makes most sense

comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by simon

on ingest, i will auto-truncate to first colon or question mark, or, if there are no colons or question marks, refrain from populating the field

comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman

(In [1306]) Addresses #442, Add abbreviated item title and formatting logic
Closes #578, rename "Publication" to "Book Title" on bookSection type

Also moved URL above call number on all fields.

comment:6 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman

  • Component changed from data layer to ingester
  • Owner changed from dstillman to simon

comment:7 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman

(In [1315]) Addresses #442, Add abbreviated item title and formatting logic

Add shortTitle field, just for real this time

comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by simon

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [1328]) closes #442, Add abbreviated item title and formatting logic

comment:9 Changed 10 years ago by stakats

  • Resolution fixed deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

We still need to add logic on ingest to populate this field. shortTitle should include all text up to but not including the first colon, or all text up to and including the first question mark.

Since Endnote's XML export (which we don't yet support but should) includes short-title we want to be sensitive to situations where we shouldn't use our logic and instead should just pull in the abbreviated title text. I'm not aware of any other formats that include abbreviated title at this time.

comment:10 Changed 10 years ago by simon

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from reopened to closed

(In [1343]) closes #442, Add abbreviated item title and formatting logic

comment:11 Changed 10 years ago by stakats

Simon, I noticed that titles without a colon or that end in a question mark do not automaticallycreate any shortTitle. This is the expected behavior from your code, but I wonder if we won't be creating the expectation that the shortTitle field be prepopulated and hence confuse people when it isn't. In other words, we all know that for citation purposes shortTitle will fall back to title, but maybe our users won't...

comment:12 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman

I'm OK with the current functionality--I think as soon as someone tries to generate a bibliography from an item with just a title and not a short title, they'll figure out what's going on. I'd be inclined to wait and see if people are confused rather than populating the field unnecessarily.

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