Sakaibrary Project Development Priorities for Discussion
Sakaibrary Partners Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia
December 5, 2006
Enhancing existing functionality
Searching
- Add next/previous page arrows to bottom of search results
- Allow user to cancel the current search
- Advanced (fielded) search - author/title/etc.
- Multiple selection of specific search targets and groups
- Improve quality of search results - ranking, merging, problems with particular targets
- Improve reporting of search result set size
- Allow user to view document and detailed citation information from results screen
- Restrict search to full text resources only (may be technically difficult/impossible)
Editing/viewing citation lists
- Allow users to display citations per established styles such as MLA and APA
- Reorder fields in citation editing/display windows - most common or important fields at top
- Split citation list and citation editing screens into standard and advanced sections - allow user to click to expand advanced section
- Add more citation types
- Sorting/reordering of citation list
- Search/list/sort citations across multiple citation lists
- Fix bugs that cause citation list order to change
Import/Export
- Make export interface less confusing
- Add RefWorks export support
- Add support for import from RIS
General improvements
- Terminology changes - improve field labels, screen names (better name than "citation list"?)
- Add more explanatory/help text to screens
- Make window navigation less confusing
- Refactor UI - replace popup windows with floating divs
Management
- Interface for configuring search targets and search sets - possibly support import of search target information from external source (i.e. metasearch engine, ERMS, library web site)
Developing new functionality
New mechanisms for getting citations and links into Sakai
- Google Scholar
- Sakai as SFX target
- Browser plugin approach - like Firefox Scholar (Zotero), Connotea
Research Guides
- Canned searches
- Constrained searches
- Librarian role
- Other
Other integration
- Embedding of citations and citation lists in other Sakai documents
- Support other link resolvers besides SFX