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  • From: Dana Chandler <dchandler AT mit.edu>
  • To: acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [acawiki-general] How Browse displays and multiple authors
  • Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:30:09 -0400

Hello --

I have a few questions about/suggestions for improvement, I wanted to run them by everybody.

First, is the browsability of article summaries. It seems rather awkward to put "journal" as the first field that the articles can be viewed by. There are way too many values for this to be a useful field to sort on first, especially since many articles are coming from conferences that might not be known. The most natural first category seems to be Subject because you can scan all the choices and decide what you're interested in. Next, it seems like it would be useful to add in an "Author" field to browse by.

Second, I was wondering about the author field and whether it accepts and parses multiple values well. So that if an Author were a browseable field, would it be able to pick out each of the multiple authors so that clicking on any of them would cause the article to show up? Also, authors are entered "First name, Last Name"... would acawiki be able to pick out the last name?

Finally, for citations, is there any reason why Volume/Issue/Page number has been omitted from the citation for a journal? 

Best,
Dana

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Dana Chandler
Ph.D. Student, Economics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Economics
Cell: (312) 618-5216
Web: http://danachandler.com





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