[Dspace-general] "Citation" Input Box

[courtois@ksu.edu]

Has anyone created (or thinking about creating) a custom submission form
that prompts the submitter for individual elements of the citation
rather than relying on a single "Citation" input box?

For example, instead of seeing the "Citation" input box, the submitter
might see several input boxes, such as

Article title:
Journal title:
Volume No.:
Issue or Issue No.:
Year:
Starting Page:
Ending Page:

Another way to ask the question: Does the single "Citation" input box
work ok?  My concern is that users could enter all sorts of malformed
citations in a single input box.  Providing a separate input box for
each citation element would likely yield more complete metatdata and 
is similar to the interface for entering citations into bibliographic
database management programs such as EndNote, RefWorks, etc.

This approach seems easy to implement for a single format, e.g.,
articles, but it gets tricky to carry the same approach through
multiple formats within a single submission form.

Thanks for your thoughts on this,

Marty

Martin Courtois
Information Technology Assistance Center
509 Hale Library
Kansas State University
Manhattan KS 66502
Phone: 785 532-4428
Fax: 785 532-3199
E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu