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[Kristina Hoeppner <994339@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Shane,

Some time ago when I was at the University of Luxembourg, I put forward
a similar wishlist item to expand the bibliography feature as it is very
basic in Mahara. You can read the updated file at
https://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=2906 under "My Glossaries and My
Bibliographies" (yes, back then everything still had the "my" ;-) ).

In the end we did not pursue that further for a few reasons among them
being that Mahara was not a bibliography tool and was missing some
crucial features to become one. There are other tools out there that
would do it much better. As you can see from the suggestions, a HTML
page that can be viewed directly in Mahara could be generated, e.g. from
Zotero and then replaced whenever a new item was added. Alternatively, a
Zotero RSS feed could be used. The output these days is much better than
it was back in 2009. If you haven't published your entire Zotero library
publicly, you can create an API key and append that to the RSS feed URL
you get for a collection and thus get a functioning RSS feed (cf.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21954 ).

The advantage of creating a HTML page from a bibliography program is
that you have the correct bibliographic record where as Mahara doesn't
do that. The advantage of a Zotero feed is that the latest items are
always shown.

Would that be a possibility for you and you colleagues?

Cheers
Kristina


** Bug watch added: mahara.org/view/ #2906
   http://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=2906

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Title:
  Wishlist: Ability to categorise publications and books for academic
  portfolios

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently all "Publications and Books" in the resume section are
  lumped together in chronological order. I am introducing an academic
  colleague  to Mahara and she is trying to setup her CV using the
  Resume tool. She would like to categorise publications because a book
  chapter represents a different value or weighting than a research
  paper.  Colleagues looking at the CV would want to see the different
  publication types separated into categories.

  If the portfolio user is free to created their own categories it may
  save some work implementing this feature.

  Thanks.

  Mahara 1.5.0

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