Automatic Link Generation / Connection to Link Resolvers of University Libraries

1 Requirements

Almost every university library runs a link resolvers that pints users to the relevant offer / item / ressource in their collection or tha points to items at other available places / libraries.
 
Thus, it makes sense to use the data that is already available in a structured format in the bibliographic lists to create OpenURL URLs that trigger the link resolver of an institution / library. This means, that for every item on a bliographic list, a link to the ressource at the respective instituion is being created. Lecturers / users do not have to do anything but upload a bibtex / ris list, and links to the legally available ressources of the uni / library are created "auto-magically".
 
For those institution who use a SSO mechanism like Shibboleth this might lead to instant access for students, without having to log on again, to those ressources that have already been licensed as a online ressource of an institution. Besides this, the general acceptance and usage of the bibliographic module might be boosted as this feature makes it more attractive for a wider range of users (and thus less PDF scans have to be uploaded).

1.1 Basic requirements

Some things need to be configurable system-wide for an ILIAS installation:

1. the BASE URL of the link resolver, i.e. http://www.redi-bw.de/admin/linkresolver.php in our case
2. OpenURL format  in which the request is sent: either OpenURL 0.1 (for downwards compatibility, simpler to implement) or OpenURL 1.0 (the current standard)
3. the encoding of the data: UTF-8 vs. ISO-8859-1 (the best option would be UTF-8, if I had to chose)
4. a systemwide logo that is used as the link in the bibliograpc list

1.2 Additional Info on OpenURL

• OpenURL Syntax Description: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/?catid={2F09A3E3-A22B-4CB1-8434-930CDB7264A7}
• OpenURL Wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL
• COinS: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS

2 Status

• Scheduled for: Release 5.0
• Funding: Funded by Universität Freiburg
• Maintainer: Martin Studer
• Implementation of the feature is done by Studer+Raimann AG
• Contract settled: Yes
• Tested by / status: Marko Glaubitz, Uni Freiburg

3 Additional Information

Contact the following persons if you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding:

• Information about concept: Marko Glaubitz (marko.glaubitz@rz.uni-freiburg.de)
  
• Information about funding: Marko Glaubitz (marko.glaubitz@rz.uni-freiburg.de)
• Information about implementation: (name, e-mail)

4 Discussion

MST, 14 Apr 2014: I support this request.

Marko Glaubitz, 08.05.2014: Has this feature been scheduled fpr 4.5 or not?

JF 12 May 2014: We appreciate this feature and schedule it for 4.5.

5 Implementation

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