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June 13, 2007

Bibliography wiki

I'm in the process of creating a Women's Studies wiki featuring videos the library owns appropriate to the Intro to Women's Studies class for undergrads.

The coursepack for the class was divided into broad subject categories so I started with those, added a few more and went subject searching in Mirlyn. I imported citations from Mirlyn into Refworks to get the bibliographic format I wanted, created a bibliography then cut and pasted the citations into the appropriate category on the wiki. Linking to the Mirlyn record is problematic. The links you get when you look up the video are based on your session and won't work later so you have to go through a few hoops to cut and paste the URL for the video.

I'm trying to get Women's Studies faculty and students interested in becoming wiki members so they can add and edit the list, too. I think anyone can add a comment now, if they have a WetPaint account. I thought I had a PhD student ready to join but so far no luck but I'm workin' on it!

Any ideas for making this process easier?

Posted by swortman at June 13, 2007 05:36 PM

Comments

Try this construction:
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=sys&request=xxxxxxxxx
where the x's are the record ID for the Mirlyn record you want to link to. The record ID is the last number at the bottom of the MARC tag view. The label is: SYS. These links aren't session specific.
Hope that helps

Posted by: jaheim at June 14, 2007 11:48 AM

Have you looked at the wiki fetaure within CTools, as opposed to a separate wiki site?

Posted by: bskib at June 14, 2007 02:29 PM

I hadn't thought about the CTools wiki but I would rather the wiki be open to everyone, instead of having it specifically for this class. Having to log in sort of defeats the purpose of making wikis open knowledge bases. At least this way everyone can see it but I can act as a gatekeeper to keep from having everyone edit it. If people want to edit they have to contact me.

Posted by: swortman at June 18, 2007 11:43 AM

Coming soon to a Mirlyn record near you: a "Permanent URL" entry, which will give you the link to that record without all your session info, so you can cut-and-paste it into whatever you're working on.

Posted by: samarti at June 28, 2007 11:34 AM