Group: CiteULike-discussion - Forum Thread

Hi there, I like CiteULike a lot. And I like tags for filtering. But wouldn't it be a really usefull and great feature to get the ability to sort the publications, after filtering them by tag, by, maybe: Author, date, institute, title? In this case a tagcloud as availably for "author" is by far not as senseful as a sorting feature which should be really easy to implement. Those who don't like sorting features need not use it... :-)

At the moment for such an overview I always need to export the list and then discover it offline with e.g. JabRef. A real gap in usability! I'd be happy if that could be added! :-)

I'll throw in my vote for this one, esp. sorting by date of publication.

That would be a very useful and handy feature! Sorting by, for example, BibTeX labels (author, date, etc as akriesch suggests) would be great.

Keep up the great work!

Such a feature would be most useful...agree that it's something of a gap right now.

yep definitively ! sorting by date, reading priority, popularity among others and maybe some rating because what i really want to know is if others find an article interesting after reading it not before.

vote for this ! finding a paper in hundreds without sort-by-date is terrible

Add my vote to this request.

you have my vote on this one

an additional comment, i think that if citeulike manage to sort the lists by year, then it would be easy to build a histogram like this one http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.17.1607 , i would find it very useful.

I'd also like to add a sort by the individual who posted--we are currently using a group library for a project, and would like to be able to add notes easily to the individual works we each have added. Is there a way to incorporate this kind of sort without going back to each individual's own library (which, of course, is co-mingled with other groups and projects)? Thanks!

Indeed, most needed feature here too.

I vote for this too. Thanks for everything, cheers

Yes sorting filter are the most needed features!

I have written to Richard and Chris to recommend a quick solution by using Microsoft RSS Simple List Extensions. It will be benefit to all Internet Explorer 7.0 or Vista users. If you use Vista, or you have IE 7.0 installed in your computer, please visit this page:

http://heep.geog.ufl.edu/courses/foundgis/FeedSLE_implementation_test.xml

This XML file is based on the RSS feed I saved from citeUlike. I added few lines of code then the feed can be sorted by list order, title, author, publication name, publication year and of course tag name; the feed can also be filter by Tag name, author, year and publication name (journal name).

Only few lines need to be added to the RSS feed. If you are interested to see how to implement it, please try it. You do not have to be a programmer to do this:

1. in the namespace definition part, add a new namespce:

xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005"

2. Under the Channel tag (before "</channel>"), add the following text. You can rename the labels in the following text if you want.

<cf:treatAs>list</cf:treatAs> <cf:listinfo> <cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="text" /> <cf:sort ns="" element="author" data-type="text" label="Author" /> <cf:sort ns="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/" element="publicationName" label="Publication Name" data-type="text" /> <cf:sort ns="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/" element="publicationYear" label="Publication Year" data-type="date" /> <cf:sort ns="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/" element="category" label="Tag Name" />

<cf:group ns="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/" element="category" label="Tag Name" /> <cf:group ns="" element="author" data-type="text" label="Author" /> <cf:group ns="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/" element="publicationYear" label="Pub. Year" /> <cf:group ns="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/" element="publicationName" label="Pub. Name" /> </cf:listinfo>

You can view my XML source. I hope my suggestion can be adopted very soon.

If you like this idea, please show your support!

Thank you.

If you do not have IE 7.0 or Windows Vista, you may check the screenshot to see how the sorting and filter work by using RSS SLE:

http://heep.geog.ufl.edu/courses/foundgis/sle_rss.jpg