1.0 Proposal to tag or highlight selected outputs

We would like to explore the possibility of “tagging” (or similar demarcation) selected outputs in Esploro to differentiate / highlight them.

This tagging will be additional to the current search / refine options (such as Research Unit or Subject).
All forms of outputs (articles, data sets etc) should be eligible for tagging.

For example, we may want to “tag” Covid-19 research papers and data, or other key research on particular themes or goals.

Ideally, there should also be an option of sub-tagging eg. a main tag, and a sub-tag (ie. the option of a tag hierarchy)
(For example. Tag: Research Themes – identifies that the paper belongs to one of our core research themes
Sub-Tag: Digital Economy – identifies which research theme the paper belongs to)

2.0 How tagged items should function
Initially, we would like to explore how these tagged items should be visible / share-able in three ways:

2.1 The tagged items should be added as an option to the Refine Results

2.2 We would like the option to add a button (s) to the front page of the repository to enable users to navigate directly to the tagged outputs (eg a “Covid-19” button).

2.3 These options should enable us to create a URL direct to these tagged options to enable users to go directly to these tagged outputs from other webpages.

3.0 How will the outputs be tagged?
We would like to explore two routes to tagging selected outputs:

3.1 By periodic, retrospective mass-tagging
As we have the DOIs of the outputs to be tagged, could we (the Library) conduct a retrospective, periodic “mass-tagging” / upload / similar (say, every 3 months) in which the outputs to be tagged are tagged in-bulk (by matching DOIs).

3.2 When outputs are entered onto Esploro
There should also be an option to tag an output at the point of upload / record creation in Esploro

Currently you cannot reorder the education history in a researcher record or via the profile. When you add education (without date information) through the profile or researcher record, it automatically creates a new row at the bottom of the list. Thus, if you are adding education information that was missed, this could result in the list not being sorted chronologically. Adding dates in does allow the sort to work properly, but only if you have dates for all education entries. If you only have partial dates, it will sort the numbered entries correctly, and the unnumbered ones will be sorted at the top of the list.

This is incredibly cumbersome and time consuming to resolve since there is no functionality to drag entries to the correct location. When incorrectly sorted entries are found, these have to be manually deleted and re-entered in the correct order.

Presumably/hopefully Researchers will be able to clean this up themselves, but it seems like basic functionality that exists for other fields and would be simple enough to implement for this one. It also aids in our ability to reduce the amount of cleanup researchers are required to do.