Well, in this case one of the major goals of this project would be to
remove the dependency on the OPAC for providing a call number browse. We
would like to be able to turn off support for our OPAC here at some
point, since we're not using any longer for keyword searching.
-emily
William C Kurt wrote:
Why not just build a decent cover flow UI over the existing call number
browse in the catalog with Javascript? Just grab the cover images and
display them using something like http://www.deensoft.com/lab/protoflow/
That way you could recreate the 'browsing' experience, not have to have
the user learn a new tool and not have to worry about how you're going
to implement browsing the call numbers (similar to what the Oakville
Public Library is doing on that page).
In the past I put together a quick demo of this (not for call numbers,
just for regular search listings) in an evening:
http://lib-bling.com/unr/unrdemo/unrcoverflowdemo.htm
That's a very rough demo but implementing something similar using
default call number browse in the catalog would probably be not much
more difficult and would provide roughly the experience it seems you're
looking for without having to worry about overly complex solutions.
--Will
Will Kurt
Applications Development Librarian
University of Nevada, Reno
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
phone: 775 682-5679
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Emily Lynema
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse
Hey all,
I would love to tackle the issue of creating a really cool call number
browse tool that utilizes book covers, etc. However, I'd like to do this
outside of my ILS/OPAC. What I don't know is whether there are any
indexing / SQL / query techniques that could be used to browse forward
and backword in an index like this.
Has anyone else worked on developing a tool like this outside of the
OPAC? I guess I would be perfectly happy even if it was something I
could build directly on top of the ILS database and its indexes (we use
SirsiDynix Unicorn).
I wanted to throw a feeler out there before trying to dream up some wild
scheme on my own.
-emily
P.S. The version of BiblioCommons released at Oakville Public Library
has a sweet call number browse function accessible from the full record
page. I would love to know know how that was accomplished.
http://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1413841_mars
--
Emily Lynema
Systems Librarian for Digital Projects
Information Technology, NCSU Libraries
919-513-8031
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