Most of the rough edges are around some of the one-time administrative actions
like setting up new libraries, locations, and term schedules, although there’s
also some UI improvements in our near future.
FWIW, we just just 'finished' a first pass at little Rails engine around
managing location data:
https://github.com/pulibrary/locations
It, too, is a little rough around the edges (esp wrt views) and has some
site-specific stuff, like a gazillion 'location codes' to make it work
with existing systems...but that's sorta why we built it.
-Jon
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Jon Stroop
Application Development Manager
Princeton University Library
jstr...@princeton.edu
On 07/01/2015 11:35 AM, Chris Beer wrote:
Hi Ken,
We’ve recently been working on rebuilding an application for managing our
hours. It’s Ruby on Rails, not-yet-in-production, full of rough edges, and has
some Stanford-specific business logic, but it’s relatively simple and
(probably) works for us:
https://github.com/sul-dlss/library_hours_rails/releases/tag/v0.0.1
<https://github.com/sul-dlss/library_hours_rails/releases/tag/v0.0.1>
Currently, it’s envisioned as a backend service for staff to add and manage
hours, with downstream consumers using the API to present the hours as
appropriate. Our initial consumers include the main library website, our
library catalog, and some other business process applications. We’ve also
started thinking about embeddable HTML views of the hours to replace some of
the clunky processing we’re currently doing in Drupal, but haven’t pursued that
yet.
Interesting features include:
- JSON-API view of a location’s hours; (what I assume is a bespoke..) Drupal
calendar feed; import and export for spreadsheets of hours;
- multiple library (and location-within-a-library) support;
- granular access control for updating hours; we have the notion of global
hours administrators, but expect to also support library- and location-specific
authorization, allowing library managers to set and update the hours for a
subset of our locations [1];
- support for setting operating hours for a term and/or exceptions for
particular days (e.g. holidays and the like) using an in-place editor;
- we have a notion of location-specific messages associated with exceptions to
the normal schedule (e.g. the Art library is closed this week for Y), which can
be reflected in applications that consume the library hours
Most of the rough edges are around some of the one-time administrative actions
like setting up new libraries, locations, and term schedules, although there’s
also some UI improvements in our near future.
Thanks,
Chris Beer
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford University Libraries
[1] Although I’m more interested in allowing any staff member to update the
hours, and provide better notifications when a location’s hours change; that
said, strong access control is much easier to reason about and codify..
On Jul 1, 2015, at 6:01 AM, Ken Irwin <kir...@wittenberg.edu> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm hoping to find some sort of web-based app that can manage the library's
hours of operations, including:
* Displaying today's hours
* Displaying an upcoming schedule of hours
* Updatable though a GUI interface by non-techy library staff
* Able to update our Google Places account hours (which, I note,
currently lists our school-year hours as our open hours today), perhaps on a
daily basis
* Preferably a stand-alone thing that can provide data on an ad hoc
basis (as opposed to a CMS-specific thing like a WP plugin or a Drupal module)
* PHP preferred but not necessary
* OSS / free preferred but not necessary
I feel certain that someone else has already wanted this enough to create it.
Anyone have a solution they're happy with?
Thanks
Ken
