Hi Dan, This is great news. I was wondering with these changes to the OPAC if the Author field will now display the entire contents of the '100' tag (eg. in the MARC record you have "100 1_ $aAndrews, Mark, $d1946-"" will it now shown in the OPAC as: "Andrews, Mark, 1946-" and not just "Andrews, Mark" as it has always previously done?
I hope I haven't confused you with this question. Cheers, Joel On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I sat down with my fellow Evergreen geeks from Project Conifer and > bashed out a rough draft of an item details page that (I think) better > suits academic institutions. We put the new BibTemplate support that > Mike Rylander coded up to good use and added the display of a bunch of > additional fields: > > * Alternate title (246), ISSN (022), General notes (500), Content > notes (505), Use restriction notes (506), Performer notes (511), > Additional authors (700), Preceded by (780), Succeeded by (785) > > It also features a few niceties that any Evergreen site might want to > adopt: > * We replaced the publication info with the full text of the 260 > field instead (so publishers will usually display a place and date, > which makes academics happier when they're citing things). This also > let us hide the separate publication date row entirely. > * To avoid a lengthy set of empty table rows, most fields will be > hidden if they do not contain any content > * We extended the example hierarchical display of subjects to pull > from all 65X fields, rather than just the 650 (using the fancy ^= CSS3 > selector operator - w00t) > * We made the display of URIs work more like the way online > resources have traditionally been displayed (display subfield z as the > link text if you have no subfield y to display) > > We liked the results of the rough draft so much that we immediately > put it into production. > > Our current draft of the item details page is at > > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/conifer/trunk/web/opac/skin/default/xml/rdetail/rdetail_summary.xml > > Some examples: > * A journal with a preceding title: > http://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/lul/xml/rdetail.xml?r=589790 > * A page with a whole lot of metadata to display: > http://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/lul/xml/rdetail.xml?r=738895 > > So, there are still some bits to refine - we don't really want to > display numeric subfields in most cases, and we probably need to to a > better job of handling really lengthy displays - and undoubtedly there > are more fields to add, but I thought it would be worthwhile pointing > out what is possible in Evergreen 1.6 and thank Mike for putting the > piece in place that makes building highly customized item displays > easy for mere mortals. (Thanks too to Bill Erickson for making > BibTemplate work on Internet Explorer!) > > -- > Dan Scott > Laurentian University >
