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Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

[Madrigal, Juan A]

I'd be curious.

Thanks,

Juan Madrigal

Web Developer
University of Miami
Richter Library

On 5/12/11 3:56 PM, "Jason Griffey"  wrote:

>We are actually right in the middle of a massive weeding project here
>at UTC, and my Web Tech librarian, Andrea Schurr (whom some of you
>probably met at C4L this year) built a really cool system to handle
>it. We aren't using ajax (although I argued for it, she talked me out
>of it). However, our project necessitates feedback from subject
>faculty, so it has the ability to allow for the Chemistry faculty, for
>example, to review the discard list, mark items to keep, and that list
>is then further reviewed by Library liaisons to make sure the faculty
>aren't just telling us to keep everything. :-)
>
>It's all pre-populated with our bib data. She's on vacation this week,
>but the plan is to open-source the setup asap. If anyone is
>interested, drop me a line and I'll make sure and let you know when we
>get it up.
>
>Jason
>
>
>On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Ken Irwin  wrote:
>> AJAX for slickness and ease of use. We could do form html, but I'd
>>prefer something that's updated in real time.
>>
>> As for the scanner -- my plan was to pre-populate the database from our
>>OPAC, so we won't need to scan each book individually.)
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
>>Dave Caroline
>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:39 AM
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper
>>
>> Why ajax! just a plain html form
>> and add a barcode scanner, to pick that books data from the db
>>
>> Scan shelf, scan contents, you now have updated list of contents and
>> books gone awol
>>
>> jump to updating page
>> scan book, update, rinse repeat
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave Caroline
>>

Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

[Jason Griffey]

We are actually right in the middle of a massive weeding project here
at UTC, and my Web Tech librarian, Andrea Schurr (whom some of you
probably met at C4L this year) built a really cool system to handle
it. We aren't using ajax (although I argued for it, she talked me out
of it). However, our project necessitates feedback from subject
faculty, so it has the ability to allow for the Chemistry faculty, for
example, to review the discard list, mark items to keep, and that list
is then further reviewed by Library liaisons to make sure the faculty
aren't just telling us to keep everything. :-)

It's all pre-populated with our bib data. She's on vacation this week,
but the plan is to open-source the setup asap. If anyone is
interested, drop me a line and I'll make sure and let you know when we
get it up.

Jason


On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Ken Irwin  wrote:
> AJAX for slickness and ease of use. We could do form html, but I'd prefer 
> something that's updated in real time.
>
> As for the scanner -- my plan was to pre-populate the database from our OPAC, 
> so we won't need to scan each book individually.)
>
> Ken
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave 
> Caroline
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:39 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper
>
> Why ajax! just a plain html form
> and add a barcode scanner, to pick that books data from the db
>
> Scan shelf, scan contents, you now have updated list of contents and
> books gone awol
>
> jump to updating page
> scan book, update, rinse repeat
>
>
>
> Dave Caroline
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

[Ken Irwin]

AJAX for slickness and ease of use. We could do form html, but I'd prefer 
something that's updated in real time. 

As for the scanner -- my plan was to pre-populate the database from our OPAC, 
so we won't need to scan each book individually.) 

Ken

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave 
Caroline
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:39 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

Why ajax! just a plain html form
and add a barcode scanner, to pick that books data from the db

Scan shelf, scan contents, you now have updated list of contents and
books gone awol

jump to updating page
scan book, update, rinse repeat



Dave Caroline

Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

[Ken Irwin]

It turns out that this is one of those "I should have just searched first" 
questions. Once it became clearer to me that I didn't need a library-specific 
app but that all I really needed was AJAX+CRUD, the problem simplified. 

Solution: http://www.ajaxcrud.com/ 

It looks like it can do all of the basic functions I need, and I can probably 
hack on some extra functionality (like catalog links and color changes) using 
jQuery or minor hacks on the built-in functions. 

Ken

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Re: [CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

[Dave Caroline]

Why ajax! just a plain html form
and add a barcode scanner, to pick that books data from the db

Scan shelf, scan contents, you now have updated list of contents and
books gone awol

jump to updating page
scan book, update, rinse repeat



Dave Caroline

[CODE4LIB] ajaxy CRUD / weeding helper

[Ken Irwin]

Hi all,

I'm about to embark upon a summer weeding project, and would like to do so with 
the help of a little web tool - perhaps one that you've already invented or for 
which a generic AJAX-based CRUD interface already exists. (Mostly I think I'm 
just looking for a low-power AJAX-based CRUD thing.) I'm going to describe what 
I want it to do, and perhaps you can tell me if you think someone has already 
done the heavy lifting on creating something like this.

Back end: a database containing the current shelf-list along with some useful 
bibdata like title, pubinfo, last-checkout-date, total-checkouts, date added to 
collection, plus some fields for the information we'll be inputing on the front 
end.

Front end: an iPad/laptop-friendly touch-or-click interface that will allow us 
to mark individual fields. Some of those would be multiple choice fields like 
"condition of the book". A free text note field. A few Booleans (e.g. "Someone 
says this books is a classic and we may never discard it.", "Listed in Best 
Books for Acad Lib", "I propose we weed this book")

The idea for this interface would be to allow the (de)selector to make notes on 
each title as s/he goes down the shelf. The selector would be able to easily 
see bib data and would be able to change the data as the process goes on. I'd 
prefer to do this on an AJAX model so the database is updated in real time 
rather than relying on more overt form submission.

I described this as a CRUD (Create, Replace, Update, Delete) thing, but I guess 
it's really just "U" - updating.

Do you have a nice easy tool for doing AJAX-y db updating from a UI that would 
allow for the various types of input (pulldowns, Boolean, text fields). 
Preferably, I'd like to be able to do some visual renderings of some of the 
data to match our in-house "sticker" system - yellow dots for "we might weed 
this", green for "we gotta keep this".

Any ideas? I would love to not re-invent this wheel.

Thanks!
Ken