Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?
Dear Laura: We have Millennium and are doing this. We have a few issues with images not being available, but that is a separate problem we are working on: http://mylibraryeu.fmwr.net Millennium is great because your RSS feed can be pulled right back into the WebPAC without requiring an outside source like Yahoo. I would be happy to tell you more about it offline if you are interested. :-) -- In peace, Amy M. Drayer Web and Systems Librarian amost...@gmail.com http://www.puzumaki.com On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Laura Harris harla...@gvsu.edu wrote: Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here: http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default grey box we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. Would appreciate your insight! Thanks,
Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?
Dear Laura: I may have misinterpreted your intent for the tool... I've liked WidgetBox if you want patrons to be able to paste the widget on like a course page that isn't in the WebPAC. http://www.widgetbox.com -- In peace, Amy M. Drayer Web and Systems Librarian amost...@gmail.com http://www.puzumaki.com On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Laura Harris harla...@gvsu.edu wrote: Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here: http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default grey box we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. Would appreciate your insight! Thanks,
Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?
Laura, While not directly related to your question, another route you might want to go is to try and get thumbnail images from other sources (i.e. amazon, openlibrary, etc.) in addition to syndetics and cache them for future use. I do this on our website and I wrote an article on the basics here: (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1009). I can send you the code I have on my server for our complete solution if you want. Here's our new books page, database driven with local thumbnails (http://www.paulsmiths.edu/library/books.php). I also use the same data to send out a new books email every 2 weeks to subscribers. You can sign up here to get a sample (http://library.paulsmiths.edu/newbooks/subscribe.php) and then unsubscribe in your 1st email if you want. Again, if you want the Python code that generates and sends the emails, let me know. Also, if you're a PHP fan, VuFind has some code on downloading book covers here: https://vufind.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vufind/trunk/web/bookcover.ph p Hope that helps in a round-a-bout way. Be Well, Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Head of Digital Initiative Paul Smith's College 518.327.6376 mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Laura Harris Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:07 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images? Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here: http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default grey box we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. Would appreciate your insight! Thanks,
[CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?
Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here: http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default grey box we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. Would appreciate your insight! Thanks,
Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?
Some ideas: 1) Use Feeds Imagegrabber (http://drupal.org/project/feeds_imagegrabber) along with Feeds to create nodes that include their enclosures (cover images) from the RSS feed. Once you have the items as nodes you can use Views and the plethora of Views carrousel-like modules to display them like the LibraryThing widget you prefer =) I think you can also set Feeds to delete nodes older than X days so you don't end up with old nodes lying around. 2) Write out a bit of PHP (or javascript?) in a custom block to just parse the current RSS feed's contents. You'd have to add in the Javascript/Jquery carrousel of your choice. Might be simpler--if you have a coder around or can find the appropriate PHP and/or JS code already available on the Internets. I also thought of (but discarded) Millennium.module; it can create nodes from an ftlist URL, BUT you'd have to run it manually every so often (it has Views integration, so like Feeds you could use views and a carrousel to show the items). Also, it'd be nice to just use a Millennium WebOPAC as a datasource (instead of local MySQL) for Views 3... maybe I can put that into Millennium.module =) _alejandro Laura Harris said the following on 09/04/2010 09:07 a.m.: Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here: http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default grey box we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. Would appreciate your insight! Thanks, -- _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *Ing. Alejandro Garza González* Coordinación de proyectos y desarrollo de sistemas Centro in...@te, Centro para la Innovación en Tecnología y Educación Tecnológico de Monterrey Tel. +52 [81] 8358.2000, Ext. 6751 Enlace intercampus: 80.689.6751, 80.788.6106 http://www.itesm.mx/innovate/ El contenido de este mensaje de datos no se considera oferta, propuesta o acuerdo, sino hasta que sea confirmado en documento por escrito que contenga la firma autógrafa del apoderado legal del ITESM. El contenido de este mensaje de datos es confidencial y se entiende dirigido y para uso exclusivo del destinatario, por lo que no podrá distribuirse y/o difundirse por ningún medio sin la previa autorización del emisor original. Si usted no es el destinatario, se le prohíbe su utilización total o parcial para cualquier fin. The content of this data transmission must not be considered an offer, proposal, understanding or agreement unless it is confirmed in a document signed by a legal representative of ITESM. The content of this data transmission is confidential and is intended to be delivered only to the addressees. Therefore, it shall not be distributed and/or disclosed through any means without the authorization of the original sender. If you are not the addressee, you are forbidden from using it, either totally or partially, for any purpose.
Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?
I would suggest using Yahoo! Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) for something like this. You can feed it your RSS feed, and add in some logic to strip out extraneous information and the grey boxes. -Sean --- Sean Hannan Web Developer Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Laura Harris wrote: Hi, all - I suspect something like this is being done already, so I thought I would check in and ask. Essentially, what I would like to do is display the library's new books on a web page in a graphic format - I'd like it to look very similar to the sorts of widgets that GoodReads or LibraryThing users can create. I threw up a few quick examples here: http://gvsu.edu/library/zzwidget-test-171.htm Now, we have an RSS feed for our new books (Millennium is our ILS if it matters), and as I understand it, the images we get from Syndetic Solutions are parsed as enclosures to that RSS feed. Is there a way to take the RSS feed, and only show those enclosures (if they exist, and are not the default grey box we see if the book doesn't have a cover image) somehow? Or perhaps there's a really easy way to do this that I'm overlooking. Would appreciate your insight! Thanks,
Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / badge with cover images?
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