Hi David, I wonder if pulling this information from the MARC record could slow us down in some places where usually the information is only pulled from biblio/biblioitems.
I like the idea of making the display configurable, but maybe not only using CSS, but having a multi-select system preference to choose where to display. Also in testing we should probably consider both LTR and RTL scripts. Hope this helps, Katrin On 22.12.22 05:18, David Cook wrote:
Hi all, The MARC21 880 field allows you to provide alternative graphical representations for pretty much any other MARC field. Typically, in Koha (and perhaps other library systems), we display these alternative graphical representations on the “detail page”. You can see the roman script, the Arabic script, the Chinese script, etc. In Koha, we also show some data in the search results, and that’s more problematic… because the search results should take up a limited amount of space on the screen, but hypothetically you can include many different scripts via the 880. I used to work in a government library in Canada where many of our bibliographic records contained quite a few different 880s. So it does happen. I have a library that has catalogued records using the roman alphabet (ie using Pinyin) and provided Chinese versions via the 880. They’d like to show both the romanized and Chinese versions throughout Koha (e.g. in the cart, checkout screens, course reserves, etc.) I’ve coded some of those customizations, since they only have 880s in Chinese, but I’m increasingly reluctant to make these changes. I don’t want to carry these customizations locally, but I don’t know that the Koha community would accept these changes. What do you all think about this? Should we include every 880 title and author in every screen? Should we maybe include them but hide them by default using CSS and then allow certain libraries to just show particular languages used by their patrons or by checking the current language? I know I can go faster on my own, but I rather go farther with all of you, so please let me know your thoughts : ) David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website :https://www.koha-community.org/ git :https://git.koha-community.org/ bugs :https://bugs.koha-community.org/
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