Hi Koustubha That's a great feature to add to Koha. Congratulations on this. The only part that I worry about is using the bibliomumber for access: If you were to ever re-install and wanted to export the bib data and re-import then you would be likely to get different biblionumbers for records, so you would lose the link to the images. I would have thought that there should be some unique number or code for each title which you might put into a tag such as the 024 MARC21 tag (Other Standard Identifier): http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd024.html Maybe have the tag and subfield as a system pref? All the best. Ian On 11/12/2010 10:55, Koustubha Kale wrote:
Hi All, I have received sponsorship from "Sikh National Archives" to add the ability in Koha to display book covers scanned and stored locally in the server. "Sikh National Archives" have a lot of old / rare books& manuscripts which do not have ISBN hence this requirement.
Here are the customer requirements in brief : 1. Provide facility to upload scanned cover images linked to biblionumber. 2. Create required mysql tables to hold cover images. 3. Provide global system preference to control display of local cover images in OPAC. 4. Create system preference to decide priority of cover images from multiple providers such as Amazon, Google, Local. 5. Customize OPAC to display only first cover image found as per system preference priority. 6. Customize OPAC search and detail pages to display local cover images linked to biblionumber. 7. Provide user rights management to control upload of images.
I have added a RFC to wiki here : http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Local_cover_images_RFC
I have added this information to Bug 1633 here : http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1633
Requesting for comments and suggestions..
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