[Koha-bugs] [Bug 737] Map of library in search system

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=737

Stefano Bargioni <bargioni at pusc.it> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Stefano Bargioni <bargioni at pusc.it> ---
I added another "example in the wild" in the wiki.

The library maps at Pontificia Università della Santa Croce work independently
from Koha. They are 12 years old and run for Aleph 300 and Amicus too.
The tool is based on a set of gif images and a database of objects to pin on
the corresponding map. Every map has properties:
id, filename, name
and every object has properties:
id, type, map_id, x-coord, y-coord, string_value.

Since my library basically uses itemcallnumbers in the form "[A-Z][A-Z]
[0-9]+", the value used for objects are the first two letters. Other libraries
can have different type of itemcallnumbers, and this implies an effort to
satisfy every kind of situation.

The returned page contains a gif image with letters, dynamically composed using
GD Perl module, and an html map for links to a special virtual bookshelf. Look
at
http://bib6.pusc.it/cgi-bin/piantine/search?piantina=0SC
for an example.

Albert, http://catalogo.pusc.it/pusc_opac.js is not very useful. It is a set of
customizations of my opac. One of them allows to build the "compass" link, but
this can be easily done with a little modification to the opac-detail template.

The tool also allows to edit maps -adding, moving, or deleting letters- using a
web interface.

An interesting solution I hope to introduce could be to avoid GIF and use SVG:
it opens up a lot of dynamic features on the web page, through javascript.

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