[Koha-bugs] [Bug 7187] Prioritize cover image sources such as Amazon, Google and add fail over i.e. if first source fails, go to next

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7187

--- Comment #46 from Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm at hanover.ca> ---
Hanover has started using Bywater's Coce server.  :-)

It did not work for us at first but is working this week.
It certainly does provide a wider range of jacket images than Amazon,
especially for older titles and non-book media.
Considerations:

1) The first ever call for a particular jacket prompts the Coce server to
search for it, but it is not returned to the Koha search until the page is
refreshed or search done again or details page opened. That is easy for staff
to work with but not so good on the OPAC where so many entries load with no
images until Coce has retrieved them at least once.

2) Coce is only set up to work for OPAC, not staff interface. If we had the
choice, two options the same as for Amazon jackets, to turn it on for either or
both would be nice. Then staff could judge when Coce returns enough images to
turn on for our users.

We have decided to run with both Amazon and Coce for now, so that in time the
image links we need will be generated. Two jacket images looks untidy but until
the server has most of the links, two jackets sometimes is better than no
jacket frequently.
The more libraries use the server, the sooner it will be able to provide a
comprehensive resource for jacket images.

Thank you to everyone who worked on this and Bywater for providing the server
service.

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