[Koha-devel] Oddball idea

[Pat Eyler]

On 13 Jun 2002, Chris Cormack wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 16:59, Nicholas Rosasco wrote:
> > This may be the ravings of a sleepless madman, but bear with me for a sec...
> >
> > Someone asked about cross references
> > (ie, look for Cinema -under-> Motion Picture)
> > I (think) we have a feature to store URLs as items in the catalog, right?
> > Couldn't we do a workaround?
> > File cross refs in the catalog as URLs pointing _back to the catalog (ie,
> > the CGI header)_ for the topic they should look under?
> >
> > Nick
> > ...might just be crazy, might just be a genius.
> >
> >
> Im leaning towards genius
> http://intradev.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/detail.pl?type=intra&bib=45818
>
> Heres an example of links working now
>
> Where it says links to associated websites, that could link to a koha
> search on a different related subject

Is there a way to automate building these links (e.g., running search
terms through a thesaurus)?  If so, do we want to write a script to build
this on a periodic basis?

-pate

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> Chris
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