[Koha-devel] RFC : Local cover images

[Ian Bays]

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..
>
> Regards,
> Koustubha Kale
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