[Koha-devel] RFC : Local cover images

[Frédéric Demians]

Le 11/12/2010 11:55, Koustubha Kale a écrit :

 > 1. Provide facility to upload scanned cover images linked to
 > biblionumber.

Where will you store them? On Koha server? on another server? on flickr?
somewhere else? Will you upload image file one by one during cataloging?
or will you load them in batch? Is there any chance to share them with
other libraries?

 > 2. Create required mysql tables to hold cover images.

Isn't it a disputable point? If image files are stored on file system,
the Web server (Apache or other) can optimize file delivering, the web
browser also. Will it be possible with DB stored files?

 > 4. Create system preference to decide priority of cover images from
 > multiple providers such as Amazon, Google, Local.

+1 It's a very necessary feature. It could be tricky to do since the way
to retrieve cover images are so different depending of sources. From my
perspective, you will need to redesign Amazon cover image fetching. Now
Amazon images are directly linked from an <img> tag target on URL based
on biblio record normalized ISBN (ISBN-10)--but which one? You should
use Amazon API in javascript to ask for images. This way some current
shortcomings could be overcome. For example it would be possible to get
images for resources other that books: CD, DVD...


Thanks.