[Koha-devel] RFC: Improved book covers

[Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn]

Finally managed to get access to the library system again. Please find
attached a version of the cover system rebased to Koha 3.4.2. There are
still a few places where things can be tidied up. Thinking about it, moving
the cover caching system from php to perl would give some really nice
benefits - such as pre-normalised ISBNs.. Still, my perl fu is not *that*
strong. <grin>

Any questions etc. please let me know.

Fared thee well,
Nick

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Ian Walls
<ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>wrote:

> Nick,
>
>
> That'd be great; save us from having to do some rebasing for Template
> Toolkit.
>
>
> -Ian
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <
> vanoudt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ian! If you like, I can provide an updated version (running on
>> 3.4.2 rather than 3.2) next week when I get back to the server...
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On 8/12/11, Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
>> > Nick,
>> >
>> >
>> > Very interesting!  I look forward to poking around in it, and seeing
>> what
>> > could be integrated into Koha.  Thanks for sharing!
>> >
>> >
>> > -Ian
>> >
>> > 2011/7/25 Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <vanoudt at gmail.com>
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> We've been avid users of Koha here at Perth Bible College for quite a
>> few
>> >> years now. Recently, I've done some work to improve the book cover
>> system
>> >> here at PBC. A lot of our records lack ISBN records (BAD library
>> practices
>> >> in the old library system!), and I really wanted something nicer than a
>> >> "cover not found" image. The result (attached) is an html/css book
>> cover
>> >> generating system - which also locally stores covers attained from
>> >> librarything and openlibrary, redirecting to an amazon image if no
>> cover
>> >> is
>> >> found. Unfortunately, it's in php - since I'm more familiar with that.
>> :(
>> >> The kernel for the system (though it's been *heavily* modified is
>> courtesy
>> >> a
>> >> script by Art Zemon from 2008.
>> >>
>> >> We also put together a newbooks display. The results can be seen on the
>> >> landing page: http://library.pbc.wa.edu.au/ - (and there you'll see
>> that
>> >> even some of our "new" books don't have ISBNs! <groan>)
>> >>
>> >> Hoping this might be of use to someone else. Something like the
>> html/css
>> >> book cover system could, in my opinion, be very useful...
>> >>
>> >> Nick van Oudtshoorn
>> >> Perth Bible College
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ian Walls
>> > Lead Development Specialist
>> > ByWater Solutions
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>> > ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
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>> >
>>
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>
>
> --
> Ian Walls
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> ByWater Solutions
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> ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
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