[Eg-newdevs] Eg-newdevs Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1

Thu Jan 11 14:10:55 EST 2024

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On Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 8:52 AM Thomsen, Elizabeth <et at noblenet.org> wrote:

> I"m really glad you're working on this golden oldie, and I agree, Terran's
> points are (as always) good ones!  And while it's good to be thinking about
> all the extra things that you could add, it would be great to get the basic
> functionality suggested in 2010(!) done and then look at enhancements
> people want when they start using it, which will have to include ways to
> make these optional.
>
> I'd encourage you to add a comment about what you're doing to the
> Launchpad bug to revive it and see what discussion, examples, etc., that
> generates!
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM Tim Means via Eg-newdevs <
> eg-newdevs at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>
>> Those are all good points!
>>
>> Speaking of metarecords, I found out about SuperCat where you can query
>> Evergreen by ISBN and get a list of related records in XML format. I kinda
>> like it
>>
>> --Tim
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 3:01 PM Terran McCanna <
>> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I would hesitate to attempt to build in an external search to retrieve
>>> matching titles based on ISBN (at least in the initial project) for several
>>> reasons - 1) anything involving 3rd party resources that may or not be
>>> available in all countries needs to be optional and configurable 2) the
>>> user may not actually want records with non-matching ISBNs, and 3)
>>> publishers have been known to re-use the same ISBNs for unrelated titles.
>>>
>>> I do think that it could be useful if the search had a metarecord search
>>> option so that the user could choose to retrieve the grouped
>>> formats/edition records if they wanted to.
>>>
>>> Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM Tim Means via Eg-newdevs <
>>> eg-newdevs at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For an ongoing personal project, I want to try to start working on
>>>> Evergreen bugs from oldest to newest.
>>>> So I went looking for the oldest bug on launchpad and found "batch
>>>> searching <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/520839>."
>>>>
>>>> Once I get my test server running on a spare laptop, I want to try to
>>>> write that batch search feature and test it.
>>>>
>>>> My questions about what we want in the feature, that I didn't see
>>>> discussed in the bug comments thread.
>>>> 1) If the specific ISBN is not found in the catalog, but a book of the
>>>> same title is in the catalog, do we want to present that title as a
>>>> positive search result?
>>>> 2) If the answer to #1 is yes, would we have to access a resource
>>>> outside of Evergreen like OCLC or even Google Books to get a title given
>>>> ISBN?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --Tim Means
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 12:00 PM <
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>>>>> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 12:56:18 -0500
>>>>> From: Terran McCanna <tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>
>>>>> To: Evergreen NewDevs <eg-newdevs at list.evergreen-ils.org>
>>>>> Subject: [Eg-newdevs] Bug for next week?
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>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a bug that one of you is working on that you'd like to have
>>>>> the
>>>>> group look at next week?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Terran
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Georgia Public Library Service | University System of Georgia
>>>>>
>>>>> 2872 Woodcock Blvd, Suite 250 l Atlanta, GA 30341
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