[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Uploading Cover Images?

Thu Dec 10 15:38:21 EST 2009

I was thinking OpenLibrary is nice to use but what if the book does not have
an ISBN?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Duimovich, George <
George.Duimovich at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:

>
> Ha, ha!
>
> Sweet - we'll check it out.
>
> Thanks Mike!
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:
> open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander
> Sent: December 8, 2009 15:40
> To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Uploading Cover Images?
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Duimovich, George <
> George.Duimovich at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:
> >
> > I'd very much like to see support for multi-providers too.
> >
> > But I still like the ability to point to local repository of cover
> images, since we likely wouldn't have interest in having our staff catalogue
> directly in OpenLibrary first. It would be easier to support local images,
> and then post to public site (LT or OL, etc.) eventually.  We have a tonne
> of government documents that nobody else has..
> >
> > Just today I was asked about another use scenario: we will be managing
> some equipment in Evergreen (audio-visual stuff, etc.) and my colleague
> wants to see the "cover image" of the A/V equipment in the bib record
> details (picture of device). Since our "Panasonic P2 170 HPX camera" etc
> won't be in OpenLibrary, it would be nice to have the pic show up in the
> cover image content area. For this particular case, we'll just link to an
> image via 856 field for now.
> >
>
> The changeset at http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/15105
> attempts to allow local content to be served in preference to any remote
> added content.  If, for example, you have a single apache server (no
> separate added-content server) and you place an image at:
>
> /openils/var/web/opac/extras/ac/jacket/small/0123456789
>
> (note the lack of a filename extension!) and gave your "Panasonic P2 170
> HPX camera" record that ISBN (0123456789), then you should see the image you
> put there as the "cover image" for the record.  After applying that
> changeset, and restarting apache, of course.  If anyone tests this, please
> let us know how it works for you!
>
> --miker
>
> > George Duimovich
> > NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> > [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
> > Dan Scott
> > Sent: December 7, 2009 12:31
> > To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Uploading Cover Images?
> >
> > Sure... but the advantage of the OpenLibrary route is that a) the plugin
> already exists and b) you can get more from OpenLibrary than just covers,
> for free - just tables of content today, mind you, but the same principle
> could be used to pull the description, first sentence, etc from the
> OpenLibrary metadata that's returned by the call.
> >
> > LibraryThing offers more than just covers to Evergreen systems via
> > LibraryThing for Libraries
> > (http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/),
> > but that's a paid service.
> >
> > Getting back to added content, it's a bit of a painful limitation to be
> limited to selecting only a single service provider. I dream of the ability
> to stack added content services so that a library could tell their Evergreen
> system to check OpenLibrary, LibraryThing, Google Books, Amazon, Syndetic,
> SOPAC Insurge, publisher services, etc for cover images, reviews, etc, so
> that sites could provide the best coverage, or pick and choose services.
> >
> > For example: we might be happy with the covers provided by OpenLibrary,
> but be willing to pay Syndetic for their reviews. In the existing
> architecture we would have to create a custom added content Perl module to
> achieve that goal.
> >
> > There are other pieces of open source software that have already covered
> some of this ground - Umlaut, for example - and it might be a good thing to
> borrow or integrate that work, rather than continuing to roll our own. But
> that level of refactoring would require significant work, too, so until
> somebody has the time to invest, we can keep rolling with what we've got.
> OpenLibrary is the only service provider that I'm aware of to which
> libraries can contribute cover images and their own added content and that
> content is then freely and immediately available to others to use, which is
> why I lean in its direction.
> >
> > While I'm day-dreaming and totally on a tangent, I'd love to see somebody
> take advantage of the very low-hanging fruit of augmenting their catalogue
> records by turning the tables of contents / author notes / etc available
> from OpenLibrary and often from loc.gov itself into proper MARC fields to
> enhance keyword searching. Should be easy to do... maybe as a hackfest
> project, if nobody gets around to it before then.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:48 -0600, Josh Stompro wrote:
> >> Another similar option would be to create or update entries in
> >> librarything, (http://www.librarything.com).  You could add the cover
> >> art and then use the librarything cover art service.
> >> http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/08/million-free-covers-from-lib
> >> r
> >> arything.php
> >>
> >>
> >> It could be that there is some crossover between librarything and
> >> openlibrary, so by adding cover art to one it shows up in the other,
> >> but I'm just speculating... looks like maybe not.
> >> "*In the past, we had been talking to the Open Libary
> >> <http://openlibrary.org/> project about a joint effort. We even sent
> >> them all our covers and a key to the identifiers that linked them.
> >> But nothing came of it. To some extent that was our fault, and to
> >> some extent not. (I think them and us would differ on the blame
> >> here.) In any case, I was tired of the time and transactional
> >> friction, and wanted to try a different approach." (from page above)
> >>
> >> Josh
> >>
> >> Dan Scott wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 08:44 -0500, Ryan wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >> It seems we have hit a bump in using Evergreen, we have a
> >> >> collection of cook books that need to be cataloged. These cook
> >> >> books are fundraiser cook books so they are not sold by Amazon or
> >> >> cataloged by the Library of Congress. We can catalog the books
> >> >> with out a problem but can we scan the cover images and upload
> >> >> them to our Evergreen server? Where would these files have to be
> placed if so?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > You could catalog them in OpenLibrary (http://openlibrary.org/),
> >> > upload the cover images there, and use the OpenLibrary added
> >> > content plugin instead of Amazon
> >> > (
> http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/OpenILS/WWW/AddedContent/OpenLibrary.pm)
> - which didn't make it into 1.6.0.0, unfortunately, but should work as-is if
> you pull it directly from trunk.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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