[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** A more "academic" item details page - for Evergreen 1.6

[Harbottle, Joel R]

Hi Dan,
This is great news. I was wondering with these changes to the OPAC if the
Author field will now display the entire contents of the '100' tag (eg. in
the MARC record you have "100 1_ $aAndrews, Mark, $d1946-"" will it now
shown in the OPAC as: "Andrews, Mark, 1946-" and not just "Andrews, Mark" as
it has always previously done?

I hope I haven't confused you with this question.

Cheers,
Joel


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> I sat down with my fellow Evergreen geeks from Project Conifer and
> bashed out a rough draft of an item details page that (I think) better
> suits academic institutions. We put the new BibTemplate support that
> Mike Rylander coded up to good use and added the display of a bunch of
> additional fields:
>
>  * Alternate title (246), ISSN (022), General notes (500), Content
> notes (505), Use restriction notes (506), Performer notes (511),
> Additional authors (700), Preceded by (780), Succeeded by (785)
>
> It also features a few niceties that any Evergreen site might want to
> adopt:
>  * We replaced the publication info with the full text of the 260
> field instead (so publishers will usually display a place and date,
> which makes academics happier when they're citing things). This also
> let us hide the separate publication date row entirely.
>  * To avoid a lengthy set of empty table rows, most fields will be
> hidden if they do not contain any content
>  * We extended the example hierarchical display of subjects to pull
> from all 65X fields, rather than just the 650 (using the fancy ^= CSS3
> selector operator - w00t)
>  * We made the display of URIs work more like the way online
> resources have traditionally been displayed (display subfield z as the
> link text if you have no subfield y to display)
>
> We liked the results of the rough draft so much that we immediately
> put it into production.
>
> Our current draft of the item details page is at
>
> http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/conifer/trunk/web/opac/skin/default/xml/rdetail/rdetail_summary.xml
>
> Some examples:
>  * A journal with a preceding title:
> http://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/lul/xml/rdetail.xml?r=589790
>  * A page with a whole lot of metadata to display:
> http://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/lul/xml/rdetail.xml?r=738895
>
> So, there are still some bits to refine - we don't really want to
> display numeric subfields in most cases, and we probably need to to a
> better job of handling really lengthy displays - and undoubtedly there
> are more fields to add, but I thought it would be worthwhile pointing
> out what is possible in Evergreen 1.6 and thank Mike for putting the
> piece in place that makes building highly customized item displays
> easy for mere mortals. (Thanks too to Bill Erickson for making
> BibTemplate work on Internet Explorer!)
>
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
>
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