[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Covers and ISBNs

[Gordana Vitez]

Hi Ian,
 
I would be interested to know how you got this to work.
 
Thanks!
Gordana
 
Gordana Vitez
Library Services & Systems Coordinator
NC Libraries and Learning Commons
Niagara College
300 Woodlawn Rd
Welland Ontario
L3C 7L3
Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
Fax: (905) 736 6021
gvitez at niagaracollege.ca


>>> Ian Bays <ian.bays at ptfs-europe.com> 10/7/2011 5:52 AM >>>
Hi Ben, Brian et al,

We came across this when trying to show images from Amazon.  We know from experience that Amazon mostly only responds to 10-digit ISBNs as the Amazon ID matched the 10-digit ISBN.  Amazon's line has always been that they provide images keyed on their Amazon ID.

When loading data there are 10-digit and 13-digit ISBNs often in no particular order.  So we found the script in Evergreen that forms the URL for the image from Amazon and test if the ISBN is 13-digits, and if so convert it using Business::ISBN perl module to be a 10-digit ISBN.  So no messing with the data in bib at all.  Seems to work well.

On our system the script to change is:
/openils/lib/perl5/OpenILS/WWW/AddedContent/Amazon.pm

We're happy to share - it's just a few lines.  Maybe this should be on the DEV list?

Also we noticed that if your ISBNs have hyphens in them then the ISBN only comes through as the digits up to the first hyphen (in our case usually "0").  We do get lots of cataloguers who believe ISBNs should have hyphens.  So we are weighing up removing hyphens in data conversion versus finding the code that writes the ISBN field and getting it to skip/ignore hyphens.  Should make it look real pretty!

All the best.

Ian

On 06/10/2011 18:56, Ben Shum wrote: 


Hi Brian,

As far as I know, the first ISBN entry of a record will always be used to retrieve added content images.  I'm not familiar with any workarounds other than editing the records to order the information in them accordingly, but maybe someone is working on this?  Otherwise, I think that'd be a useful feature to have in the future.

-- Ben

On 10/6/2011 1:17 PM, Brian Greene wrote: 

In many cases covers won't display in our OPAC if the 13-digit ISBN is above the 10-digit ISBN in the bib record. If I switch the order of the ISBNs so that the 10-digit one is first then the cover displays. This is the case most of the time, although I have come across instances where the 13-digit ISBN displays the cover properly. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Is there a setting we can change to use a second ISBN if the first one doesn't retrieve a cover? We're running 2.1.
 
Thanks,
 
 
Brian Greene, Library Director
Columbia Gorge Community College 
The Dalles, Oregon 97058
(541) 506-6080 | www.cgcc.cc.or.us ( http://www.cgcc.cc.or.us/ ) 

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Benjamin Shum
Open Source Software Coordinator
Bibliomation, Inc.
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