[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] State of the map of Evergreen libraries?

[Duimovich, George]

>> but would folks be amenable to there being some kind of "submit your OU hierarchy to the Evergreen Project" function

Definitely amenable and great idea Galen!

George

George Duimovich
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan



-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton
Sent: May 9, 2012 15:44
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] State of the map of Evergreen libraries?

Hi,

On May 9, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
> 1) Process for adding Evergreen libraries to the map. Maybe updating 
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries 
> could / should be step one (only a wiki account is required!), but we 
> don't have coordinates there currently, just a rough location field. 
> Then perhaps map updaters could follow the revisions to that page and 
> update a centralized KML file accordingly.

One thing that occurs to me is that some of this could in principle be automated, since any given organization unit hierarchy will almost always include mailing addresses.

It wouldn't be perfect -- for example, I know of at least one Evergreen consortium that has OUs that it does not care to (or cannot) publicly identify --  but would folks be amenable to there being some kind of "submit your OU hierarchy to the Evergreen Project" function, akin to Debian's voluntary package "popularity contest"?

Regards,

Galen
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