[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding BookCovers to Evergreen ILS

[Geoff Sams]

We have only really just started the process, but that was more or less the plan to help identify the top priorities.

Eventually I was hoping to have catalogers upload book jackets and have the server automatically handle them into the right sizes and places so as to clear the work load.  I know I saw something recently about how it has been done elsewhere.  It was probably in IRC.

After a hardware upgrade I will probably explore this further.  Right now, it’s all in its infancy.  We have several catalogers that have OpenLibrary accounts helping with that, but only a few capable of handling local hosted jackets at the moment.

Definitely going to utilize that command though.

Thanks,
Geoff Sams
Library Manager
Roanoke Public Library

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Josh Stompro
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 2:16 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding BookCovers to Evergreen ILS

Geoff, how do you identify which titles without jacket art to focus on?  Do you parse the apache logs?  Or is it up to the staff that is adding the covers to find them?

We are not live yet, so I don’t have real logs to look at, but doing the following on our system gives me an indication of which cover art that is missing is accessed the most by record ID.  This will probably not perform very well with live data, I’ll find out in a couple months.  Does anyone else do anything like this?

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root at virt-egutil1:/var/log/evergreen/2015/08/18# egrep -o "/opac/extras/ac/jacket/\w+/r/[0-9]+ HTTP/1.1\" 404" ap_access.* ../../*/*/ap_access.* | egrep -o "r/[0-9]+" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
     11 r/183379
      9 r/169192
      8 r/1001
      7 r/1002
      6 r/158308
      5 r/1004
      5 r/1000
      4 r/1005
     3 r/1008
      3 r/1007
      3 r/1006
      1 r/8821
      1 r/20000
      1 r/1966
      1 r/189367
      1 r/186712
      1 r/1834
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Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Sams
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:49 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding BookCovers to Evergreen ILS

We have some folks who I’ve encouraged to start doing this within our consortium, to great effect.  It’s also been helpful with that handful of incorrect images here and there.

I’m also toying with the manually hosted option as well.

Thanks,
Geoff Sams
Library Manager
Roanoke Public Library

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 3:58 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org<mailto:open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Adding BookCovers to Evergreen ILS

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Jayaraj JR <jayaraj at iisertvm.ac.in<mailto:jayaraj at iisertvm.ac.in>> wrote:
We are currently on 2.8.1. We have observed that a lot of titles appear in the catalog without book jacket images. It is configured to use from OpenLibrary book covers. How can we add multiple service providers like Librarything for images in Evergreen ILS. Is there any way to add the book image manually if the service providers do not the item in their database

You can add the book image (and book entry, if necessary) to OpenLibrary and make the database better for everyone! You can create a free account, log in, and click "Add a cover image" on entries like https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16042192W/Collaborative_communities to then upload a cover image.
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