Adding your own book covers to koha
Hello all. I am setting up koha for a developmental organisation here in Sri Lanka (you may have heard of the country, its been in the news a few times lately). They have a rather large collection of technical books that they have published, and they want to put the covers on the koha DB so that people can know what the book SHOULD look like. They also want to put the back cover and contents page(s) up in the same way. I have looked high and low for an efficient way of doing this, and I am at wit's end. Most places recommend using Amazon covers, but there is no chance the books will be on AMZN (self-published and all that dontcherknow). So where do I go from here? Does anyone have any ideas? Or has anyone done this? Thanks Suchetha -- Check my photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/suchetha Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings: http://raramimu.blogspot.com Why do I smell brimstone? And what am I doing in this hand-basket?
Sounds like something others have asked for - but not something that is easily doable. I'd recommend a development project that allows people to upload their own book content after cataloging ... so that this kind of data can be stored in the database. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Suchetha Wijenayake <suchetha@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all.
I am setting up koha for a developmental organisation here in Sri Lanka (you may have heard of the country, its been in the news a few times lately).
They have a rather large collection of technical books that they have published, and they want to put the covers on the koha DB so that people can know what the book SHOULD look like.
They also want to put the back cover and contents page(s) up in the same way.
I have looked high and low for an efficient way of doing this, and I am at wit's end. Most places recommend using Amazon covers, but there is no chance the books will be on AMZN (self-published and all that dontcherknow).
So where do I go from here? Does anyone have any ideas? Or has anyone done this?
Thanks
Suchetha
-- Check my photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/suchetha
Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings: http://raramimu.blogspot.com
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Nicole Engard <nicole.engard@liblime.com> wrote:
Sounds like something others have asked for - but not something that is easily doable. I'd recommend a development project that allows people to upload their own book content after cataloging ... so that this kind of data can be stored in the database.
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Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Suchetha Wijenayake <suchetha@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all.
I am setting up koha for a developmental organisation here in Sri Lanka (you may have heard of the country, its been in the news a few times lately).
They have a rather large collection of technical books that they have published, and they want to put the covers on the koha DB so that people can know what the book SHOULD look like.
They also want to put the back cover and contents page(s) up in the same way.
I have looked high and low for an efficient way of doing this, and I am at wit's end. Most places recommend using Amazon covers, but there is no chance the books will be on AMZN (self-published and all that dontcherknow).
So where do I go from here? Does anyone have any ideas? Or has anyone done this?
Thanks
Suchetha
-- Check my photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/suchetha
Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings: http://raramimu.blogspot.com
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I was afraid of that. since my perl-fu is nonexistent, does anyone have a recommended workaround? I can handle PHP (though i haven't hacked PHP code in years) Suchetha -- Check my photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/suchetha Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings: http://raramimu.blogspot.com Why do I smell brimstone? And what am I doing in this hand-basket?
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Eric Bégin <Eric.Begin@inlibro.com> wrote:
Hi,
We are currently developping something similar.
Basically, you have a directory containing a thumbnail of the covers. The current implementation is using <biblionumber>.jpg for a cover thumbnails. In the detail page, the thumbnail is also an url link to the original cover, also named <biblionumber>.jpg, but in a different directory.
Right now, the link to the .jpg is hardcoded, however, our plan is to extend this feature in order to link to a file which the extension will be specified in a system preference. In your case, that system preference could refer to a .html file containing the cover, content page and backcover. This html file could even be a templated file using some specific directory (/cover, /content, /backcover) for its content.
Could this feature set be usefull in your case?
Hopefully, I should be able to check that in in the next few days.
Eric
Suchetha Wijenayake wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Nicole Engard <nicole.engard@liblime.com> wrote:
Sounds like something others have asked for - but not something that is easily doable. I'd recommend a development project that allows people to upload their own book content after cataloging ... so that this kind of data can be stored in the database.
---
Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Suchetha Wijenayake <suchetha@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all.
I am setting up koha for a developmental organisation here in Sri Lanka (you may have heard of the country, its been in the news a few times lately).
They have a rather large collection of technical books that they have published, and they want to put the covers on the koha DB so that people can know what the book SHOULD look like.
They also want to put the back cover and contents page(s) up in the same way.
I have looked high and low for an efficient way of doing this, and I am at wit's end. Most places recommend using Amazon covers, but there is no chance the books will be on AMZN (self-published and all that dontcherknow).
So where do I go from here? Does anyone have any ideas? Or has anyone done this?
Thanks
Suchetha
-- Check my photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/suchetha
Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings: http://raramimu.blogspot.com
Why do I smell brimstone? And what am I doing in this hand-basket? _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
I was afraid of that. since my perl-fu is nonexistent, does anyone have a recommended workaround? I can handle PHP (though i haven't hacked PHP code in years)
Suchetha
that sounds very much like we're trying to do indeed. what I was looking at was modifying the MARC record (something in the 900 set would work i think). And I think the biblio number would be best, since there are multiple sub-libraries who are using different call numbers (the number i originally used to identify the cover.) so i guess the next step is i have to figure out a way to get a record and put as part of the output. I am still learning here, so if anyone would care to point me in the right direction it would make life many levels easier atb Suchetha -- Check my photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/suchetha Rants Raves and Miscellaneous Musings: http://raramimu.blogspot.com Why do I smell brimstone? And what am I doing in this hand-basket?
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