[Koha] Embedding Google book previews

[Stacy Pober]

I just went to bugzilla and it looks like someone has already filed this as
an enhancement request and that someone else has done a patch that is not
yet available (assuming I understand the comments for this one correctly):

<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5292>

Of course, since we're on LEK, I don't know whether this will be
incorporated into a future release of that or not.  I hope that if an
enhancement is in the official version, that our group would not have to
fund its incorporation into our offshoot of Koha.  I don't really know the
answer to that, though.

If anyone from PTFS is reading this and would like to enlighten me on this,
I'd be very glad to learn what the process is for choosing which new open
source Koha features get incorporated into our version by PTFS without
having to go through the funded enhancement development process.

Thanks.

-- 
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
stacy.pober at manhattan.edu

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>wrote:

> Absolutely no reason why not. In fact one of the talks at kohacon10 is from
> George Oates from the open library project about how Koha and it can work
> together for enhanced content.
>
> One of my aims for 3.4 is to make use of all the wonderful API that exist
> out there to enhance the opac. Openlibrary and Google are but 2 of them. Id
> love to whip up a proof of concept of google previews this weekend, but with
> my family only just having arrived home from 6 weeks away, truthfully it
> won't happen.
>
> One of the other multitude of smart people who work on Koha might do it,
> definitely jump into bugs.koha-community.org and file an enhancement
> request :)
>
> Chris
>
> On 16 Oct 2010 14:45, "Stacy Pober" <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu> wrote:
>
> Is there a way for Koha libries to embed Google book previews into their
> opac?   Here's a link to this being done in another system:
>
> <http://catalog.case.edu/record=b3317134~S0<http://catalog.case.edu/record=b3317134%7ES0>
> >
>
> We have book covers turned on and we're using the Google's cover images for
> that.  Having the book previews in our catalog would be way cool, too, so I
> figured that you folks would know if it was possible.
>
> --
> Stacy Pober
> Information Alchemist
> stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
>
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