[Koha] opac seach add-on

[Bigwood, David]

Another idea, how about a search on Yahoo or Google of Open Worldcat? For examples of a few tools see http://faculty.washington.edu/murata/worldcat/ For more details on Open Worldcat see http://faculty.washington.edu/murata/worldcat/ This might be a good option to offer on 0 hit searches? 

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
Lunar & Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml


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[mailto:koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of mike re-v
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 8:30 AM
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Subject: [Koha] opac seach add-on


hi
would it be a stretch to include on the koha opac
search a link to amazon to get more info like see this
book. I've been looking at cpan net::amazon.  The
heavy example script from net::amazon looks good but
it returns info from amazon in xml
The idea would be the koha opac seach result returns a
link to amazon with the isbn from the koha database
[as an option]
You can not just add the isbn to the url. The amazon
url contains the isbn but also contains a pointer to
their database which changes depending on the isbn
entered.
I'm guessing a script could be written to open amazon
and tab down to their search box. Then apply the isbn
from koha and simulate a cr or enter.
Any thought on how to do this?

thanks
re-v


		
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