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Shelf Map RFC
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Sponsored by: | no-one | |
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Bug number: | Bug 737 | |
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Description: | Add maps that show the location of an item in Koha. The OPAC would be the main target, but they should of course be available in the intranet too. |
This is not a concrete project yet, more an attempt to gather some ideas.
OPAC
opac-detail.pl
- Show a link to the shelf map for each item, in the form of a link/button/icon next to the call number
opac-shelfmap.pl - new script
- Textual description of where the item is located
- img-tag to show the actual map
opac-image.pl
- Extend this script to take a new parameter shelfmap, with the ID of a shelf map as its value
- This will fetch the image from where it is cached and return it as an image to the browser
Intranet
Don't use the shelf maps in the staff interface for the first iteration.
Sysprefs
- New syspref for activating shelfmaps
Permissions
- New permission for editing shelfmaps
- Users with the permissions should only see and edit shelfmaps for their own library
- Superlibrarian should be able to see and edit all shelfmaps
Tools > Shelfmaps
- Maps
- Add
- Edit
- Delete
- Markers
- Add
- Edit
- Delete
Call number schemes
Anyone who hangs out in the IRC channel will be familiar with "@quote 123"...
- Start simple, add more schemes over time.
- Dewey-number + letters seems like a good place to start?
- E.g.: 575.01 Dar
How should the maps be generated?
Choose one to begin with, maybe add more later if needed.
Compound image on the fly
- Take the map of the library and add the marker to it, to generate a new image.
- Caching
JavaScript for placing markers, a la Google Maps
- Are there Free software packages that can do this?
HTML5 Canvas
- A bit too early, perhaps?
Flash
- Don't think so.
API
What information can we use to determine the location on a map?
See Holdings data fields (9xx) for available item fields.
MARC21 and NORMARC
- 952$b - branchcode (holdingbranch)
- 952$j - Shelving control number
- 952$o - Koha full call number
- 952$y - Koha item type?
- 952$8 - Collection code
UNIMARC
- ?
Examples in the wild
- From the Catalog to the Book on the Shelf: Building a Mapping Application for Vufind journal.code4lib.org/articles/6924
- BIBMAP (Germany)
- BIBSYS (Norway): Record - Map (Implemented in PHP by User:Magnus some years ago - source code available here. The BIBSYS shelfmap "protocol" is described in Norwegian here.)
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