From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Fri Jul 10 19:54:19 2009
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:54:19 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Adding Dewey Decimal #'s to Alexandria
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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:51:42 -0500
aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> To support a library cataloging project, I have added some Dewey
> Decimal Number support to Alexandria. 

Yep, this is a feature that keeps getting requested. And I keep
putting it off since I know so little about library call number
systems. I'd be interested in having a look at your implementation to
see what features you're including.

> For now it is pretty rudimentary:

> - I only added Dewey support only to Amazon. It seems to have most of
> what I need.
> - The relevant portions of the GUI ( main page columns, properties and
> preferences)  have been changed to support a Dewey field.
> - Exporting to CSV now has a Dewey column.
> 
> I have a couple of questions about exporting:
> - I don't know how to implement exporting to ONIX because I am not
> sure where the Dewey # goes in the XML structure.

I know very little about ONIX at all, I haven't really touched that
code since I came to this project. But I think it might look like this
anywhere inside a <Product> element:

  <MainSubject>
    <SubjectSchemeIdentifier>01</SubjectSchemeIdentifier>
    <SubjectSchemeName>Dewey</SubjectSchemeName>
    <SubjectHeadingText>some string</SubjectHeadingText>
    <SubjectCode>some code</SubjectCode>
  </MainSubject>
  <Subject>
    <SubjectSchemeIdentifier>01</SubjectSchemeIdentifier>
    <SubjectSchemeName>Dewey</SubjectSchemeName>
    <SubjectHeadingText>some string</SubjectHeadingText>
    <SubjectCode>some code</SubjectCode>
  </Subject>

Unfortunately I can't find any examples of nicely formatted, well
formed ONIX documents (another thing I need to research more!).

> - Does the Tellico XML format support Dewey?

I looked in the Tellico DTD
http://periapsis.org/tellico/dtd/v9/tellico.dtd
There doesn't seem to be any kind of <subject> element for "subject
classifications" like Dewey or Library of Congress, only a <genre>
element (presumably for things like.

However, if you want to add a <subject> element, or even a
<deweysubject> element, look in export_library.rb about 12 lines down
in the method to_tellico_document and read the Fields section of
"Hacking Tellico" http://periapsis.org/tellico/doc/hacking.html which
describes how you might add your own field definition.

> 
> thanks ...
> -deech

Hope this helps somewhat. Let me know if anything is unclear, or if I
can help with anything else.

   -   C.
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From stephen.taylor18 at ntlworld.com  Thu Jul 30 15:19:35 2009
From: stephen.taylor18 at ntlworld.com (Steve Taylor)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:19:35 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Feature request
Message-ID: <4A71F247.6010303@ntlworld.com>

Hi Alexandria developers!

Would it be possible to add the ability to sort libraries in the left 
hand pane to Alexandria?

I'm sure this would be easy to implement.

Perhaps alphabetically, or by drag and drop? The current system of 
sorting by creation date only means large collections begin to become 
cluttered over time.

What do you think?

Regards,

Steve.