 Catalogue BlogCatalogue Parties Are Back!We currently have over 4000 items catalogued! But there are still a lot of zines left and more cataloguing to undertake. Certain subjects have been somewhat neglected.
Vocabulary Index moduleWhen I went to the Drupal site to find and download the Directory module, I ended up looking through all of the different modules associated with Taxonomy and I fell in love with Drupal again. Maybe "love" is too strong of a word, but I remembered how amazing Drupal is and how it can do everything and how much fun it is to try to figure out how to do something in Drupal. Blog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: Directory module, Drupal, Taxonomy module, Vocabulary Index module
Perplexed by Drupal blogsLast week one of the Roberts Street residents (Macho!) came up with an awesome idea: start a blog on the website for residents to post info and updates about their projects. Of course!
New Zine Librarian ZineThe new issue of Zine Librarian Zine is out! In case you can’t tell from the title, it’s an awesome zine about zines and libraries. I wrote an article for the new issue about subject cataloguing and making a thesaurus for the Anchor Archive Zine Library. The PDF is available for viewing and printing. For a quick read, here is my article:
Cataloguing updateI apologize for my long absence from the Catalogue Blogue. A lot has happened since I last wrote.
Shortcomings in Drupal Taxonomy ModuleAs we’ve written about in detail elsewhere on this blog, we use the Taxonomy module in Drupal for the Subject field. It’s set up so that every time we enter a new subject term the term gets added to a controlled vocabulary that’s stored in Drupal. Blog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: Drupal, Taxonomy module, cataloguing, thesaurus, thesaurus software
In search of alternative subject headings and thesauriI’ve found a couple of resources for alternative subject headings since my last post:
Zine thesaurus-making fun
Cataloguing has begunNow that we have this awesome catalogue, our next task is to fill it with data, or catalogue the collection of the Anchor Archive Zine Library. There are about 2000 zines in the collection, plus books and other items, but we’re just focusing on the zine collection for now. We hope to have most of the cataloguing done by September or October of 2008.
Zine Library Catalogue Final ReportIn the spirit of zine-making, Amanda and I intend to reformat and publish our final report for this project as a zine. However, for those who might be following our progress online and also for review by our instructor before we can format, publish and distribute our paper-based report, we’re pre-publishing it electronically to this blog. Enjoy. There’s also a PDF version here. Blog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: Automatic Nodetitles module, Circulation module, Community Tags module, Computed Field module, Content Construction Kit (CCK) module, Drupal, Faceted Search module, Node Go To module, Node Profile module, Taxonomy module, Views module, cataloguing, open source software, system design, system requirements, zine libraries
Partial successCirculation functionality is now working in our system. I’m not completely sure of all of the workflows, but the functionality to check items in and out is working.
Circulation progressI’ve had a bit of a breakthrough today on the circulation issue. Our cirulation module needs to hook into the display of Item and Zine records. This was going to require some slightly tricky logic when it came to displaying the statuses of all Items when viewing a Zine record. We would have to build a table in the module’s hook_nodeapi() routines to output html. Ugly.
Bibliographic RecordsBibliographic records will be handled as custom content types in our system. In our current development system, this consists of a single content type called zine (display name ‘Zine Record’). Blog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: Automatic Nodetitle module, Drupal, Node Go To module, catalogue records, data model, system design
Searching, Browsing, and Viewing RecordsOne of the most important functions of the Anchor Archive’s system will be enabling users to find and view zine records. They will be able to do this by searching in different ways or browsing by topic. Blog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: Directory module, Drupal, Faceted Search module, Viewfields module, Views module, searching, system design
Controlled VocabulariesThere are some fields in the zine record table for which we want to use a controlled vocabulary. Blog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: CCK Taxonomy Fields module, Drupal, Taxonomy module, system design, thesaurus
CirculationThe ability to manage the loaning of materials is very important to this project. After considering different methods to accomplish such tasks as check-out, check-in, and review of item status, we have decided to proceed by writing a custom Drupal module. This module will be released to anyone with interest when it becomes at least partly functional.
System design
We have now conceived of a design for Blog type: Catalogue Blog
Tagging and User CommentsThe Anchor Archive will allow users to add their own tags and comments to zine records. Tags will provide complementary user-generated subject indexing to zine records. Comments will be primarily used to gather reviews of zines from members. Blog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: Community Tags module, Drupal, Tagadelic module, system design, user tags
User ManagementBlog type: Catalogue BlogCatalogue blog tags: Drupal, Profile module, Usernode Module, circulation, system design, user management
Data ModelLast week Amanda and I made some sketches of the relational data model for the anchor archive system. What follows is a slightly formalised version which I have created with a database modeler.
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