Alexandria - Wiki

Wiki - HomeUserRequirements

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:55:12 GMT

Link to ebook files (if available)

A book may be opened via clicking if the electronic version such as .pdf, .chm, .html is available.

Data storage

Optionally store physical location

Ownership and Loaning

A book may be listed as wanted, which means the user does not have access to a copy but would like to.
If the user does have access to copies of a book, each …

Wiki - AGSP

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:30:58 GMT

Alexandria Generic Scanner Protocol

TCP-connection from Alexandria (A) to Scanner (S).

S: 220 AGSP (type) (version)
A: SCAN
S: 250 scanned (barcode)
A: ACCEPTED
or
A: REJECTED
or
A: REJECTED (reason)
answer:
S: 211 OK
and again:
A: SCAN
S: 250 scanned (barcode)
A: ACCEPTED
S: 211 OK
A: QUIT
S: 221 (message (e.g. bye))
other responses:
S: 502 (message (...

Wiki - BookshopRequirements

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:58:29 GMT

Extended Book Information added to core Requirements:

Distributor
Return type: Returnable, Non-returnable, or Strip (mass market paperbacks)
Quantity on Hand (In store) – Books may be in system with quantity of zero. (may be on oder or sold out)
Release Date (for books that have not been published yet and Strict on Sale books (S.O.S) i.e. Harry Potter)
Order Information – Qu…

Wiki - CoreRequirements

Sat, 10 May 2008 23:45:37 GMT

Data acquisition

Manual entry
Automated/bulk entry
- via textfile (list of ISBNs/ISSNs)
- via barcode-scanner
  - Keyboard wedge (generic)
  - CueCat (encrypted)
  - SE-955 (API)
  - Networked
- via RFID

Data storage

Keep details of a book collection, including title, authors, publisher, binding, format (could be e-book, or audio book – besides tradition…

Wiki - Alexandria

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:38:55 GMT

Alexandria Project Wiki

This wiki is intended to help with the design and evolution of Alexandria. It will be used to gather requirements (keeping the CoreRequirements separate from particular usage scenarios such as HomeUserRequirements and LibraryRequirements) and to host possible domain models as they are being formulated.

The wiki is also currently use…

Wiki - LibraryRequirements

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:14:15 GMT

Data Storage

Call number classification, for either Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress classification (see also: comparison of the two systems...

Wiki - BookProviders

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:20:44 GMT

Book Providers (or just ‘providers’) are the Ruby classes in Alexandria which access online web services to download book information. These include web-scrapers (e.g. Worldcat?), proper purpose-designed RESTful web services (e.g. Amazon ECS) and custom protocols (particularly Z39.50).

Current Providers

Web Services

[[ProviderAmazon…

Wiki - ProviderSuomalainen

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:48:50 GMT

Information from feature request #1906, might be out of date::

Example URL for ISBN search:

http://www.suomalainen.com/sk/servlets/ProductServlet?action=search&author=&authorRole=&name=&publisher= &series=&year1=&year2=&isbn=1556523513&language=*&profile=&issue=&category=

Example URL for title search:

http://www.suomalainen.com/sk/servlets/ProductServlet?action=search&author=&a…

Wiki - ProviderAmazonECS

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:14:49 GMT

Searching Multiple Locales

It is evidently not clear to the user that although you choose your ‘preferred’ locale (e.g. ‘de’), all other locales are searched if a book is not found at the preferred site. This will require an adjustment to the user-interface and the Manual.

Wiki - ProviderBritishLibrary

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:36:41 GMT

Notes in the code (lib/alexandria/book_providers/z3950.rb) suggest that this provider should eventually be replaced:

switch from BL to Copac, which incudes the BL itself and many more libraries: http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/
Details: http://copac.ac.uk/interfaces/z39.50/
The SUTRS…