Re: [VuFind-Tech] LCC vs Dewey vs ... other classification schema?

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

Which browse feature are you referring to?

The standard browse, i.e.:

http://vufind.org/demo/Browse/LCC

...or the alphabetical browse, i.e.:

http://vufind.org/demo/AlphaBrowse/Results?source=lcc&from=a

In either case, you should be able to make some customizations.

Standard browse is driven entirely by the Solr index.  It works by displaying facets and applying a series of filters.  If you are able to index your call numbers at multiple levels of detail into the Solr index, you can customize the browse module to display them.  Just a matter of copying some of the existing code and changing the field names that are used.  (The browse code is a bit intimidating in 1.x, featuring some hard-to-follow Javascript; VuFind 2 switches to more server-side PHP logic, so it might be a little easier to work with...  either way, though, if you copy-and-paste the right things, you should be able to make it work).

Alphabetical browse is driven by a SQLite database which is generated using values from the Solr index.  To use this, you just need to index your call numbers and a sort value that will allow them to be displayed in an appropriate order, then adjust the alphabrowse index generation scripts and related configurations to build and read from a new SQLite database.

Regarding your question about MARC record vs. LMS item data, since all of this is driven by Solr, it is easiest to operate using MARC fields.  However, perhaps you can export item information from your ILS along with bibliographic information in order to have access to more data, or else you might be able to write a custom indexing routine for SolrMarc that pulls data from your LMS as part of the indexing process (complicated and possibly slow, but theoretically possible if you're willing to do the work).

I hope this is helpful -- let me know if you need more details on any aspect of the problem-solving.

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Lopez [mailto:cl...@dm...]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:57 PM
> To: vufind-tech (vuf...@li...)
> Subject: [VuFind-Tech] LCC vs Dewey vs ... other classification schema?
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> We use the Classification System of the Union Theological Seminary, New
> York (MARC code clutscny, also known as Pettee Classification) rather
> than LCC or Dewey (Pettee works very well for theological collections).
> 
> Is there any way that we can taylor the (very impressive) "Browse by
> Call Number" feature to use Pettee instead? (or, for other libraries,
> UDC, or Colon Classification, or NML, or any system that isn't LCC or
> Dewey?)
> 
> Also, is it necessary that "Browse by Call Number" get its information
> from MARC data, or can it (instead) query the LMS for item-level call
> number information?
> 
> Regards,
> c.
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