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The New Books List Version 7.0 for Tomcat WebVoyáge

The New Books List Version 7.0 for Tomcat WebVoyáge. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian. Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) Conference, Richmond, Virginia May 2009. The “duck test”. One of these tabs is not like the others…. WebVoyáge. One of these tabs is not like the others….

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The New Books List Version 7.0 for Tomcat WebVoyáge

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  1. The New Books ListVersion 7.0 for Tomcat WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) Conference, Richmond, Virginia May 2009

  2. The “duck test” Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  3. One of these tabs is not like the others… WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  4. One of these tabs is not like the others… WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  5. One of these tabs is not like the others… WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  6. One of these tabs is not like the others… WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  7. One of these tabs is not like the others… WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  8. One of these tabs is not like the others… New Books List Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  9. WebVoyáge basic search results Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  10. New Books search results Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  11. WebVoyáge basic search results Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  12. New Books search results Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  13. Good new things • Integrates with Tomcat WebVoyáge • Book covers (and links) • Better keyword searching • Less “look and feel” configuration • Maintains session state Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  14. Book covers (thumbnails) – still beta • Two provider options • Google Books (default) • Syndetic Solutions For Google, images are also links Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  15. Google thumbnail click through Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  16. I need some (contextual) help WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  17. I need some (contextual) help WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  18. I need some (contextual) help New Books List Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  19. I need some (contextual) help New Books List Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  20. New! Keyword searching Improved texas history automatic boolean ANDing Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  21. Voilà search term highlighting Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  22. New! Keyword searching Improved “lone star” phrase searching with quotes Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  23. Voilà format icons Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  24. New! Keyword searching Improved map? truncation with “?” or “*” Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  25. Voilà format icons Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  26. New! Keyword searching Improved “geological survey” map? it all works in combination Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  27. Voilà Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  28. Leveraging search conventions GKEY^* Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  29. Diacritical searching Diabolical searching Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  30. Keyword searching Searching for “Cézanne” with the diacritic. Cézanne Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  31. Voilà Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  32. Keyword searching Searching for “Cézanne” without the diacritic. Cezanne Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  33. Voilà no search term highlighting… … just like in WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  34. Yes, diacritics are diabolic A trick question… are these two Unicode characters identical? é = é decomposed character “e” + ́ precomposed character “é” Although the glyphs are identical… the underlying encodings are not. Either encoding works with New Books List keyword searching. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  35. Works for non-Latin scripts, too الإسلام Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  36. Unlimited WebVoyáge skins WebVoyáge Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  37. Unlimited New Books List skins The New Books List is skin savvy New Books List Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  38. Language modules English Finnish Swedish Welsh Chinese template Parlez-vous New Books List? The New Books List comes “out-of-the-box” multilingual user interface ready. • New Books • Uutuusluettelo • Nyförvärv • Llyfrau Newydd • 新图书 New! Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  39. Session state As far as I can determine, version 7 of the New Books List maintains WebVoyáge session state. • Important in regards to: • Time-out utility • Navigating between skins • Results page canned links Accomplished via a bit of AJAX code that calls back to WebVoyáge with every New Books List page load. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  40. Five duck rating http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  41. […yada, yada] Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  42. Installation …it’s different this time. WebVoyáge New Books List • No interchangeable files between the Tomcat and Classic versions • Tried to drive home that point by styling the New Books List file names differently: newBooks.cgi newBooks.ini newBooks.pl newBooks.txt newBooks.English newBooks.Finnish etc. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  43. Installation …it’s different this time. • Tomcat WebVoyáge • not configured for CGI • New Books List • ShelfLister • external patron authentication • no opac.ini Customer gets to do this. It’s fairly easy, you just need root access. See the New Books List installation instructions. Adding a new search tab now involves editing three files. Also in the New Books List installation instructions (and in the WebVoyáge documentation). V7 required Perl modules provided courtesy of Ex Libris. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  44. Also see the Tomcat tips and tricks http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/vwebv/ Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  45. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  46. Also see the Tomcat tips and tricks http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/vwebv/ Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  47. Note: A "ScriptAlias" directive is not a viable alternative for the "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" directive; the newBooks.cgi script needs to run in the same 'virtual' URL path as the other vwebv WebVoyáge executables. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  48. For each skin add a new tab newBooks.css searchNewBooks.html Independent of skin Many WebVoyáge skins… …but only one New Books List Small CSS file, no need to edit. All the WebVoyáge help files are static HTML. The New Books List help file comes with “en_US” skin look and feel. Must be edited for different skins. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  49. For each skin search tab config newBooks.css searchNewBooks.html Independent of skin newBooks.cgi newBooks.txt newBooks.ini newBooks.English newBooks.Finnish newBooks.{language} Google cover javascript etc. Many WebVoyáge skins… …but only one New Books List One copy. Configuration files only have to be edited once. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

  50. Good news, bad news • New Books List v7 uses screen-scraping to get skin “look and feel” • header • CSS • JavaScript • navigation tabs/buttons • footer The good news is… …it greatly simplifies integration and configuration of the New Books List. The bad news is… …it degrades response time. Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

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