Biblio filter

Thanks damien, I really hadn't done anything along that line yet. I too was looking at the footnote module, but got distracted by other things. What I have done recently is externalize the "node_save" portion of the import chain and changed some of the function calls to use pass by reference in an effort to ease the memory use. Some people (I forget, was it you also?) are importing HUGE files (2500+ entiries), so memory management becomes an issue.

I also added an RSS feed last night which can be accessed at /biblio/rss.xml or via the icon on the new pubs block.

The next thing I would really like to do are create a contributors table to keep all the authors, editors, translators and such in. Although this is fairly straight forward for entries input from the form, it gets ugly quite fast for the "import from file" case. The problem is determining if the author being imported is the same as one that exists in the database. Simple compares don't always work since you might have different combinations of Firstname I. Lastname, or F.I. Lastname.

The duplicate entry checking would be most welcome, I've been meaning to do that for some time.

I was also going to add some auto-complete functions for many of the form fields, to help with consistency in the database.

Good luck with the move, and thanks for the help.

If I may give the point of view of a librarian concerning the validation of authors in the Biblio module, I think you could consider the example of a library catalogue. Librarian when they describe a document and input the description into the library système count on what the call a ''Authority list''. The Authority list contains all the authors present in the system. For each one of those authors, the proper form was entered once respecting the cataloging rules. Whenever a new book or document is entered, the cataloguer check in the authority list for the author and use the same form the new description. In the case of the biblio module, I guest a way to go would be to allowed the creator of a new biblio to browse the authors list already present into the database and then select the proper one. This would ensure that a author name is always entered in the same way...

Hoping this is useful...

Denis

Hi Denis,

Yes that was exactly my plan for the form based input, I am going to implement an auto complete feature using AJAX which will query the database as you are typing the authors last name and present you with a list of possibilities to choose from.

The problem lies on the bulk import (from file) side, when you have to rely on the machine to make the best guess.

Ron.

subscribing!

any idea when something working will be up and running? i am in desparate need for this feature!

I assume you are referring to the footnote type stuff?

Unfortunately, I can't really give you a date... I'm just doing this in my spare time (the amount of which varies from day to day :-)

Would you be using this on a single node or a "book" type node?

yes footnote stuff. i'm using single nodes only at the moment but possibly books later.

at the moment i'm sticking with the footnotes module but it would be great to combine the functionality of that with the biblio module to build up a library of references and sources - it would be an invaluable addition so let me know if there's anything we can do that would speed up your progress! :D

Ok, this feature is now in the 5.x-dev release.

Upgrading to Biblio 6.x gives you this feature as well.
Marking the issue closed.
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