Katherine, This email got munged. Can you please resend? Thanks, Todd On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Katherine Kott wrote: > Well, the SFX architecture has a feature called "display logic" that > let's you on the server side determine how the menu will display based > on what services are available. This is more obviously relevant to > "digitized text availability" from Google Books than just cover > images. > You might want to suppress ILL links if there is digitized text (in > fact, you probably wouldn't in that particular case, but that gives > you > the idea of what things you might want to do. At least my library > wouldn't, maybe others with especially small ILL budgets might). Or > just give a pre-ILL warning message ("are you sure the Google text > isn't > sufficient?), that might be more realistic. > > Anyway, you obviously couldn't do this using the existing SFX display > logic feature if the Google Books info is only client side. > Now, "impossible?" In the world of software development, few > things are > actually impossible. You could try to duplicate that feature using > only > client-side Javascript hiding and showing various DIVs. The SFX HTML > currently isn't that clean, it woudl be hard. But you have the > capability to customize the SFX HTML however you want to. (And your > customizations will likely break with a future SFX release). So > nothings impossible, but I wouldn't want to go down that road. > > Jonathan > > Godmar Back wrote: >> Although I completely agree that server-side queryability is >> something >> we should ask from Google, I'd like to follow up on: >> >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Rochkind >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> The >>> architecture of SFX would make it hard to implement Google Books >>> API >>> access as purely client javascript, without losing full >>> integration with >>> SFX on par with other 'services' used by SFX. We will see what >>> happens. >>> >>> >> >> Could you elaborate? Do you mean 'hard' or 'impossible'? >> >> Meanwhile, I've extended the google book classes (libx.org/gbs ) to >> provide more flexibility; it now supports these classes: >> >> gbs-thumbnail Include an <img...> embedding the thumbnail image >> gbs-link-to-preview Wrap span in link to preview at GBS >> gbs-link-to-info Wrap span in link to info page at GBS >> gbs-link-to-thumbnail Wrap span in link to thumbnail at GBS >> gbs-if-noview Keep this span only if GBS reports that book's >> viewability is 'noview' >> gbs-if-partial-or-full Keep this span only if GBS reports that book's >> viewability is at least 'partial' >> gbs-if-partial Keep this span only if GBS reports that book's >> viewability is 'partial' >> gbs-if-full Keep this span only if GBS reports that book's >> viewability is 'full' >> gbs-remove-on-failure Remove this span if GBS doesn't return bookInfo >> for this item >> >> - Godmar >> >> > > -- > Jonathan Rochkind > Digital Services Software Engineer > The Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > 410.516.8886 > rochkind (at) jhu.edu --- Todd Grappone Associate Executive Director Information Development and Management CIO University Libraries The University of Southern California p: (213) 740-1617 e: [log in to unmask]