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Hi Elliot congrats, you did it! Wish you all the best for the further development! Markus Am 23.04.2011 23:27, schrieb Elliot Hallmark: > All, > > It was at the end of last year that I came here saying I was writing an open > source ILS for a distributed (book sharing) library. While I had lots of > enthusiasm and time for it at the time, our development computer didn't have > the capacity to run a solr based discovery front end. Even though the back > end was ready for feedback (though still very alpha), I dallied in posting > the IP because there was no discovery layer. > > In the interest of moving forward, and since a complex discovery layer may > not be necessary for a while (not for< 100 books), here is the IP. Please > check it out and give feed back. Play around with whatever, this data isn't > real. > > http://72.48.75.76 > > If this IP changes, I'll let y'all know on this thread. > > Soon I would like to use this system at our private alternative > school<http://www.clearviewsudburyschool.org>in hopes that it would > facilitate folks letting us use their excellent > books, since they would be lending them, not donating them. Having a > database keeping track of who owns the books would give a little peace of > mind. in the future, setting up a network of libraries would be easy. > > notes: > > 1. This is a distributed library, where a book enters the system through a > primal loan (from owner to library), and is due back at some point. The > book or item can be further lent to a regular borrower, or to another > library (which inherits lending privilages). extending lending privilages > must be done through the administrative back end, so it wouldn't happen > accidentally. > > 2. The "discovery layer" is severely crippled because I don't want to write > a indexer for our MARC records unless it becomes necessary (ie, better > searching is needed but writing a VuFind driver or integrating with Kochief > isn't yet feasible). All books entered in this system also have MARC > records associated with them, so a solr or other front end can be added > later. > > 3. If you'd like to try uploading a MARC record, email it to me and I'll put > it up for anyone to enter through the cataloging app. > > 4. This is written in django. Hooray for python! > > 5. This is not at all perfect yet. here is my todolist so far (please add > to it): > > when checking a book out, do not allow a due date later than the current > lease on the book. > subtitle, does this really need to be limited to 100 characters? > create an end of day script that: > sends emails to books that are due back soon > sends emails to books that are overdue > activate fines model and add an Fine.calcuate() method > make a legit zipcode field. current one accepts<5 digits > > thanks for reading, > Elliot