Supported library types

BIBLIOTHECA (BOND2.6)

I started with "Web-Opac" from the German company "BOND" in version 2.6, because this is the one my hometown's library uses.

Technical difficulties

• Everything is session-based, direct hyperlinks are possible to hardly anything
• We only get to now the book's unique IDs from a HTML comment on the search result pages
• In every city, the amount and order of table columns is different (wtf?)

Additional data needed in JSON file

Example file:

{
 "api": "bond26", 
 "city": "Mannheim", 
 "data": {
  "accounttable": [
   0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  ], 
  "baseurl": "http://katalog.mannheim.de/wopac", 
  "copiestable": [
   0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  ], 
  "information": "/../read/info.html", 
  "reservationtable": [
   0, 1, 2, 3, 5
  ]
 }, 
 "support": "Volle Unterstützung", 
 "title": null
}

The three extra arrays in data are due to the fact that in each city the order of columns in tables like the table of existing copies of a book is different. The three arrays specify those orders. The mapping is as follows:

• copiestable (Table of existing copies of a search result): Barcode, point of presence, department, location, status, return date, current reservations
• accounttable (Table of borrowed books): Barcode, author, title, return date, status, point of presence (book's home), point of presence (where you lent it out), link to extend period
• reservationtable (Table of reserved books): Author, title, date of availability, point of presence, link to cancel
• mediatypes (optional): A mapping of image file names to de.geeksfactory.opacclient.objects.SearchResult.MediaType constants
• db (optional): Database name (used for Web-Opac installations which have multiple databases)

A copiestable array like [0, 2, -1, …] would mean: "Column 0 contains the barcode, Column 2 contains the point of presence, there is no column containing the department, …"

SISIS SunRise (OCLC2011)

This software, which for example is in use in Bonn doesn't say anything about it's manufacturer but a "Copyright © 2011. OCLC" at the end of the page. So, I called the api OCLC2011. OCLC is some huge cooperative and for a few weeks I know this Opac is the SISIS-SunRise product.

Technical difficulties

• Everything is session-based, direct hyperlinks are possible to hardly anything
• We only get to now the book's unique IDs in some installations which have a extension called BibTip and reveals the IDs in some div to be used by BibTip's javascript.

Account support is not yet implemented because I have very little data on it. There is a Bavarian library which promised my an account number but I didn't recieve one yet. Please get in touch with me if you can help.

Zones22

This software is in use in Hamburg. Compared to the ones above it was quite easy to implement but just as with the others some parts were very ugly to do and shouldn't be very robust.

Account support is not yet implemented because I got an insight into it. Please get in touch with me if you can help.