<div dir="ltr">Don't try to reinvent libraries! They have been doing it for centuries. Logon to the catalog at your local public library and see what they do. There are only a handful of companies that produce the software for all the library catalogs. It is a very tough job to compete with their resources. I once tried to put our non-profits library catalog online on our website. I gave up and used Library Thing as a third party solution. .</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Shérab <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org" target="_blank">Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
I'm using D7 to build a catalog rerefencing books available in<br>
different libraries and in different formats (Audio, Digital text,<br>
Braille...).<br>
<br>
To achieve this I define a content type for bibliographic recors. It has<br>
fields for title, author, ISBN, book description. And also I consider<br>
using the composed_field module to define an item filed. So a<br>
bibliographic record will have as many item fields as there are<br>
available books in different libraries. Each item filed should include<br>
at least the type of item, (Braille, audio, etc.), the library that owns<br>
it and a link for getting more information.<br>
<br>
My question is: how best describing libraries in Drupal? Ideally one<br>
shold be able to use a library name as a taxonomy field (clicking on it<br>
will show all the books for which the library has at least one item of<br>
that book). But one may also want to associate othe rinformation to a<br>
library. At the minimum a link to its website, but perhaps also<br>
aphysical address, a phone number, perhaps even freeform text info, so<br>
that would suggest to create a dedicated content type for libraries but<br>
then I suspect that the benefits of taxonomy fields would be lost.<br>
<br>
Any comment on how to best represent libraries in particular but also on<br>
the general architecture described above would be warmly appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks a lot in advance!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Shérab.<br>
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