[Koha-devel] new feature : catalogue browsing

[Paul POULAIN]

Hello,

I've just commited a new feature, called "catalogue browsing".
A new script in misc/cronjobs/build_browser_and_cloud.pl will fill 2 new 
tables.
- One for "tag cloud" searching : the tags are not filled by the users 
themselves, but from the catalogue. I plan to add later a feature to 
have a user-level tag system + a p2p system to share tags. for instance 
the "tag cloud" table will be filled from the catalogue only.
- One for "Catalogue browsing" : depending on the parameters you give to 
build_browser_and_cloud.pl script, you'll fill the browser table, that 
let the user browse the catalogue. If you have dewey classification in 
your catalogue, you'll be able to dig the dewey hierarchy (3 => 31 => 
311 => 311.2 ...), and define description for the 3, 31, 311... french 
dewey has been commited & you can see the result at : 
http://o17.bureau.paulpoulain.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-browser.pl

It should be easy to add english dewey, Loc classification or any other 
hierarchic classification.

TO DO :
- improve the build_... script, to have an option to update only 
last-week bilbio modifications. This can be made easily, but at the 
price of imprecision in the counters, which is cheap imho. The 
"complete" calculus can be run once a month anyway. But note that, on my 
computer, it calculates 50 biblios/seconds
- add a screen, in admin section, to let the library define their 
descriptions for the browser.

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Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT
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