Robby Stephenson | 1 Feb 07:53
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Re: Best webcam for barcode scanning?

On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Conte Mascetti wrote:
> Kudos to Robby and everyone who helped, I'm going to love release 1.3...
> ;-)
>
> I wish to buy a webcam just for barcode scanning, someone can suggest me
> a model that works right for this purpose?

I'd be curious, too. I don't actually have one, the code was contributed, so 
I'd like to test it out myself.

Robby
Robby Stephenson | 1 Feb 07:55
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Re: Issn seach

On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> So, there's some nice person that wants to spend some time in make some
> improvements of the Library of Congress to obtain information using  the
> issn?

I think it'd just be a different field for the z39.50 search. I'd have to 
check, though. A script that called the yaz library would work pretty well, 
too. There are perl bindings for that, I think.

Robby

Re: Issn seach

A Divendres 01 Febrer 2008, Robby Stephenson va escriure:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> > So, there's some nice person that wants to spend some time in make some
> > improvements of the Library of Congress to obtain information using  the
> > issn?
>
> I think it'd just be a different field for the z39.50 search. I'd have to
> check, though. A script that called the yaz library would work pretty well,
> too. There are perl bindings for that, I think.
>
Ok, 

I have found that for example, checking this link [1], i can do a search at 
the library of the Universitat de les Illes Balears, making a search with the 
issn.

How can I incorporate this to tellico?

Regards,

Leo

[1] 
http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/z3950/balears.html,130.206.134.239,210&CI=071555

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feloy2 | 2 Feb 18:51
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Classical music collection

Tellico developers,

CDDBs, CD players and CD collection managers do not work very well with classical music at this time.

I'm trying to resolve this problem, with the website http://rondo.fr (and http://clacica.com)

From this website, it is possible to get information about classical music CDs, like from CDDBs, but with extended information about composers, interprets and movements.

You can get an example at the URL: http://rondo.fr/cddb/?id=0x6f0f2e08

I would be very happy if you were interested to use the data from this website, and could make some development if needed to adapt the XML schema exported from URLs like above.

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Jeff Bradberry | 3 Feb 05:40
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Wishlist: Fast individual barcode scans for Internet Search (patch included)

Hello,

The included patch makes two changes to the functionality of the
Internet Search dialog, to streamline the process of scanning in large
numbers of books.  The first is that the entire contents of the text
field are selected whenever a search is performed, making it
unnecessary to manually clear the field before doing the next search.
The second change arbitrarily adds the top search result to the user's
collection, if (and only if) the user fails to manually select one
before doing the next search.

These changes make it unnecessary to switch between the scanner and
the mouse for every search.  Simply using the existing Multiple
ISBN/UPC search mode wasn't exactly what I wanted, since I want to
visually check the results of each individual scan as I do them.

Other than this, Tellico seems like a great piece of software.  Thanks.

Jeff Bradberry
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jaywalker14 | 3 Feb 05:52
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Re: Tellico 1.3 Released


Curses! Everything was going fine with linking images. Now I find that the
program has slowed down dramatically, so it takes forever to do "Save Entry"
and "Save". This is after I have linked a different photo to each of 200
entries. The more I linked, the slower it got. As I want to have around 5000
entries, this does not seem to be workable.

When I do a filter search or otherwise just look at the entries, it works
fine. It's just the editing that's so slow.

I took care to check the "Save Link only" option in each case so I don't
think an additional copy of the photo is being saved by Tellico. There
certainly isn't any evidence of this in the 
/home/me/.kde/share/apps/tellico/data folder.

Also, in "Configure Tellico", there are 3 option, "Store images in data
file", "Store images in common application directory" and "Store images in
directory relative to data file". If I am asking Tellico to "Save Link
Only", does it matter which one of the above 3 is checked?

Regards

Jay

jaywalker14 wrote:
> 
> I've tried this and it looks really good. I asked a while ago for the
> ability to link images without having to have them copied etc and this is
> now included. Works very well so far.
> 
> Many thanks for this Robbie.
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
> Robby Stephenson wrote:
>> 
>> OK, so Tellico 1.3 is available. I just tagged it. Grab it from
>> http://periapsis.org/tellico/download/
>> 
>> 
>>     * Added option to save image files in a local directory relative to
>> data 
>> file
>>     * Added option to save a link to an image file instead of copying it
>>   
>> 
> 
> 

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Robby Stephenson | 3 Feb 08:03
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Re: Tellico 1.3 Released

On Saturday 02 February 2008, jaywalker14 wrote:
> Curses! Everything was going fine with linking images. Now I find that
> the program has slowed down dramatically, so it takes forever to do "Save
> Entry" and "Save". This is after I have linked a different photo to each
> of 200 entries. The more I linked, the slower it got. As I want to have
> around 5000 entries, this does not seem to be workable.

I'll see if I can find some performance improvements. Off the top of my 
head, the image caching may not be very smart, and it's treating linked 
images the same as ones from a zip file. I'll take a look.

> Also, in "Configure Tellico", there are 3 option, "Store images in data
> file", "Store images in common application directory" and "Store images
> in directory relative to data file". If I am asking Tellico to "Save Link
> Only", does it matter which one of the above 3 is checked?

No, it shouldn't.

Robby
Robby Stephenson | 3 Feb 08:04
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Re: Catalog pdfs & the wish for a central data directory

On Thursday 31 January 2008, Michael Zimmermann wrote:
> the extraction of pdf metadata is really excellent news.  As I use
> tellico to catalogue a substantial amount of research related pdfs this
> is a great usability improvement. Thank you!

Cool...

> Either I first copy the pdf to this directory and then have to find the
> file again - difficult if you are talking > 100 files - or you import it
> from a different directory (here called incoming) and move it to the
> final directiory later on. The later leads to broken links in tellico.

Oh come on, sort by date! :)

> So, how about an option: Copy pdf / file to the data directory upon
> import? This would be similar to the solution you developed for images.
> May be add an option to define a custom directory for pdfs / generic
> files.

Definitely an idea to keep around. It's a bit different than for images, but 
maybe there's more commonality there that I can exploit in the code.

Robby
Robby Stephenson | 3 Feb 08:05
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Re: Classical music collection

On Saturday 02 February 2008, feloy2@... wrote:
>    From this website, it is possible to get information about
> classical music CDs, like from CDDBs, but with extended information
> about composers, interprets and movements.
>
>    You can get an example at the URL: http://rondo.fr/cddb/?id=0x6f0f2e08
>
> I would be very happy if you were interested to use the data from this
> website, and could make some development if needed to adapt the XML
> schema exported from URLs like above.

Awesome. The XML looks straight-forward enough. Is there a preferred way of 
executing a search and getting an XML result?

Robby
Feloy2 | 3 Feb 09:06
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Re: Classical music collection

Robby,

Thanks for your interest. The two ways at this time to get an XML result 
for a CD are:

- by its cddbid, at the url http://rondo.fr/cddb/?id=0x<cddbid>

- to browse the website and find the page for your cd (but at this point 
a CDDB id is not always known for the CD - it is possible to link a 
cddbid with a CD via the interface : 
http://rondo.fr/cddb/ajout.php?id=<idcd>&cddb_id=<cddbid>, where idcd is 
the id seen in the URL like http://rondo.fr/cd.php?id=78 ).

Which kind of search do you think about?

Philippe

Robby Stephenson a écrit :
> On Saturday 02 February 2008, feloy2@... wrote:
>>    From this website, it is possible to get information about
>> classical music CDs, like from CDDBs, but with extended information
>> about composers, interprets and movements.
>>
>>    You can get an example at the URL: http://rondo.fr/cddb/?id=0x6f0f2e08
>>
>> I would be very happy if you were interested to use the data from this
>> website, and could make some development if needed to adapt the XML
>> schema exported from URLs like above.
> 
> Awesome. The XML looks straight-forward enough. Is there a preferred way of 
> executing a search and getting an XML result?
> 
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