tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21150821.post7452405916811355051..comments2023-08-28T17:46:29.286-04:00Comments on New Jack Librarian: More thoughts about ebooks and online reference collectionsMitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17662779929151451964noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21150821.post-1911788607634685962009-12-01T18:19:32.715-05:002009-12-01T18:19:32.715-05:00Drupal has this concept of nodes: "the generi...Drupal has this concept of nodes: "the generic term for a piece of content on your web site." (Since I'm commenting, I won't link, but all quotes are from the Drupal site, somewhere.) The node module allows "Modules and scripts [to] programmatically submit nodes using the usual form API pattern." Which means nodes on a website could conceivably be added or edited by triggering a cron job that either requests info through an API or reads a feed.<br /><br />We think of nodes as being equivalent to posts/pages, but it seems they can be much more: "By using modules such as the contributed Content Construction Kit (CCK) module, the core Taxonomy module, and the contributed Location module, you can add fields and other properties to your nodes."<br /><br />Can we imagine a node for each reference title (and each item on the a-z list as well, which is reference too of course)? Could these nodes come from a feed generated by one or more sources? Most of our ebooks are supposed to be in Conifer (aren't they?) but Conifer only has one RSS generator: bookbags!<br /><br />But Conifer does have a public API, although it's not well documented. There may be a way to pull a specific set of ebook records and call it Reference.pzedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07064954185315215061noreply@blogger.com