Re: Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs

From: Alejandro Garza Gonzalez <alejandro.garza_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:34:53 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
We're including Google Books links--not images--in our test
Drupal-Millennium Opac. (Thanks Tim Spalding for the code)

We're getting the images from another (in-house) script, where we either
show our local image from our digitizing efforts or fall back to an
empty image.

Right now we're getting a Server Error
<http://books.google.com/books?jscmd=viewapi&bibkeys=0812115945&callback=millennium_ProcessGBSBookInfo>
from the Google Books API, but you can later try out our test opac here:
     http://enlinea.mty.itesm.mx/es/search/apachesolr_search/handbook

_alex


Frederic Demians said the following on 17/05/2008 12:56 a.m.:
>> I think what people were complaining about was not just that there wsa a
>> wait for the image to show up, but that there was for some reason a wait
>> for _other_ parts of the page to load, parts that were unrelated to GBS
>> but for some reason were waiting for GBS to load before they could load.
>> I don't think that is intended by GBS API?
>
> Obviously, it isn't. I would be curious to see one of those pages to
> figure out how such a thing is possible.
> --
> Frédéric
>

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