Friday, March 28, 2008

Series authors and work info in your catalog

I've added two small-ish features that point the way to other features:

Series Authors: Series pages now show all series authors, with photos if there are any. (The example below is from Star Wars.) Mouse-over a picture to get the name. In general, I want to move in the direction of graphical representations like this. I dislike profile pictures, but this is something different. It's attractive, I think, and encourages people to add author photos.

Work info in you catalog: You can add the field "Work: Title and author" to your catalog display. In the example below you can see I have two copies of the work, the Histories and that my Penguin edition three Aeschyls play is otherwise known as the Oresteia. Incidentally, it cannot current sort by work title. If you sort by the "shared" column, however, it sorts by shared-copies which basically "groups" by work anyway.

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can you put more than one work in the Work/title field, or have multiple w/t fields? Example: your Penguin book.

3/29/2008 11:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can you edit Tags in the LT?

3/30/2008 4:43 PM  
Blogger T. said...

I figure that since you are setting up this blog perhaps you can help me with mine. I put Library Thing as a link on my blog. This (a blog) is a new endeavor for me, hence the question. When I click on the Library Thing link that I put up, it brings up the site with my log-in and password. If other viewers click on the link on my blog will they be logged in as me, too?

3/31/2008 3:12 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

No. Log-in is all about "cookies." Nobody else is signed in as you.

3/31/2008 3:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If this feature is going to be linked via an image, are you planning to have individualized alt text for the various works? Again, I'm concerned about screen reader accessibility. You're probably getting tired of me already...

3/31/2008 4:05 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

All the images have a piece of text (not alt text but real text) comprising the author's name, which is also linked.

3/31/2008 4:31 PM  

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