LCCN

[Joshua McGee]

On 3/14/07, Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org> wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2007, Joshua McGee wrote:
> > I'm a nut for LCCNs.  I don't see an option to sort by LCCN in
> > Tellico.  If I'm not just missing it, and its absence is due to a lack
> > of a spec, I wrote some code (in Perl) a while back to do it.  It is:
>
> I'm assuming that this is something more than just a simple numerical or
> string-based sort? That it's breaking the LCCN into fields?

Yes.  Different numerical fields are actually sorted differently in
the LCCN spec, sometimes in strict ascending fashion, and sometimes by
treating them as digits after a decimal point.  More here:
http://www.mcgees.org/2001/08/08/sort-by-library-of-congress-call-number-in-perl/

Tellico's in c++?  I could write a sort routine and send it to you.

> > That being said, I cannot really get Tellico to work with LCCNs.  My
> > ideal collection app would let me scan the Bookland EAN with my
> > barcode scanner, and have it scrape both Amazon and the LoC for all
> > available information.
>
> It's intended to work that way.

Intended to search both data sources with one search, and merge them?
Maybe this is related to the failure I'm seeing on LoC lookups.  Could
you tell me the LoC parameters (port, gateway, etc.) that you are
using successfully?

I'll try it from the command line when I get back to my Linux box.

> > Also -- presumably there's a way to change the Amazon Associate ID in
> > HTML output to one's own?  Maybe in an XSL?  Not to sound totally
> > ungrateful....
>
> But you can change it for any future searches by editing the
> ~/.kde/share/config/tellicorc file and finding the section for the Amazon
> search. Modify (or Add) the line that starts with AssocToken.

Thank you, that's what I was looking for.

- Joshua McGee
http://www.mcgees.org