On Apr 16, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Stefano Bargioni <bargi...@pusc.it> wrote:
> the Library of the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Rome, has added > AuthorityBox to the display of bibliographic records. AuthorityBox is an > "accordion" composed by an infobox for each personal name related to the > record. An extra infobox is for settings, help and about. Each infobox may > contain: > > - information from the authority record > - links to other resources available in the library, like the "Name Cloud" > - links to external resources, like "WorldCat Identities" and Wikipedia > pages > - a picture from Wikidata > - the permalink of the authority record (hidden by default, use settings to > show) > > Examples: > > http://catalogo.pusc.it/bib/182859 (1 author) > http://catalogo.pusc.it/bib/95161 (5 authors) > http://catalogo.pusc.it/bib/88801 (10 authors) > > Some technicalities. > > AuthorityBox is based on VIAF id [1] and other data from MARC21 authority > records, in compliance with RDA Cataloguing Guidelines [2]. > Links are composed, directly or indirectly, on the VIAF id or the authority > id. For instance, the source of the picture is retrieved by the browser that > accesses the SPARQL endpoint query.wikidata.org. For teachers of our > University, without a page on Wikipedia, pictures are from a simple > repository. The ILS is the open source Koha [3]. > > [1] https://viaf.org > [2] https://www.oclc.org/en/rda/about.html > [3] https://koha-community.org > > -- > Stefano From what I can tell, the AuthoritBox is pretty cool. Search catalog. Identify an item of interest. View record. See, learn, and easily navigate to more information based authority items. Such a thing stretches the definition of a library catalog beyond an inventory list to more towards a knowledge tool, IMHO. Try also --> http://catalogo.pusc.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=115244 Very interesting, and thank you for bringing it to our attention. --Eric Morgan
