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Port Legacy Library Data to something sane #84

Open GrumpyOldTroll opened 4 years ago

GrumpyOldTroll commented 4 years ago

Regarding https://www.chaliceuu.org/learning/church-library/

Back when our legacy site was our public site, the library catalog was part of the public site, and it's still publicly reachable.

We have some custom tables, forms, and views for maintaining the books in the library as part of the legacy site: https://github.com/CVUUFellowship/church/blob/master/db/mysqldump-schema-cvuuf.org.sql#L458

It's actually still even maintained, by Sylvia Flores Johnson. There were 2 new entries added last November 19th.

Ideally we could import this wholesale into something sane. There was an attempt (stalled and I think abandoned) to add a wordpress library maintenance plugin and move the info to there. There were a few complications, among which was that apparently the numbering system differs in places from the standard one, so importing the dewey decimal categorization via an external ISBN database means the tags on the books don't match. Plus there are some books that don't have an ISBN number, from some kind of non-standard publishing channel(s?).

But currently, these links aren't wrong, even though they point to the legacy site. There is real and maintained information there, kept roughly up to date over the last several decades, that would be nice to keep somehow and to make more useful.