8th of april

Meeting with Library/Archive team

It seems connecting the two-person-book-club to the Concerto library system isn't as easy as we hoped for. Also, we would need Coby and Ruud to help us set up and they're extremely busy with setting up the selfservice stations at Bloemendaal. We discussed some options to do a more low-tech version.

• Do a papercard version (leave little notes on bookmarks and leave these in the books)
• Do a photobooth version and connect the images and comments to a specific RFID key (place picnic reference here)
• Do an ISBN version and get the data through a webservice

ISBN barcode scanning and webservices

To still get the metadata of a book we could use the ISBN number and a webservice to request the metadata. To get the ISBN number of a book we could scan the barcode (not the library barcode).

Webservices that we could use:

• worldcat.org (this one is really good)
• google book api

Barcode scanners apparently aren't that expensive. At posdata.nl there is a USB scanner available for 50 euros. It's a HID device that inputs the data as if it were a keyboard.

Clientside & Serverside

Marc and I thought it would be best to set the system up as a web application. The server-side logic and the database would run on Marc's server and the client application would be website built with action-/java-script. The client website/app uses the barcode scanner and a webcam. This way the system could be easily tweaker and maintained by us.

Todo

• Order barcode scanner
• Order webcam
• Build system
• Arrange computer at library
• Arrange space at library
• Build booth
• Really think hard about the total experience/interface

Tomorrow

Mirella and I will meet at Concordia tomorrow at 10.30. Martijn can't be there and gave me the keys. :)