Managing Scriblio

You’re running Scriblio at your place of work. You need to know about the WordPress interface, the new vocabulary you’ll be working with, and some decisions you may want to make. Here’s everything you need to know in three steps:

Get yourself logged in and take a look at the Dashboard.
Create and edit Pages for content that doesn’t change much, and use Posts for news — anything you’d put on your bulletin board or in your newsletter.
Build and interact with your community through comments, though you’ll also probably need to deal with spam and create your own comment policy.

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6 Responses to “Managing Scriblio”

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Lukas Koster Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Does Scriblio have different authentication levels (roles), like WordPress (admins, editors, contributors, etc.)? I do not see the “Users” menu option in the Dashboard image (http://about.scriblio.net/wiki/dashboard).
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Casey Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Lukas Koster: Yes!

Scriblio has all the same user management roles as WordPress. The dashboard image was taken from a user with “author” or “editor” role, that’s why you don’t see the Users tab.
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Mike Lynch Says:
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
How do you keep Scriblio in synch with your III catalog? I can see periodically importing newer titles, but what about edits and deletes?
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Casey Says:
May 24th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
@Mike Lynch: A question like that would probably be a good one for the mail list:

http://groups.google.com/group/scriblio

Deletes are easy, as that can be checked when the location and availability information is checked (see http://about.scriblio.net/wiki/scrib_availability ). It’s not a serious factor now (and I haven’t coded anything for it), but the solution is at least pretty easy.

As for updating edited records, that hasn’t been much of a problem yet — I’ve had reasons to reindex the collection a few times already. Longer term, however, the question of even getting a list of recently edited records out of the ILS has seen considerable discussion on my vendor’s mail list.
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Rachel Says:
November 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I have successfully installed scriblio on my website.

I just need to either be able to download a sample catalog to figure out what format to write my MARC records into (xml?) - or just to be told what file form my MARC records should be. (Sample would be best) However the links to the sample catalog are all broken or return “file not found.
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Casey Says:
November 10th, 2008 at 12:14 am
@Rachel:

A sample record set can be had here:
http://about.scriblio.net/downloads/ScriblioSampleMarcRecords.mrc.zip

The most difficult challenge in importing MARC records is in identifying a field that can represent the source id the record. That is, a field that uniquely identifies that record in a way that can prevent duplicates. The field generally varies based on the system the records are coming from, but you can get a view of the data in the record by ticking the “debug mode” checkbox. The example’s offered on screen there may help:

to use barcodes from Infocenter: [852][0]->subfields['p']
or to use the the Project Gutenburg ID: ['000'][0]->data
or to use the LCCN: ['001'][0]->data

The sample records are from Infocenter, so use the first example.

This recent message to the Scriblio mail list have a few more tips:
http://groups.google.com/group/scriblio/msg/9956c337d5c8802c

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