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Installing Scriblio 2.3

Note: Cross-posted at Remaining Relevant.

Preparation

  1. Be sure your Apache installation has mod_rewrite enabled.
  2. Download and install WordPress 2.3.1
  3. Set your permalinks. Do this through Options -> Permalinks; personally, I like numeric. When you save, pay attention to the prompt regarding the .htaccess file – if it says that you must update it yourself, do so! (this may mean you have to create it.) If it says it’s been updated, you’re good.
  4. Be sure your wp-content folder is web-writable.
  5. It’ll be easier for you to switch to the Classic Theme instead of the Default theme.

Make it Scriblio

  1. Download bSuite and place it in your wp-content/plugins/ folder. Then enable it in your blog’s dashboard -> Plugins.
  2. Download the Scriblio plugin. I recommend getting the files from the svn depository, either by installing Subversion or by copying all the files in the trunk into a scriblio folder in your plugins folder. If you go this route, be sure to get them all including the import directory and all its contents.
  3. Activate the Scriblio plugin and the Scriblio Catalog Importer. Optionally, you can also activate the Scriblio III Catalog Importer (only useful if you’re working with a Innovative Interfaces ILS). I’m going to continue these instructions with the Scriblio Catalog Importer.

Bring in the catalog

  1. Let’s import some records. Choose the Scriblio Catalog Importer in Manage -> Import. And follow the instructions. If you don’t have a MARC export handy, you can try it with mine.
  2. If the records import and harvest with no problems, go to Presentation -> Widgets.
  3. This is all customizable, but for demonstration, scroll to the very bottom and choose five or so Scriblio facets.
  4. Drag the Search, Scrib Search Editor, Scrib Scope Selector, Scrib Spelling, and a few Scrib Facets into the sidebar.
  5. Fill in the text boxes of the Search Editor, Scrib Spelling, and Scope Selector. You can see what facets are available to you in the Options -> Scriblio screen. Try auth in one, subj in one, format in another. Save.
  6. Go to Options->Scriblio and Rebuild Spelling Table.
  7. Let’s try some searches–you should see facets and other goodies in the sidebar.
  8. Now play around with themes and widgets to customize.

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By Casey Bisson | October 30, 2007 – 10:49 pm | Comments (15)
 

15 Responses to “Installing Scriblio 2.3”

  • 1
    » Internet Librarian 2007 Presentation: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    [...] though it’s the sort of thing only a fool would do, I’m also planning to demonstrate how to install Scriblio, a web 2.0 platform for libraries (foolish because I plan to do it live and in real [...]

  • 2
    Dominic Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    Hi – I am trying to install Scriblio (on Mac OS 10.4 – using MAMP)

    When I activate the importer plugin I get the message
    “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

    Any ideas?

  • 3
    Scriblio már 2.3-as WP-n is at élet és könyvtár Says:
    November 5th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    [...] elérhető a Scriblio telepítési útmutatója az új, 2.3-as verziószámú WordPress-hez is, ami ugye alaposan megkavarta a címkézési [...]

  • 4
    Dbourrion Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 5:58 am

    Hi.
    I got a “Fatal error” each tme I try to activate the Scriblio plugin… Should you help me ? Thanks a lot.

  • 5
    Andrew Heiss Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    I’m thinking of using Scriblio to create a catalog. Can it create its own OPAC, or should I use some official open source OPAC or ILS? If so, what would work best for Scriblio?

  • 6
    Collum Says:
    November 16th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    I was getting the fatal error as well, but then I figured out I was running php 4 instead of 5.

  • 7
    Casey Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    @Andrew Heiss:

    Scriblio is a complete OPAC replacement, but not an ILS. You can do original cataloging in Scriblio, but you’ll likely want to import records from elsewhere. As of today there are libraries getting records from an Innovative Interfaces ILS, Infocenter, plain old MARC exports, and Flickr. Work is being done to build an importer for Horizon, and the import architecture is such that an importer could be written for almost any type of data or format.

  • 8
    » People Make Scriblio Better Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

    [...] way cool to see Lichen’s Scriblio installation instructions translated to Hungarian. Even cooler to have Sarah the tagging librarian take hard look at it and [...]

  • 9
    Scriblio » Scriblio 2.3 v4 Released Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    [...] Follow the directions at the download page and in Lichen’s walkthrough. [...]

  • 10
    » Scriblio 2.3 v4 Released Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    [...] 2.3 v4 is out. See it. Download it. Install it. Join the mail [...]

  • 11
    Agung Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 12:37 am

    I always get error when activate scriblio plugins.

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/stikoedu/public_html/agung/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/scriblio/scriblio.php on line 83

    please..need help. thank you

  • 12
    Leslie Vogt Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    Casey:

    We are seriously considering installing Scriblio so that we can have an online OPAC. Fortunately there is a volunteer in town who is skilled with word press and data bases in general. Have you heard of any one who might be building a scriblio extension (or whatever the proper term is) for all the circulation functions?

    Leslie Vogt
    Josiah Carpenter Library
    Pittsfield, NH

  • 13
    Phil Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    Can you use this to connect directly into the ILS database, so patrons can view “live” status information? It seems the data would only be valid as of the last import date/time.

  • 14
    Casey Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    @Phil: Yes!

    The data must be imported and indexed for Scriblio to work, but essential real time data like availability and location of an item are best represented live from the ILS. That’s exactly how it works at Plymouth State University, see this example: http://library.plymouth.edu/read/222334 . The location and status information are being fetched from the ILS as the page is generated (the result is then cached for a short time).

    Here’s a not-quite-current example of the code: http://about.scriblio.net/wiki/scrib_availability . When a record is displayed, a typical install calls the scrib_availability function, and that’s how the data gets fetched in real time.

  • 15
    Casey Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    @Leslie Vogt:

    Scriblio is rather narrowly focused on the challenges of representing the collection of the library, making it easily findable and accessible, and making it social. I’m not aware of anybody trying to build circulation functions at this time, but it’s something that can be done.

    That said, I should also point out that Scriblio works interactively with existing ILSs (see the note above) to display current availability. And when that’s not easily available, as for Tamworth’s Cook Memorial Library, it’s not as dearly missed as you might suspect.