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WebVoyáge with a Wrapper Michael Doran, Systems Librarian doran@ Once upon a time… What is a handsome OPAC? Aesthetically handsome Functionally handsome An OPAC is “handsome” if it is simple to use is intuitive to use makes it easy to find stuff “Only librarians like to search, everybody else likes to find.” – Roy Tennant Simple searches WebVoyáge simple search The secret handshakes last name, first name for author searches no initial articles for title searches Library of Congress subject headings Boolean operators what an index browse is It was soooo simple… WebVoyáge simple search (after) keyword anywhere search words within quotes are treated as a phrase other words are automatically Boolean ANDed* relevancy ranked results* Code WebVoyáge server-side back end WebVoyáge is a “black box” They call it a wrapper They call it a wrapper Basic wrapper script Do your thing to that datastream aka “screen scraping” “A technique in which a computer program extracts data from the display output of another program. The key element that distinguishes screen scraping from regular parsing is that the output being scraped was intended for final display to a human user, rather than as input to another program, and is therefore usually neither documented nor structured for convenient parsing.” [from Wikipedia] text wrangling add text delete text rearrange text Example – adding text Voyager’s “header.htm” file is inserted after the body tag okay for display tags, but not for others Wrapper script can insert elements within the head tag metadata JavaScript CSS Example – adding text Example – removing text Example – rearranging text Wrapper script redux Read and parse form input QUERY_STRING (get method) STDIN (post method) Truncation adaptation Incoming data Incoming data Example – truncation adaptation Example – truncation adaptation Other input data munging fix Voyager 6.x GKEY/TKEY/SKEY keyword “multiple spaces no hits bug (Support Web incident #131344) $search_arg =~