Can I create two separate bibliographies on the same site? (Biblio collections) [#217612]

Hi I have a website using your tremendously amazing module, which really contributed to the success of my organization. Exemple here

As you can see we have created a database of theses in this specific field. We now have a new project aiming at collecting bibliographical information on unpublished Russian works in this field. These works can be theses, articles, anything.... My point is that we would like to create another biblio database on the site (that would be completely independant from the first one).

I am completely useless when it comes to programming, but I can manage to tweak some stuff in Drupal. My first dumb idea was to create a second folder in the "modules" folder called "biblio2". I didn't put it into practice because I am guessing this will not work, but I am really trying to figure out how difficult that can be.

Any guesses?

Thanks in advance and thanks again for providing this module!!!!!!!

Comments

Comment #1

rjerome CreditAttribution: rjerome commented 4 February 2008 at 14:21

Your right, putting a second copy of the module directory will not work since what really needs to be duplicated are the database tables, not the code.

At this time not really possible, but I do know of one other person who went through the code and renamed all the references to the table names, however I wouldn't recommend it. I am working on a new feature that might solve your problem, called "collections". This will allow you to group entries into "collections" and restrict access to them, this will not be available for a month or two though.

You say you want a completely separate database, but my thought on this is that it doesn't need to be separate as long as there is some way to identify each entry as belonging to a certain collection.

Ron.

Comment #2

gostram CreditAttribution: gostram commented 4 February 2008 at 14:30

Ye. That sounds even better. The task force on Russian literature is set up as an organic group for now, so having it linked to the bibliography would be great! Thanks for the great work!!

Comment #3

zhahai CreditAttribution: zhahai commented 1 March 2008 at 04:21

I have a somewhat different need, which may be related. I would like to define different node types based on the biblio node.
Different node types means they can have different additional fields and vocabulary associations.

For example,

node type bib1 = biblio + cck field A + cck field B + vocabulary X + vocabulary Y
node type bib2 = biblio + cck field C + cck field D + vocabulary X + vocabulary Z

Extra credit: It would be even better if one could search the biblio based fields for both in one pass.

Maybe this is inherently impossible. Or would this be the equivalent of making the set of biblio fields a CCK field type, which could be added to any node type?

Or can this be done with some kind of linked nodes?

Thanks for any leads...