Taggytastic! (part 2)

Wow! Fame and glory – hopefully the untold riches will be just around the corner! 😉
For anyone who wants to have a go with their Horizon/HIP, I’ve uploaded the script to here:
http://www.daveyp.com/files/stuff/tags/
I’ve done a little bit of tweaking, and the final keyword list now looks like this.
You’ll need to download the Perl script and the sample config.txt file.
As with many of the other scripts I’ve uploaded, you’ll need a working ODBC connection to your Horizon database – if you’re running ReportSmith or EasyAsk, then you’ll know all about that. You’ll also need to have Perl installed, along with the DBD::ODBC module from CPAN.
The config.txt file has three columns:

• the first column defines the range for each keyword count, and this works with the $threshold variable to select the font size & colour for each keyword in the HTML output
• the second column defines the font size – you should be able to use any valid CSS value (e.g. 50%, 10px, or x-small, etc)
• the final column defines the font colour – in the example file I’ve gone for a blue gradient (#006 thu #77D), but if you prefer a single colour then just change all the entries to that (e.g. #00F) – again, you should be able to use any valid CSS value (#123456, red, etc)

To run the script, just put it in the same directory as the config.txt file and run it (e.g. perl getsubjects.txt). The HTML output file should get created in the same directory.
There’s a few variables that you can tweak:

• $minimumBibs – this is used in the intial SQL query on the subject table, so a lower value means more subjects will be included for processing, but the query might take longer to run and/or hit your Horizon server harder
• $threshold – once all the subjects have processed, any whose total number of matching bibs fall below the threshold value will be exlcuded from the output – if you’d prefer a smaller list of keywords in the HTML output, then choose a higher value and vice versa
• $spacing – this is a string of characters to insert between each keyword
• $hipUrl – unless you really want to link to our HIP, then you’ll need to tweak this URL

Have fun with the script!
Jenny emailed me to ask if the script could work with other systems (e.g. Innovative), so I’m going to have a go writing a smaller version of the script that will take a list of keywords and counts, such as the example below, and then create the same output:
1237 American poetry
381 Java
857 World Wide Web
…so, as long as you can query your system to get something in the above format, then it should work.
[one quick sandwich and Coke later]
…and here is a more general version of the script that should work with other systems:
http://www.daveyp.com/files/stuff/tags2/
As well as the Perl script, you’ll need to download the config.txt file. Also, you’ll need to create your own subjects.txt file – I’ve included a sample one so you can get a rough idea of the layout.
As before, you can do a bit of tweaking with the variables and the config.txt file to customise the final HTML output.
Horizon users who don’t want to faff around with getting the first script to use ODBC can generate their own subjects.txt by copying the output of running the following SQL statement in SQL Advantage (or similar):
select n_bibs,processed from subject where n_bibs > 50
…however, you won’t get the advantage of the way the first script collapses sub-subjects together.