CalPhotos - Raymond Yee's Wiki

Important: I will need to figure out the implication of the

In pondering how to interface CalPhotos with the ScholarsBox, I thought about how to screen-scrape the system. The query forms that can be studied to figure out how to generate the right queries:

Paleontology Collections Database Query form
UCMP paleontology photo collection

A good place to start is to read How to Link to the Photos.

I was wondering whether there would be a way to generate some XML from the CalPhotos system. One idea is to do the query: UCMP collection (200 items) and then pass the results to HTML Tidy. This is probably not a great idea to try to parse this (because the resulting XHTML(?) is a mess, even though it might be the only way to get all the images.

Another approach is to use the text query mode to get a HTML table. Example 1 and Example 2

Once you are looking at one picture (an example from UCMP), you can get up to 3 sizes:

128x192
512x768
256x384 (doesn't exist for this example)

by forming the right URL.

More useful info:

Schema for CalPhotos
CalPhotos Custom Query form
Localities