About Infopump
There are two things behind the creation of Infopump, the thought directly above and an almost obsessively compiled spreadsheet of cyberpunk media. Shadowlink, from Neon Dystopia and the L0WL1F3 Podcast, created something amazing. It's a gigantic Google Sheet of cyberpunk related books, movies, games, music, and more. When I first saw it, the librarian in me went wild. Because what I saw wasn't a spreadsheet, I saw a bibliography.
After a couple conversations, I got to work on something that would take that data and display it in an attractive manner, and maybe even make it fun. We needed more than just titles and authors though, especially if this was going to be a useful bibliography. After some attempts to build a cataloguing interface, I had an epiphany while working on some eBook collections for my everyday job. (Hello, I'm Dan. I'm a Systems Librarian, library technologist, and researcher.) It dawned on me that there is already a piece of software that could handle the cataloguing, the metadata, the collection, and all the rest. And it's free, open source, and cross platform. It has an excellent, well designed database powered by SQLite which I could query using PHP and display the results in a web browser.
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I'm adding new features quite frequently because, as a librarian, I want to get Infopump up to a state where I can start focusing more on cataloguing than coding. I'll write more about the project later, but at least you know what's going on now, and what this software is for.
I threw out the original MariaDB database and threw some records into Calibre, using dummy PDFs as books. We're not interested in the eBook files, we want the delicious *data*. And so long as you have an ISBN and/or decent starting data, Calibre can automatically fetch all the other metadata about an item. After cataloguing a few items, I copied the database to my development server and went to work.
Infopump is a free and open source bibliographic display system for people and groups who want to offer a curated collection of media about a topic. While this initial Infopump instance focuses on Shadowlink's cyberpunk collection, it could be used for any collection. All the cataloging is handled by Calibre and the web display is handled by Infopump.
Infopump is still in development, so you may spot some bugs before I do. But I'm adding new features quite frequently because, as a librarian, I want to get Infopump up to a state where I can start focusing more on cataloguing than coding. I'll write more about the project later, but at least you know what's going on now, and what this software is for.
It's for collections, and it's for you.
Thank you from your little free Cyberpunk Librarian, and the L0WL1F3 lads at Neon Dystopia.
Contact: cyberpunklibrarian [at] protonmail [dot] com
Code: GitLab