Tellico
Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom collections. Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Filters are available to limit the visible entries by definable criteria. Full customization for printing is possible through editing the default XSLT file. It can import CSV, Bibtex, Bibtexml, RIS, MODS, CDDB, and audio file metadata and exports CSV, HTML, Bibtex, Bibtexml, ONIX, and PilotDB. Entries may be imported directly from Amazon.com, imdb.com, any z39.50 bibliographic server, PubMed, or an external script.
| Tags | Information Management Database |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 15 Feb 2009 06:51
Changes: Entry updating was fixed so that it does not combine multiple values. The CueCat decoder was updated to work for both UPC and ISBN searches. The Delicious Library importer was updated to import games and movies. A query bug with z39.50 ISBN searches was fixed. Using images in a local data directory no longer marks every collection as modified. A crash when exporting to a small Alexandria collection was fixed.
- 14 Sep 2008 08:23
Changes: The IMDb searching was updated. Drag-and-drop was improved to match on file extension. Linked images in HTML reports was fixed, and a bug in CSV import with consecutive whitespace was fixed. Board game searching was added from Amazon.com.
- 10 Jul 2008 15:30
Changes: File catalogs properly match on file location. Arxiv ID version numbers are stripped when searching. Drag-and-drop with HTTP URLs was fixed. Copying text from the main window was fixed.
- 26 May 2008 13:05
Changes: Languages and editors were added to the Amazon.com results. IMDb.com results were improved. The PubMed search was fixed to use UTF-8 with all keywords. LCCN validation and multiple LCCN search was added. Importing MODS from RefBase and WIKIndx was improved. Default values are now properly added to all new entries.
- 11 Mar 2008 02:17
Changes: Data sources for discogs.com and Google Scholar were added. The CrosssRef source was updated to grab more metadata. DOI search was added to z39.50 and SRU sources. Loading performance was improved to delay loading linked images. The BoardGameGeek source was updated to grab the cover image. A bug that prevented BibTeX format from working for external scripts was fixed. The HTML export was fixed to correctly link to entries with multiple titles.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: Nice application for home users
> Tellico has a lot of good features but
> lacks a little for any librian. e.g. you
> can only enter numbers for pages, nit
> XIV,123, A1-A3.
Just change the field, then.
> Also I miss a field for illustrations,
> figs. etc and a field for bibliography
> or indecx.
Just add the field then.
> In fact it should all be combined in a
> collation field (which can't be listed
> or filtered).
Just combine the fields then. Though I fail to see why I should prevent the user from listing or filtering that field.
> I also miss a note field. Librarians
> loves notes.
Just add the field then.
> Finally I miss a layout choice of the
> known catalog card.
Not sure what you mean there.
> That's 2 points off :-) Still a nice
> application for home users.
Seems like you missed the field editor in the collection menu.
Nice application for home users
Tellico has a lot of good features but lacks a little for any librian. e.g. you can only enter numbers for pages, nit XIV,123, A1-A3.
Also I miss a field for illustrations, figs. etc and a field for bibliography or indecx.
In fact it should all be combined in a collation field (which can't be listed or filtered).
I also miss a note field. Librarians loves notes.
Finally I miss a layout choice of the known catalog card.
That's 2 points off :-) Still a nice application for home users.
Re: Very Good catalog
> Could the internet serches be
> treated as plugins for the program or
> find another way to manage the search
> sourses. I'm saying this because I'd
> like to add or someone to add other
> sources (for example amazon in other
> languages or other other information
> websites) without changing the source
> code of tellico and recompilling. I'd
> also like to mention the searches to
> imdb ignores the "popular
> results" where ususally the movie
> you are searching is.
>
The popular results for IMDb should work properly in the latest version.
I'm not sure about plugins - that's a bit beyond my knowledge of coding. But if you write any scripts that output the Tellico xml, you can merge that into your collection, such as done with these programs: http://lehvaslaiho.homelinux.org/progs/ (http://lehvaslaiho.homelinux.org/progs/) They don't run from within the user interface, but the command-line.
Very Good catalog
I'd like to thank you for this program. It is the best around. Just a couple of comments. Could the internet serches be treated as plugins for the program or find another way to manage the search sourses. I'm saying this because I'd like to add or someone to add other sources (for example amazon in other languages or other other information websites) without changing the source code of tellico and recompilling. I'd also like to mention the searches to imdb ignores the "popular results" where ususally the movie you are searching is. Thanks again for all the work and congratullations for the results.
mgp
Great App! Help volunteered.
What a wonderful application this is. It's exactly what I've been looking for for yonks but have never been able to find until now.
I noticed there doesn't seem to be a Dutch translation available yet and was wondering if you might need some help with that.
English -> Dutch translator, at your service. Would be glad to help out!
Felix (felix (at) nypels (dot) name)