Books

Book Model

Model field reference	cv.models.publications.Book
Authorship set	cv.models.publications.BookAuthorship

The Book model represents an instance of books, including information about different editions of the same book.

Book Views

Book List : cv.views.CVListView

Context object	{{object_list}}
Template	'cv/lists/book_list.html'
URL	'books/'
MIME type	text/html

The book list view produces a page with a list of the author’s books. This may be useful for profiling an authors’ books with, for example, summaries and blurbs. This can be accomplished through the use of custom templates. The default template produces a list of books using the same section formatting as the listing in the book section of the complete CV.

The page renders an instance of the cv.views.CVListView view with the named parameter model_name set to 'book'. The view returns {{object_list}} in the context with four objects on its dot path:

total_books

Integer of total number of books from all three managers:

book_published_list

queryset of all published books (uses the published() method of the PublicationManager)

book_revise_list

queryset of all books in the revision process (uses the revise() method of the PublicationManager)

book_inprep_list

queryset of all books in preparation for submission (uses the inprep() method of the PublicationManager)

The URL can be accessed in templates by using the URL template filter with the named URL section_list and model_name parameter equal to book, i.e.:

{% url section_list model_name='book' %}

Book Detail: cv.views.CVDetailView

Context object	{{book}}
Template	'cv/details/book_detail.html'
URL	'books/<slug:slug>/'
MIME type	text/html

The book detail view produces a page that represents a single book. This could be used to, for example, create a feature page for a published book. The default view includes the title, abstract, edition information, and links to download the citation information in both RIS and BibTeX formats (described below). The page is rendered as an instance of the cv.views.CVDetailView with the named parameters model_name set to 'book' and slug set to the book’s slug attribute. The view returns the context {{book}} that represents the Book instance.

The URL can be accessed using the named URL item_detail with model_name set to 'book' and slug set to the book’s slug attribute, i.e.:

{% url item_detail model_name='book' slug='slug-from-short-title' %}

Book Citation: cv.views.citation_view()

Context object	{{book}}
Templates	'cv/citations/book.ris' 'cv/citations/book.bib'
URL	'books/<slug:slug>/citation/<str:format>/'
MIME types	application/x-research-info-systems or application/x-bibtex

Returns view to allow citation to be downloaded to citation management software.

The <str:format> named parameter should be one of:

'ris'

will create downloadable citation using Reference Manager format specification (see http://endnote.com/sites/rm/files/m/direct_export_ris.pdf).

'bib'

will create downloadable citation using the BibTeX format specification (see http://www.bibtex.org/Format/)

Book Editions

Django-Vitae allows users to link multiple editions of a book with the BookEdition class. This is done through a ForeignKey relationship to the book. The Book model includes the get_editions() method to return all editions associated with the book in reverse chronological order (i.e., newest first).

If an edition has been related to a book, the default templates will use the publication information (publisher, place of publication, ISBN) of the edition instance, not the publication information defined for the book instance.

Custom Methods

The Book class has two custom methods related to editions:

add_edition(dict)

Creates a new BookEdition instance with the referencing the Book instance on which the user calls the method.

• dict: a dictionary containing field/value pairs for BookEdition fields; edition must be one of the dict keys

get_editions()

Convenience function that returns a QuerySet of all the BookEdition objects related to the Book instance