MJ,<div><br></div><div>I may be able to shake loose some funding for this. I'm pretty sure I could help you get an development partner (library) with RFID self-check and ISO 28560 compliant tags.</div><div><br></div><div>
Do you have a more format spec or RFC?</div><div><br></div><div>Lori</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:57 PM, MJ Ray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjr@phonecoop.coop">mjr@phonecoop.coop</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><a href="mailto:ajesh@maxenna.com">ajesh@maxenna.com</a> wrote:<br>
> I have recently installed Koha3.4 on Ubuntu.<br>
</div>[...]<br>
<div class="im">> But what we want to implement is an RFID reader instead of the barcode<br>
> scanner. Each book will have a RFID tag. The patron will pick the books<br>
> from the shelf and bring it and place some books on top of RFID reader<br>
> which will read all the books at once, say for example 4-5 books at once.<br>
><br>
> My doubt is how can I read this information into koha. Any suggestion<br>
> please.<br>
<br>
</div>I have code for this. It works basically like you describe, although<br>
I note that reading tags on electronic kit is a bit of a pain. Even<br>
DVDs will shield some tags, so choose carefully.<br>
<br>
The last release was for 3.0, which is just being end-of-lifed. It<br>
needs updating for 3.4 and the recent ISO standard for RFID tags, but<br>
is already in use by at least one library. I plan to be updating it<br>
for 3.4 and then 3.6 as soon as funding is agreed. It will go quicker<br>
with either help or additional funding. Do you have either?<br>
<br>
More details or a place to subscribe for news:<br>
<a href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2244" target="_blank">http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2244</a><br>
<br>
Hope that helps,<br>
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