August 2000 - Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

Re: [Koha] Introduction (fwd)
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Cheers John, Our hope is that another library who are more standards focused, and use MARC and Z3950 will pick those up as their contribution to the project - either getting us to write it, or having their own people do it. Those things weren't *most* important to Horowhenua Library, so they aren't in these first releases. We at Katipo are always going to be most focused on those libraries that have commissioned changes and new modules, but we will gladly undertake new commisions, and help/colaborate with other projects. There are other MARC projects and I think Z3950 project in the open source library community, and hooking in with them would be fantastic from our point of view. Seriously we are unlikely to take over the world - certainly the american market is pretty daunting, but there are lots of other libraries just like ours we're sure who have to pay for MARC and end up throwing most of it away anyway, who have time but not $$, or who want more control over their own destiny. > i hope too that koha takes over the world. but it's ultimately going to > come down to two factors in my mind: stability and standards. We are very conscious of stability - and running over crappy lines on crappy gear is one of the situations we've engineered for. We are rewriting modules that have been giving us trouble, and fully expect to continue to refine the system. We have an expectation of no unplanned server downtime other than from gear failure, no more than "normal" browser flakeyness, and no core dumps on the telnet circ module Standards - well we are lead by our librarians - personnally I wouldn't know a library standard if it hit me on the head, they tell me how the library runs, and we make a system that facilitates that. Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 025 300 825 or +64 04 389 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 7039, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand

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Introduction
by Mark Tearle 30 Aug '00

30 Aug '00

Hi Quick Introduction, my name is Mark Tearle and I've been working on creating a library system to replace an aging hypercard stack that the University Science Fiction Association [1] at The University of Western Australia uses to keep track of it's library. I got some distance last year in producing a system that had the same basic design as Koha but that project failed due to changing python libraries and lack of time. I'd like to contribute to a Koha as it has firstly shipped and shows a bit more promise than my efforts. Yours Mark [1] http://www.unisfa.gu.uwa.edu.au/ -- Mark Tearle - mark(a)tearle.com Stone: Let's stick to established procedures. -- The Andromeda Leavitt: Establishment gonna fall down and go boom. Strain (1971)

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Re: [Koha] (Fwd) download of koha
by Ron Wickersham 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

hi john, if you go to the page with downloads: http://www.koha.org/download (no "s" on the end) you can read the text pages by clicking on them. the tarred files can be downloaded (in Netscape) by placing the cursor over the link, and clicking with the right button and selecting "Save line as" which will bring up a dialog box letting you specify where the compressed tar file should be placed. -ron On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Rosalie Blake wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:01:10 +1200 > From: Rosalie Blake <rosalie(a)levin.library.org.nz> > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > Subject: [Koha] (Fwd) download of koha > > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > Date sent: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:23:13 -0600 > From: john <john(a)colosys.net> > To: rosalie(a)library.org.nz > Subject: download of koha > > hey what you guys are doing is neat. we've been doing some work with > waikato on indexing of newspapers using greenstone--you can look at > what we're attempting at www.colosys.net/pathfinder and click on the > newspaper digitization link. > > discoverd koha today. tried to download but it didn't seem to retreive > a file--just saw the binaries. any help? > > first the america's cup, now two great open source library > projects--must be something in the new zealand air. > > cheers. > > john campbell > director > pathfinder library system > grand junction, colorado > john(a)colosys.net > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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Ziggy release
by Mark Tearle 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

Hi all The following URL is a release of my failed attempt at creating a library system for UniSFA: http://phregia.ucs.uwa.edu.au/~mtearle/ziggy-r1.tar.gz Why am I releasing it? There are a few tidbits in that I want to include into Koha, there's somestuff in there that is useful as a comparison, etc. Of note: 1) some spec documents for the project 2) a port of Business::ISBN to python 3) a Cdk like curses library for Python 4) various fragments of SQL and Python (eg book recommendations based on borrowing) Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mark(a)tearle.com Stone: Let's stick to established procedures. -- The Andromeda Leavitt: Establishment gonna fall down and go boom. Strain (1971)

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Download(s)
by Ron Wickersham 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

nice to see this open source project. we are a small research library in a public astronomical observatory and are looking for such a system. i noticed that the link on the http://www.koha.org page for downoads is wrong. the link http://www.koha.org/downloads gives a 404 error. the correct link is http://www.koha.org/download. -ron Ron Wickersham Valley of the Moon Observatory Association http://vmoa.kenwood.ca.us Robert Ferguson Observatory project http://rfo.org rjw(a)rfo.org

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(Fwd) download of koha
by Rosalie Blake 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:23:13 -0600 From: john <john(a)colosys.net> To: rosalie(a)library.org.nz Subject: download of koha hey what you guys are doing is neat. we've been doing some work with waikato on indexing of newspapers using greenstone--you can look at what we're attempting at www.colosys.net/pathfinder and click on the newspaper digitization link. discoverd koha today. tried to download but it didn't seem to retreive a file--just saw the binaries. any help? first the america's cup, now two great open source library projects--must be something in the new zealand air. cheers. john campbell director pathfinder library system grand junction, colorado john(a)colosys.net ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Fwd: Re: [Koha] Some questions from a newbie
by Simon Blake 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

-- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825

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(Fwd) download of koha
by Rosalie Blake 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:23:13 -0600 From: john <john(a)colosys.net> To: rosalie(a)library.org.nz Subject: download of koha hey what you guys are doing is neat. we've been doing some work with waikato on indexing of newspapers using greenstone--you can look at what we're attempting at www.colosys.net/pathfinder and click on the newspaper digitization link. discoverd koha today. tried to download but it didn't seem to retreive a file--just saw the binaries. any help? first the america's cup, now two great open source library projects--must be something in the new zealand air. cheers. john campbell director pathfinder library system grand junction, colorado john(a)colosys.net ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Intro
by Michael Williams 25 Aug '00

25 Aug '00

Hello, I am Michael Williams, Network Supervisor for Haywood County Schools, located in North Carolina, USA. One of our Media Specialists has pointed me to your site and is very excited about the software. We are currently fighting an old DOS based system, trying to get it to run on a linux server and she thought this might be a solution. Does this support importing MARC records, and has anyone converted to this from an exsisting system. Michael

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Fwd: Re: [Koha] Some questions from a newbie
by Simon Blake 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hi Scott On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:35:54AM -0400, Scott McGillivray said: > First, does Koha support interlibrary loans through z39.50? Or maybe some > other method? I didn't see a way to do it through the web interface, but > maybe it's accessible through the telnet interface? It's probably not (or maybe it is, I dunno :-) immediately obvious but Koha was a Y2K rush job, in order to replace a system, or more strictly a network, that clearly wasn't Y2K compliant. Consequently, anything that wasn't imediately necessary for Levin Library to handle it's own collections was largely ignored. So no, there is no mechanism for Koha to communicate with other systems via any standard protocol, other than possibly ANSI SQL, which is probably a little lower level than we might all like. Having said that, we're keen to see Koha as standards compliant as possible, and so would support addition of both Z39.50 and XML interfaces (or indeed anything else that was deemed worthwhile). However neither are a priority at the moment over basic bug fixing and functionality enhancement. OTOH, if somebody else added z39.50 support, or offered us a bunch of cash to elevate it up the priority list, then you never know what might happen. > Next, it looks to me like everything needed to make Kona run should work on > Linux for the Alpha processor as well as x86. Has anybody tried this? Is > there anything I should look out for? My current automation system runs > under OpenVMS on an AlphaServer and I'd like to keep using this machine. It needs perl, a database engine accessible from perl via DBI, and a webserver. The further you "deviate" from linux&mysql&perl&apache, the more little changes you're likely to need to make to get it going. However, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work on any *nix pretty much out of the box, and with a bit of love it would probably work directly under OpenVMS, or Win32. > I guess that's it. I'd love to hear how this system has worked out for > people...good and bad. As indeed do we :-). Bear in mind that it's a very young system, with the commensurate bug problems and functionality holes. Having said that, there's a fair bit of interest being generated in it, which is neat, since it hasn't been publicised particularly widely yet, and we're dead keen to see it be a roaring success. Cheers Si -- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825

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