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SharePoint Content Search and Koha
by Dianna Roberts 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Our company is planning to implement SharePoint at some stage and apparently its Content Search can include external sources as 'Web Parts' e.g. EBSCOHost http://support.ebsco.com/eit/sp.php If you are using SharePoint have you included Koha as a searchable site? Dianna M Roberts | Manager Information Centre | Opus International Consultants Ltd Phone +64 4 471 7250 | Mobile +64 21 225 7614 | Fax +64 4 473 1075 | Email Dianna.Roberts(a)opus.co.nz Level 6, Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand PO Box 12004, Wellington 6144, New Zealand Visit us online: www.opus.co.nz

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Barcode reader match both biblionumber and barcode
by soulemane moumie 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi All ! When I punch the barcode reader to search the catalog it matches both the biblionumber and the barcode. But I want it to only match the barcode. E.g: => I want to search 1111 => Result after barcode punch:Book1: biblionber: 1111 barcode: 2222Book2: biblionber: 1231 barcode: 1111=> Desired result: Book2: biblionber: 1231 barcode: 1111 Question 1: How can I restrict koha to only return to match of the barcode number ? Moumié Soulémane Assistant Programmer, OCP, MCTS, JCP Department of Computer Science Engineering Islamic University of Technology(IUT) Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh. Cellular: +880192-1628880,+8801921628880

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Re: [Koha] Merge records (was add only item info for duplicate records)
by Elaine Bradtke 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:56 AM, soulemane moumie <moumie23(a)yahoo.fr> wrote: > Hi Elaine ! > I must admit that you are a life saver, I have regained the hope to > complete my project. > I just do as you mention and every thing went smoothly. What about "This > is why it may be quicker to combine the records offline before uploading > them". > Doing the work on the records before you upload them may take fewer steps than merging records in Koha. It depends on how many duplicates you have in your collection. In our case there are a lot of duplicates - we sometimes have a dozen copies of the same thing, but they were each given individual records in our old system. They were in a database that allowed me to match up duplicates and combine all the item information and put it into one record without too much trouble. We have location, provenance and collection information for specific items, so these codes had to be linked to the items. Once I had all this in order, our technical person wrote some code that took our database fields and added MARC tagging. What you do depends on what software you use, and how much item information you have. If it is only a few duplicates, then you may find it easier to do it in Koha after they are uploaded. > How can I achieve this offline operation ? > I am very much grateful for your support in my eager desire to explore > koha. > Thanks. > > > > *Moumi*é* Soul*é*mane > Assistant Programmer, OCP, MCTS, JCP > Department of Computer Science Engineering > Islamic University of Technology(IUT) > Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh. > Cellular: +880192-1628880,+8801921628880* > > > --- En date de : *Jeu 17.1.13, Elaine Bradtke <eb(a)efdss.org>* a écrit : > > > De: Elaine Bradtke <eb(a)efdss.org> > Objet: Re: [Koha] Merge records (was add only item info for duplicate > records) > À: "soulemane moumie" <moumie23(a)yahoo.fr> > Cc: "koha" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Date: Jeudi 17 janvier 2013, 19h47 > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:31 AM, soulemane moumie <moumie23(a)yahoo.fr<http://mc/compose?to=moumie23@yahoo.fr> > > wrote: > > Hi Elaine! > Thanks for taking your precious time to answer my questions. > Please what you meant by "Once in Koha you can merge biblios, to get all > the items into one record, ". Are saying that there is an option in koha > for merging identical record ? > Or doing it manually ? > I really appreciate your help. I am new to koha and I am going to > implement/customize it for our library. > > > Yes, you can merge records in Koha. This combines the information > (including item records) into one biblio. To do this: > Search for the title. > Select the items you wish to merge and save them to a list. > Go to the list and again select the titles you wish to merge > Click on the button (at the bottom of the list ) "Merge selected records" > You will be asked to choose a reference record - think of this as the base > record into which any other information will be added (so if one record is > more complete than the other, choose that one). > Click the "Next" button > The merging records are displayed under tabs on the left with the > reference record on top and the final version on the right under > Destination record. > Look at the other tabs and compare them with the destination record, > click on any fields you wish to add to the destination record. > When you have finished adding fields to the destination record, click > "Merge" > It will automatically move any items from the old records over to the new > record. > > As you can see, it takes some time and effort to do this. This is why it > may be quicker to combine the records offline before uploading them. > > Still, sometimes my colleagues forget to search our catalogue before > adding another record, and when I find the duplicates I merge them. > > I hope this helps > Elaine > > > Regards. > > > > > *Moumi*é* Soul*é*mane > Assistant Programmer, OCP, MCTS, JCP > Department of Computer Science Engineering > Islamic University of Technology(IUT) > Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh. > Cellular: +880192-1628880,+8801921628880* > > > --- En date de : *Mer 16.1.13, Elaine Bradtke <eb(a)efdss.org<http://mc/compose?to=eb@efdss.org> > >* a écrit : > > > De: Elaine Bradtke <eb(a)efdss.org <http://mc/compose?to=eb@efdss.org>> > Objet: Re: [Koha] add only item info for duplicate records > À: "soulemane moumie" <moumie23(a)yahoo.fr<http://mc/compose?to=moumie23@yahoo.fr> > > > Date: Mercredi 16 janvier 2013, 22h36 > > > We moved all the item info to a single book record before importing. Our > old database allows us to run a de-duplication script and then I manually > combined the duplicate records. Yes, it's a pain. Once in Koha you can > merge biblios, to get all the items into one record, but I wouldn't want to > do this for a large number of things. > It would be nice if there were an easier way, I just don't know what it is. > Elaine > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:45 AM, soulemane moumie <moumie23(a)yahoo.fr<http://mc/compose?to=moumie23@yahoo.fr> > > wrote: > > Hi! > I want to import my newly created marc file into koha. > Everything is imported successfully in the koha empty database and > re-indexed. > The problem is that I have duplicated titles. > e.g: > book1: introduction to koha nber of item: 1 > book2: introduction to koha nber of item: 1 > book3: introduction to koha nber of item: 1 > > but I want to have : > book: introduction to koha nber of item: 3 > > If I set a matching rule, the import stalls after staging. > > Matching rule: > Matching rule code : TITLE > Description: 245$a > Match threshold: 100 > > Match point: > Search index: Title > Score: 101 > > Matching component: > Tag: 245 > subfields: a > offset: 0 > length: 0 > Normalization rule: TITLE > > Question: > Is it possible to do this in koha ? > for each duplicate marc record : > Koha does not add it but instead add the item info under existing record > increase the number of item under the duplicate record. > Should I add only record info and add items info manually ? But with more > than 40 000 books it will be a nightmare > Thanks for helping ! > > > > > > > Moumié Soulémane > Assistant Programmer, OCP, MCTS, JCP > Department of Computer Science Engineering > Islamic University of Technology(IUT) > Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh. > Cellular: +880192-1628880,+8801921628880 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <http://mc/compose?to=Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > -- > Elaine Bradtke > Data Wrangler > VWML > English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org > Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY > Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance > and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, > send an e-mail first. 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I work off site) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Registered Company No. 297142 > Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" > --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) > > -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. 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About word-phrase-utf.chr file
by Quoc Uy 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I'm trying to search for my language, using English alphabet. For example, when i type "a", Koha can search for "â, ă, á, ạ, ả".... (these are some alphabet in my language) I'm now watching this file: /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/word-phrase-utf.chr I tried to edit this file, add some word to map "some alphabet in my language" "some english alphabet" but it didn't work. Am i doing right thing? And can someone show me how to edit this file? I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. Thanks so much!

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Changing OPAC Item Status
by Joel Harbottle 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi All, Interesting question... I would like to change the wording of "Available" to "On Shelf" on the Item Status in the Holdings Display area in both the OPAC and Staff Client. Does anyone know how to do this easily? Best Regards, Joel HarbottleE: joel.harbottle(a)outlook.com

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Re: [Koha] A general query about UI customization
by Paul 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

At 07:15 AM 1/21/2013 +1300, Chris Cormack and Indranil Das Gupta wrote: a) hand edit the template file b) use a bit of jquery in either intranetuserjs / opacuserjs for on-the-fly replacement c) use the translation tools to create a local .po file, edit that and generate a new set of templates. >b) Is almost always the best option, Next best is c). The last resort, if >you can do nothing else is a). >What usually happens is if people do a few a) they then decide >upgrading is hard, and don't upgrade for things like bug or security >releases and make a rod for their own backs. Very good, logical advice; however, very respectfully, there is perhaps a different perspective. Editing a template is quick, simple and easily reversible; writing javascript might be more daunting, and writing a .po, etc., is more time consuming. Keeping notes is paramount, e.g. $ sudo vi /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/prog/en/lib/jquery/plugins/ui.tabs.css edit line 68 to transparent background It is the "upgrade" situation that poses the problems. When I upgraded from 3.6 to 3.8, I had a list of 11 "customizations" to carry out (now 23 and growing) -- ranging from simple replacement of images to more obscure Perl mods, but the prior preparation of notes made things relatively easy. The question is: how often do Koha users upgrade their *production* instance of Koha? It probably comes down to budgets, available time of IT staff, and policy. Does policy encourage "adding bells and whistles" or tend to stick to "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." [Security upgrades are definitely a thing to be looked into, despite it being quite time consuming to go through each set of release notes looking for show stoppers.] It would be interesting and informative if other participants in this list could briefly describe their "production upgrade policy." Best regards, Paul --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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(no subject)
by Mohamed zalabany 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

hi all i want to know if i have libraries consortium and i need every library see her records only from opac or stuff is their any configuration available from administration to do that or the data will be searchable for all branches the second could we change the opac interface for every library in the consortium when the user of this library enter with his user name and password Mohamed El Zalabany Integrated library systems consultant LibroTech for library systems and information technology http://www.librotech.net mh_zalabany(a)hotmail.com Mobile: 0111291444

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KOHA Migration of Public Libraries in Turkey Project
by Mustafa Arıcı 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Hi dear KOHA community, We would like to say a few words about the great KOHA migration project that is going on in Turkey lately. This project initiated by "Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism" and "Near East University". The project itself aims to migrate all the Public Libraries that are operating under authority of Ministry of Culture and Tourism. And this makes up to total 1112 branches, with more than 800.000 users total and approx. 8.000.000 bibliographic records currently. Also it's anticipated that this movement will bring great attraction from other libraries located around the country and also from some other organisations as well. As Near East University, Innovation and IT Center we are dealing with the technical aspects of the project. Also I would like to point out that Near East University Grand Library has been actively using a modified version of KOHA since 2005 and made some software contributions to KOHA project from time to time. We are happy to announce this to the community. Regards. -- Mustafa Arici Software Developer Innovation and IT Center - Near East University ### PGP-Key ID: BCACEBEB @ pgp.mit.edu ###

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Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Call for news for the January newsletter
by Paul 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

At 12:34 PM 1/11/2013 -0800, Daniel Grobani wrote: >Dear Koha kommunitarians, > >I'm harvesting news for this month's newsletter. Please send me by the >20th anything you think your fellow community members might like to know about. Based on our news release, 11 January 2013 <http://navalmarinearchive.com/news/opac_jan2013.html>: Our Library "Online Public Access Catalogue" or OPAC ---------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce that our library catalogue is now online at <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com>. It currently contains over 20,000 books - all that remains to be done is to catalogue the remaining 15,000 books, 250,000 magazines and journals, 2,000 charts, several hundred paintings and engravings, and all the other documents, files and manuscripts at "The Victory." Importantly, we are now formally accepted as an international library (CaOPIACS) and have access to major libraries for automatic retrieval [Z39.50] of their bibliographic records. Reciprocal use of our records by other libraries is planned in the near future. This online library project has been achieved by an investment of about 1,400 hours of volunteer time into designing and implementing the system (including limited import of some of our spreadsheets), and continues with between 20 and 40 volunteer hours per week in cataloguing. In-house testing continues to make progress on the very complex matters surrounding efficient cataloguing of our periodicals; we tentatively plan on putting these fully on-line by mid-2013, but in the meanwhile all work stations in the library have access to this work-in-progress. Technically, it involves a new 64-bit web server on our premises with enhanced internet connectivity, running a Linux operating system. This has allowed us to develop a customized version of the Koha open-source library system. Naval Marine Archive : The Canadian Collection "The Victory", 205, Main Street, Picton, Ontario, K0K 2T0, Canada Telephone: 1 613 476 1177 http://navalmarinearchive.com and http://ultramarine.ca Canadian Charitable Organization 88721 9921 RR0001 --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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A general query about UI customization
by Indranil Das Gupta 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Hi, No real problem, rather just want people's opinion on this. For OPAC or Staff Client text string UI artifacts - e.g, labels, what do you prefer to do? a) hand edit the template file or b) use a bit of jquery in either intranetuserjs / opacuserjs for on-the-fly replacement My personal preference is to use approach "b" thanks in advance -indra -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org

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