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Re: [Koha] Inquiry: Batch download e-books from Springer Databaseto KOHA with Marc-Records
by Susan Mustafa 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi, Does this mean I have to request a MARC records file from Springer themselves?? Is this normal to ask for? Would they know what I am talking about? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Irma Birchall <irma(a)calyx.net.au> wrote: > Hi Susan, > > Welcome to Koha. > > When You receive a MARC records file from Springer, save it on your > desktop so that when you "Import marc records" hit the browse button > and retrieve it from your desktop. > See how you go. You might find the manual helpful too:* > > **http://stats.workbuffer.org/manual_en/*<http://stats.workbuffer.org/manual_en/> > * * > Irma > CALYX > > ------------------------------ > *From:* koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto: > koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz] *On Behalf Of *Susan Mustafa > *Sent:* Sunday, 7 March 2010 8:22 PM > *To:* Indranil Das Gupta > *Cc:* koha koha > *Subject:* Re: [Koha] Inquiry: Batch download e-books from Springer > Databaseto KOHA with Marc-Records > > Do I need a marc record file? I see "Import marc records", but it asks me > for a file. > > If I require a MARC file, do I need to contact Springer to give me this > file? OR is there another way? > > Thank you, > > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Susan Mustafa <susan.mustafa(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Indranil, >> >> How do you import Marc21 records from the Springer DBs?? I am really >> unsure of how to connect Koha + Springer together and how to do "batch >> download"? >> >> Please walk me through the steps or direct me to an article explaining >> this? >> >> Do I need a z39.50 server or how?? :) >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi Susan, >>> >>> 2010/3/7 Susan Mustafa <susan.mustafa(a)gmail.com>: >>> >>> [snipped] >>> >>> > At the moment, our Institute is registered with Springer, for 14k or >>> 15k of >>> > online e-books. My library director has requested me to look into >>> whether >>> > Koha can do automatic batch downloading of all those e-books into our >>> KOHA >>> > system, with "MARC Records" created for them. >>> >>> One of my clients' - West Bengal University of Technology, are >>> subscribed to Springer ebooks for copyright years 2005, 2006 and 2007, >>> approx 13k of ebooks. Never faced any problem with importing the >>> Springer Marc21 records from their site into my client's Koha >>> installation. The DOI links in the Springer Marc file are preserved as >>> the URI sub-tag `u` of 956 of each individual ebook record. >>> >>> So an user browsing the OPAC can click the link and will be taken to >>> the content on Springer site (my client uses campus IP based >>> authentication). >>> >>> > Now honestly, I am new to Koha, so I have no idea if this is feasible >>> or >>> > not, that's why I am asking you guys :) >>> >>> From my experience, it just works, however YMMV >>> >>> hth :) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> To get a free editor supporting ODF, please visit >>> http://www.openoffice.org/ >>> >> >> >

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Re: [Koha] Inquiry: Batch download e-books from Springer Database to KOHA with Marc-Records
by Susan Mustafa 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi Indranil, How do you import Marc21 records from the Springer DBs?? I am really unsure of how to connect Koha + Springer together and how to do "batch download"? Please walk me through the steps or direct me to an article explaining this? Do I need a z39.50 server or how?? :) Thank you, On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Susan, > > 2010/3/7 Susan Mustafa <susan.mustafa(a)gmail.com>: > > [snipped] > > > At the moment, our Institute is registered with Springer, for 14k or 15k > of > > online e-books. My library director has requested me to look into > whether > > Koha can do automatic batch downloading of all those e-books into our > KOHA > > system, with "MARC Records" created for them. > > One of my clients' - West Bengal University of Technology, are > subscribed to Springer ebooks for copyright years 2005, 2006 and 2007, > approx 13k of ebooks. Never faced any problem with importing the > Springer Marc21 records from their site into my client's Koha > installation. The DOI links in the Springer Marc file are preserved as > the URI sub-tag `u` of 956 of each individual ebook record. > > So an user browsing the OPAC can click the link and will be taken to > the content on Springer site (my client uses campus IP based > authentication). > > > Now honestly, I am new to Koha, so I have no idea if this is feasible or > > not, that's why I am asking you guys :) > > From my experience, it just works, however YMMV > > hth :) > > > -- > 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. > > To get a free editor supporting ODF, please visit > http://www.openoffice.org/ >

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Inquiry: Batch download e-books from Springer Database to KOHA with Marc-Records
by Susan Mustafa 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi All, I hope someone may have useful information on whether this task is feasible and whether it requires development or not. To explain: At the moment, our Institute is registered with Springer, for 14k or 15k of online e-books. My library director has requested me to look into whether Koha can do automatic batch downloading of all those e-books into our KOHA system, with "MARC Records" created for them. Now honestly, I am new to Koha, so I have no idea if this is feasible or not, that's why I am asking you guys :) Hopefully someone knows of a simple solution to this. Please do tell me if it is built-in functionality of Koha, or I may need to develop an extension from scratch for this. Looking forward to a reply :) Regards,

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Authority search in SEE FROM TRACING (Field 4XX)
by Beda Szukics 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi all I try to use authority records. Searching the controlled terms (in 1XX) works fine. (I had to change "Heading-Main" into "Heading" in C4/AuthoritiesMarc.pm to enable it) But I'm not able to search for the "SEE" references (Fields 4XX). My example: The record with: 100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME a Personal name Davidov, Carol Julevic d Dates associated wit 1838-1889 400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME a Personal name Dawidow, Karl Juljewitsch is found if I search with "Davidov", "Carol" or "Julevic" but not with "Dawidow" and so on. How can I make these terms searchable? Greetings Beda BTW: Chronological Terms can't be searched at all.

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Configuring Koha to expose Z39.50/SRU services
by Magnus Enger 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi, all! According to the documentation at http://koha.org/documentation/faq/could-someone-tell-me-the-exact-steps-i-n… configuring Koha/Zebra to expose Z39.50/SRU services should be as simple as changing  to <listen id="publicserver" >tcp:@:9999</listen> in koha-conf.xml. In my experience it has not been that simple. Just doing the above gives a 404 not found message from Zebra. What I have found to work is to copy the server- and serverinfo-elements for biblioserver, and replacing biblioserver with publicserver, so I get both <server id="biblioserver" listenref="biblioserver"> <directory>/var/lib/koha/zebradb/biblios</directory> <config>/etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios.cfg</config> <cql2rpn>/etc/koha/zebradb/pqf.properties</cql2rpn>    <retrievalinfo> ... </retrievalinfo> <xi:include href="/etc/koha/zebradb/explain-biblios.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback> <explain xmlns="http://explain.z3950.org/dtd/2.0/"> <serverInfo> <host>localhost</host> <port>9998</port> <database>biblios</database> </serverInfo> </explain> </xi:fallback> </xi:include> </server> <serverinfo id="biblioserver"> <ccl2rpn>/etc/koha/zebradb/ccl.properties</ccl2rpn> <user>****</user> <password>****</password> </serverinfo> and <server id="publicserver" listenref="publicserver"> <directory>/var/lib/koha/zebradb/biblios</directory> <config>/etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios.cfg</config> <cql2rpn>/etc/koha/zebradb/pqf.properties</cql2rpn>    <retrievalinfo> ... </retrievalinfo> <xi:include href="/etc/koha/zebradb/explain-biblios.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <xi:fallback> <explain xmlns="http://explain.z3950.org/dtd/2.0/"> <serverInfo> <host>localhost</host> <port>9998</port> <database>biblios</database> </serverInfo> </explain> </xi:fallback> </xi:include> </server> <serverinfo id="publicserver"> <ccl2rpn>/etc/koha/zebradb/ccl.properties</ccl2rpn> <user>****</user> <password>****</password> </serverinfo> (Here are the same examples with a bit of formatting, if the above fails: http://wiki.biblab.no/index.php/Hvordan_aktivisere_Z39.50_og_SRU_i_Koha) Has anyone else had the same experience, or found some other workaround? Regards, Magnus libriotech.no

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Change Intranet Directory
by stefan 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi all is there a way to change Kohas Intranetdirectory to mysite.com/cat/intra/ ? Thanks, Stefan

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Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 53, Issue 19
by Stacy Pober 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

>>> Personally, I think it should be irrelevant to those seeking a vendor >>> too. ?If a vendor needs to should that loudly about what contracts >>> they're signing, rather than reporting afterwards in journal articles >>> and so on, then something seems a bit wrong to me. ?"X signed Y" is >>> not clear news - it might just mean X's sales/negotiators are good. >>> >> yes and no: I think it's important for someone to know that a french >> university has choosen Koha and BibLibre. If you're a university, you >> may find this information usefull. Press releases have a poor signal-to-noise ratio. I think this information is best provided in a table that shows the names of Koha libraries, the version of Koha they are using, and, if they are using a support vendor, which one they are using. This way, the information is provided, but the puffery is not. -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober(a)manhattan.edu

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Bulkmarc import
by thandu venkat narayana 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Dear All, How to use bulkimport.pl in koha 2.2.9 windows. Regards Venkat The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Zebraqueue Daemon: error
by Nouman Soomro 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Venerable All I have following error plz help me in this regard http://pastebin.org/101648

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autobarcode MAX value problem
by Chris Morrison 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

So there was a discussion going on that relates to my problem in May of '09, in which Joe Atzberger of LibLime said that Koha increments barcodes by checking the current MAX and adding one. Short question: how do I manually change the MAX value? We have around 100K records, and for some reason, Koha is auto-incrementing in the 800Ks. Oddly enough, I can't find any items in our catalog in the 800K's, either. Anyway, it's rather annoying to manually change every number, especially when you have multiple catalogers . . . On a development note, why don't we just have Koha increment from a current position, rather than from the highest? If we delete a large group of records, it would be very useful to be able to assign the old barcodes automatically by starting from the beginning of the "hole." That's what we did with our old system, anyway. So is there a way to do this already, and am I just missing it? Or what variable do I need to change to get Koha to increment from the right place? Thanks, Chris Morrison

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