- Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

Re: [Koha] Using Koha
by Steven F.Baljkas 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Sunday, July 30, 2006 20:20 CDT Hi, Trupti, In answer to your questions ... > Are the tags below 010 required? ... If you are talking about MARC21 (formerly USMARC, CANMARC, etc., harmonized: note that UKMARC will be 'joined' with this, too; UNIMARC, chiefly continental European, is markedly different, clearly distinguishable by where Title and Statement of Responsibility are coded, 200, vs. 245 in MARC21 and its precedents/parallels), the following fields below 010 are required according to MARC development and usage standards: the Leader (what you have referred to as 000), and the 008 (and sometimes 006 and 007, depending on the exact nature of the record). > ... If so does Koha recognize it? Koha previously could be made to recognise these fields (though not included with Koha as distributed) but a newer version of the MARC framework is now apparently downloadable and is able to process the data. Like many ILS, however, it does not appear that Koha actually does anything with the data at present (many ILS don't make full use of all the data that a MARC record encodes). That may change in future versions. > Also since we have not used Marc, we would like to know how do we enter > data. For example, should the title be entered as > > 245 10 $a Computer Science OR > Computer Science. How data should be entered is up to you when you do things locally. MARC is actually quite flexible. However other accompanying standards are much more rigid. If you hope to make use of shared data (i.e. download records via Z39.50 or otherwise), you have to keep those standards in mind unless you want to be making a lot of 'corrections' to what you download to match your local practices. For example, most North American libraries would use MARC standards to code information for their ILS in conjunction with the standards prescribed in (some version of) the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd edition (AACR2R), which include standards for capitalization and punctuation from the International Standard for Bibliographic Description (General) or ISBD(G). Taking your example from above, then, a work with the title _Computer Science_ would be encoded as follows according to those standards: 245 10 $a Computer science or 245 10 $a Computer science. *** You could also encode it as 245 10 $a Computer science. -- if you really wanted to follow the full traditional punctuation (which most libraries and ILS don't). *** I would include the period at the end just for clarity. Note the punctuation prescribed by common standards. The standards that you are using, incidentally, are encoded in the Leader (sometimes called the 000). If you would like some example records, please feel free to send me some data (a small dataset or list) off listserv and I'll do what I can to help you out. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "Truptee Shah" <truptee.shah(a)gmail.com> Date: 2006/07/28 Fri AM 06:07:33 CDT To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Using Koha We have installed KOha and are trying to use it for our library. We have some problems using MARC tags. We seek your help for the same. Are the tags below 010 required? If so does Koha recognize it? Also since we have not used Marc, we would like to know how do we enter data. For example, should the title be entered as 245 10 $a Computer Science OR Computer Science. Do we need to enter anything in the tag 000 or is it machine generated. --Trupti (koha user from India)

2 1

Details / Translation
by Demian Moura 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi! I´m Demian and I work in a government offce in Brazil and I´m responsible for their ILS. The have their own system but it´s old and it´s starting to get slow and doesn´t offer stability. We are making a small research to find out which free systems are out there and if it´s easy or not to migrate from the old system. I Basicaly have two options. Gnuteca that is a open software solution developed here in Brazil and Koha. These systems are pretty well developed and similar in their capacity, but I feel koha has some more sophisticated features. The only problem is that it still hasn´t got a Portuguese translation(at least I didn´t find any documentation regarding this), but that´s not trouble as I can easily translate it´s interface and maybe some other documentation if necessary. My question is if koha supports multiple libraries and if anyone know about translations. Thanks! Demian

1 0

Please Read Body
by Laurie Selwyn 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Here's the million dollar question: If the MARC folders appear on our WIN2000 server, why are the BIBLIO FRAMEWORK and the LINKS KOHA-MARC DB completely empty? And what do we do to fix it? Has anyone else run into this problem? Also, what is the "TEST" database? Currently, the server indicates we have three databases associated with KOHA: Blank 223 (which is where we can see the "marc_" files), SQL, and TEST. I have spent two weeks trying to find my MARC21 database "choices" in both the Biblio Framework and the LinksKoha-MARC DB but both are completely blank. My IT person can see the various MARC folders (marc_blbl-subfield, marc_breeding, marc_subfield_structure, marc_subfield_table, etc.) on the server within a window titled "WinMySQLadmin 1.4 so it appears that everything has been downloaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Laurie Selwyn Law Librarian Grayson County Law Library 100 W. Houston St., Suite 27 Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 813-4320 Fax (903) 892-4085 selwynl(a)co.grayson.tx.us DISCLAIMER: This email contains information that may be legally privileged and confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above.If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient,you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please notify the sender by return email and then delete it immediately from your system. Please note that this is not a substitute for professional legal advice.

3 2

Install problem - SQL errors...
by Tomasz Holdowanski 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hello, I`ve been trying to install Koha 2.2.4 for several days. I succeeded without big problems with installing it with Mysql 4.0.20, however it appeared that I need 5.0.21 because of UTF-8 and polish charset support. I reinstalled Linux (Arch)(screwed up a few things and wanted a clean install) and put Mysql 5.0.21 in with all Perl things and so on. Mysql server seems to work fine, phpMyAdmin connects to it without problems, mysqladmin from command line also does. Koha installs without problems until database creation - then it stops and displays this message: ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 772: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'return char(4) default NULL, renewals tinyint(4) default NULL, timestamp tim' at line 9 followed with a whole bunch of DBD::mysql errors. What did I do wrong? Does anyone have any idea how to fix that? Please help. Regards, T. Holdowanski. mailto:mordazy@friko2.onet.pl ZAWSZE JEST JESZCZE NADZIEJA NA OGOLNOSWIATOWY KATAKLIZM.

2 2

How to add Authority
by young librarian 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Dear Friends Hi I am using Koha window version. Server information is as follows: Koha version2.2.4 OS version Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] Perl version5.008007 MySQL versionmysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.26, for Win32 (ia32) Apache version I am facing problem with the authorities. whenever I tried to add new authority it is not working. For Example When I am indexing a book, and place of publication of that book is, say London. So Is it possible to add london or anything which i need again and again during the indexing or somewhere else. Sothat Once I add the term in the system and can use it every where, whenever need arises. Thanx in advance Aquil --------------------------------- See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out.

1 0

ldap authentication
by Mohamed Imran K R 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

hi we are an engineering institution and we want to migrate to koha. we have tested out 2.2.5 on FC3. ( mysql ver 3.23.58 ) we have started cataloging the books through z39.50 server and now we want to authenticate our the users for ldap. i followed the steps mentioned and i made the changes as reflected below ################################################## # LDAP connexion parameters my $ldapserver = '192.168.1.253'; # Infos to do an anonymous bind my $ldapinfos = 'uid=deepofix,ou=people,dc=cahcet,dc=in'; my $name = "uid=deepofix,ou=people,dc=cahcet,dc=in"; my $db = Net::LDAP->new( $ldapserver ); the error that i get is as follows Mon Jul 31 09:49:51 2006] [error] [client 192.168.1.2] Premature end of script headers: mainpage.pl [Mon Jul 31 09:54:34 2006] [error] [client 192.168.1.2] Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::LDAP" (perhaps you forgot to load "Net::LDAP"?) at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Auth.pm line 510. [Mon Jul 31 09:54:34 2006] [error] [client 192.168.1.2] Premature end of script headers: mainpage.pl kindly do help me out. i tried # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::LDAP' and i ound that the module was uptodate. -- Regards Mohamed Imran K R

2 1

Re: [Koha] Marc-import from text-file
by Steven F.Baljkas 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Sunday, July 30, 2006 20:08 CDT Hi, Kim, I don't remember ever seeing that Koha could import MARC-like data (MARC-post?) from a text file per se, but since you have MARC data in a delimited text file format, you can use a free tool like ****MARCEdit****, available gratis from the Library of Congress MARC Specialized Tools page off of its MARC Records, Systems and Tools section at URL <http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html> to convert the data into true MARC format, which Koha definitely can handle. The built-in instructions are pretty clear (for example, I don't believe you could use the sign that you have for text delimiting, but that can be fixed easily). However, if that is not convenient (enough) for you, and if you have the text file handy, I could convert it for you readily. Just send it to me with a note off listserv. Hope this helps. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: Kim Andre Tallerås <KimA.Talleras(a)stud.jbi.hio.no> Date: 2006/07/30 Sun PM 12:03:48 CDT To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Marc-import from text-file Hello. I`m wondering how I, if it`s possible, could import Marc-post directly from a text-file. I have about 1000 Marc-biblios in a text-file seperated with the sign "^". I`ve read most of the guides on the KOHA documentation site without getting any wiser regarding this kind of import-procedure. All the best Kim Tallerås _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ============================================================

1 0

Marc-import from text-file
by Kim Andre Tallerås 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

Hello. I`m wondering how I, if it`s possible, could import Marc-post directly from a text-file. I have about 1000 Marc-biblios in a text-file seperated with the sign "^". I`ve read most of the guides on the KOHA documentation site without getting any wiser regarding this kind of import-procedure. All the best Kim Tallerås

1 0

Marc-import from text-file
by Kim Andre Tallerås 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

Hello, I`m wondering how I could (,if it`s possible,) do Marc-imports from a text-file. I have about 1000 Marc-posts listet in a text-file seperated with the sign ^. I`ve read most of the guides I found on the KOHA documentation-site without getting any wiser regarding this kind of import procedure. All the best Kim Tallerås

1 0

Marc-Structure wrong
by Beda Szukics 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

Hi all I'm setting up KOHA. Doing the MARC-Check I get the result: OK itemnum : the field itemnumber is mapped to a field in tab -1 item fields ALL items fields MUST : be mapped to the same tag, and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab Item tag There is more than 1 MARC tag related to items tab (10) : 952,995, OK itemtypes table filled with at least 1 value OK biblioitems.itemtype defined OK branch table filled with at least 1 value OK homebranch defined OK holdingbranch defined OK biblionumber and biblioitemnumber mapped correctly OK no NULL value in frameworkcode TOTAL You have 2 error(s) in your MARC configuration. Please fix them before using koha What's wrong? -- Beda Szukics www.muri-gries.ch Benediktinerkollegium, Bruenigstr. 177 CH-6060 Sarnen

1 0