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RE: [Koha] Newbie question - possible to include dummy 'records' as templates?
by Bigwood, David 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Stephen, A good starting place for constructing templates is the "Typical fields and subfields" files for Books, Videos, and Sound recordings available at the Texas Library Connection. The last 2 are in MARC format so need to be opened with a MARC viewer. They are "dummy records" http://tlcic.esc20.net/editing.html Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood(a)lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Steven F. Baljkas Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 3:52 PM To: Stephen Hedges Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Newbie question - possible to include dummy 'records' as templates? Sunday, April 18, 2004 15:38 CDT Hi, Stephen, et al. Hope the headache's gone/better, Stephen. MARC does that to a lot of people. ;-) Thanks to Dave for the list as well. Having been trained as a library tech I think of the GMD and SMD of materials and the categories of materials (which is a fine term by me) are 'just' the chapters of AACR2R. Sorry for confusing that with the item type definitions you meant, Stephen. I understand more fully what you mean now. What I was thinking was largely based on my experience with TKM where what they call templates are essentially just records that are almost impossible to delete and deliberately and usefully difficult to modify accidentally. I am not sure what Ernesto would like, and I shan't try to speak for him. However, for many cataloguing workers, exactly how the template for a record works probably doesn't matter. What does matter is that it have/indicate the required fields AND that, in as many cases as possible, predetermined information be there complete at the start. So, for example, if you were cataloguing kit materials (fairly common in many schools), you'll probably have at least 1 007 tag as well as the standard 008 tag. If your school regularly had kit items with a CD-ROM, you would set the value in 007 to whatever we are calling electronic resources today. ;-) The 008 might be set by default for book material, with defaults for illustrative matter, audience, indexing, language, etc. For all templates, you would want to have the 245 $h with the GMD pre-entered. Other fields that were more or less specific to various formats would be entered, e.g. 856 tag for live web links to continuing resources like web pages. Any standardised notes for specific materials would be part of the template, too, e.g. 538 tags with system information for electronic resources. Ideally, you would probably won't to allow for templates to be editable according to the individual library's preferences and needs, although a starting set based on the clear standard of the GMDs would not be a bad place to start. I guess what I was thinking was that you could have dummy records identified as Template-Text, Template-Videorecording, etc., which instead of having a phrase like 'put something here' as you suggested, they would have the various fields in various tags completed with information or filled with a place marker code to remind the cataloguer to make sure data was entered. What gets displayed is, ultimately, incredibly important, but unless I am really misunderstanding Koha and ILS in general, that is actually at the bridge between the cataloguing and OPAC diplay functions. For cataloguing, you want to have the different templates to simplify, streamline and standardise workflow. How that gets displayed for staff and patrons (which can be differently, BTW), is another stage. Anyway, MJR asked someone to make a note of Ernesto's request as a bug (have to admit: I hate that term, as this isn't something wrong with Koha, just another feature it would be nice to have one day) so at least the programmers will be able to puzzle out what needs to be done to get what you wanted, Ernesto. The programmers are pretty responsive to expressed needs, so I guess the only other thing would be for people who agree with Ernesto that this would constitute a good feature to sound off. Squeaky wheels ... Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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RE: [Koha] Newbie question - possible to include dummy 'records' as templates?
by Bigwood, David 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Stephen, There are 2 official lists, one for the UK and another for the US, Australia and Canada. They are found at 1.1C1 in AACR. The US list is on-line at http://www.roundrockisd.org/mediacenter/handbook/Cataloging-GMD_list.doc but that is not official. Note that the terms "large print" "tactile" or "braille" can be added to the end of most terms in the list. [cartographic material (large print)] for example. The term "text" is rarely used, most records are considered text unless another GMD is present. Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood(a)lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging News: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Stephen Hedges Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:10 AM To: Steven F. Baljkas Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Newbie question - possible to include dummy 'records' as templates? .... I don't find a handy list of authorized GMD's (is there one?), but the MARC21 discussion on tag 008 (http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbd008s.html) mentions seven categories of materials: Books, Computer files, Maps, Music, Continuing resources, Visual materials and Mixed materials. .... Stephen

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FAQ and Docs.
by Nicholas S. Rosasco 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?action=edit&page=QuestionAndA nswer Is open for business. Please add FAQ questions and answers (as in, help us hunt useful info in the posts to the mail list). For helping, we give you a nod in the official Koha thank-yous... As well as the asker and answerer of the question, so please add/preserve that info from the posts you snag. Developers: I'll be pestering you eventually for "quality control" assistance on this. Nick ...all about lots of eyes helping with documentation.

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uninstalling
by Roger Horne 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

I installed Koha some time ago but gave up. I now want to try again. I tried updating to v2.0.0 but the updater program threw up error messages. That doesn't worry me since I have no data stored in the existing version. But now if I try to run installer.pl perhaps unsurprisingly I get a message about Koha already being installed. So how do I uninstall Koha so that I can start again. ie what files/directories do I need to delete? And do I need to delete the existing files etc from Mysql? Roger -- Roger Horne, 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB http://hrothgar.co.uk/

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Koha 2.0
by Bernadette Cassidy 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Hi everyone, We've recently upgraded to 2.0 and have experienced difficulty with the Acquisitions module and Catalogue maintenance, i.e we're not able to add items, update & modify biblios etc, I was wondering if other libraries had experienced similar difficulties and have possible solutions/answers etc. Many thanks, Bernadette ___________________________________________ Bernadette Cassidy Library & Learning Coordinator Allan Bean Centre for Research and Learning in Rehabilitation Private Bag 4708 Burwood Hospital Christchurch New Zealand Tel: (03) 383 9492 Fax: (03) 383 7500

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z39.50
by Lee Griffin 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Hi All, My name is Lee Griffin. I'm not in any way a librarian, but just installed Koha for a school. Everything seems to be working fine except the z39.50 search. I see that the library of congress server is listed. A window pops up saying "Still ?? request to go" Any suggestions as to why this is not working? Thanks, Lee Griffin

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Koha v2
by Wojciech Zatorski 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Hello I'm planning to introduce a library system on our univ Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Technical University of Szczecin (http://www.wi.ps.pl) and by chance i found Koha;) I have some simply questions, where i found manual for recalcitrant person?;) Somebody tried 'fun' with transfer MARC21 from Aleph to Koha? Thx for answer:) -- -- <wojciech(a)zatorski.net> Happy Amiga & Linux User tel. +48 693-364-911; GG: 1500861; http://www.Wiesci.Net Script Engineer -/AmigaE,PHP, SQL, JS,CGI (Perl, C)/-

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search for new librarysoftware for SCK-CEN
by lmertens＠vub.ac.be 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Hi, I'm Liesbet Mertens student information & library science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Currently I'm investigating library software, this is for the company SCK-CEN (www.sckcen.be) For that purpose I have a extensive list of questions.Although there's a extensive list of questions, the answers can be rather short. The questions are made up in a way that they represent all the possibilities of library software. If you can't give an answer on everything it doesn't matter. A part is already useful. The questions are rather technical, and it is impossible for me to download all the interesting library software. I would be eternaly grateful if someone could help me with my investigation. Thanks in advance Liesbet Mertens

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trouble running rebuildnonmarc.pl
by Kim Scannell 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

I completed my Koha-MARC mapping and other parameters. I clicked the MARC Test on the Parameters page and got an OK, all is well. I tried to run the rebuildnonmarc.pl script but it "failed at line 34." My wonderful Unix-geek partner says perhaps the command line flags are not parsing correctly. I'd appreciate your advice. I have 2.0.0 installed. Thanks much! -- Kim Scannell

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translation
by Philip Sturman 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi, I'm considering making a Swedish translation of Koha, to learn more about the system and contribute something back to the community. Have you got any advice regarding translation? Where should I start? Ph.S

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