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Dave Graber is out of the office.
by Dave Graber/LI/AD/WSC 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

I will be out of the office starting 03/05/2004 and will not return until 03/15/2004.

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Koha Installation Guide and Koha at a Glance
by Joshua Ferraro 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Hi everyone, I've been working on a Koha installation guide which is finally useable--though I have several expansions planned. For now I've limited the scope of the guide to installing Koha on Debian woody kernel 2.4, though eventually I would like to expand that scope. You can find a PDF version of the guide here: http://www.kados.org/LibraryScience/installing_koha_on_debian.pdf If you want other formats (but not very pretty ones) you can find them listed at http://www.kados.org/LibraryScience/installing_koha.html Also listed on that page is my Koha at a Glance guide that I used recently at a Koha workshop hosted by NPL. Hope these documents are useful. Please forward any comments, suggestions, typos, etc. Joshua Ferraro

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Z3950 Queries Failing.....
by Erwin 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Hello, the CS department at my University is trying to set up a library system to catalogue our books, and have had problems getting the z3950 client to get book information from the library of congress. We're using koha version 1.2.3 on a Gentoo Linux machine running MySQL Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.16. The errors we recieve are as the following: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at ./processz3950queue line 276, <KC> line 22. Also getting error "Cannot call method 'option' on undefined value" on a line near 169, but that error has stopped after a few changes we've made. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Charles Erwin Computer Science Department Transylvania University Lexington, KY 40508

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Migrating to Koha document
by Stephen Hedges 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

I've just finished the first draft of some documentation on migrating data from an existing ILS to Koha. You can see it at http://www.skemotah.com/Migrating_to_Koha.html If folks could take some time to look at this, I'd like to know if I've made any errors or omissions. I'm going to be using this document as a guide for a workshop on Koha I'll be doing later this month, which should also give me a chance to collect "user" feedback. The goal is to get the document whipped into shape, then submit it for inclusion in the overall Koha documentation. Thanks! -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Re: [Koha] Re: [Koha-win32] Re: Koha-win32 digest, Vol 1 #66 - 2msgs
by Pat Eyler 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Adalid Ortiz wrote: > Translating the default templates could help me? There's actually a newer and better way to handle translations. Paul and Ambrose can talk to that far better than I can. -pate > > LIC. FELIPE ADALID ORTIZ ANZALDO > Area de Medios Electr�nicos > Biblioteca Loyola > http://www.loyola.tij.uia.mx > UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA TIJUANA > Ave. Centro Universitario 2501 > Playas de Tijuana > Tijuana, B.C., M�xico 22200 > > Tel. 664 630-1577 Ext. 623 > Fax 664 630-1591 > eMail adalid(a)tij.uia.mx > > "No sobreviven los m�s fuertes, ni los m�s inteligentes, sino aquellos que > tienen una mayor capacidad para adaptarse a los cambios." > > --Charles Darwin-- >

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Re: [Koha-win32] Re: Koha-win32 digest, Vol 1 #66 - 2 msgs
by Adalid Ortiz 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Do you konw if exists Koha in Spanish. I'm testing in order to migrate to a linux server (Debian) too. Saludos, LIC. FELIPE ADALID ORTIZ ANZALDO Area de Medios Electrónicos Biblioteca Loyola http://www.loyola.tij.uia.mx UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA TIJUANA Ave. Centro Universitario 2501 Playas de Tijuana Tijuana, B.C., México 22200 Tel. 664 630-1577 Ext. 623 Fax 664 630-1591 eMail adalid(a)tij.uia.mx "No sobreviven los más fuertes, ni los más inteligentes, sino aquellos que tienen una mayor capacidad para adaptarse a los cambios." --Charles Darwin--

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Re: Migrating to Koha
by Adalid Ortiz 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Yes, i have a printer version of this article, it's very useful and I'm reading it now. Thanks, LIC. FELIPE ADALID ORTIZ ANZALDO Area de Medios Electrónicos Biblioteca Loyola http://www.loyola.tij.uia.mx UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA TIJUANA Ave. Centro Universitario 2501 Playas de Tijuana Tijuana, B.C., México 22200 Tel. 664 630-1577 Ext. 623 Fax 664 630-1591 eMail adalid(a)tij.uia.mx "No sobreviven los más fuertes, ni los más inteligentes, sino aquellos que tienen una mayor capacidad para adaptarse a los cambios." --Charles Darwin--> >Subject: Migrating to Koha > From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges(a)athenscounty.lib.oh.us> > Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:31:01 -0500 > To: adalid(a)tij.uia.mx > >Adalid - > >You might find this site helpful: > >http://www.skemotah.com/Migrating_to_Koha.html > >Stephen Hedges >Director, Nelsonville Public Library >95 W. Washington St., Nels.,OH 45764 >(740) 753-2118 fax (740) 753-3543

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Re: [Koha-win32] Re: Koha-win32 digest, Vol 1 #66 - 2 msgs
by Pat Eyler 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Adalid, congratulations on getting Koha up and running. I know that there have been some efforts made at migrating MicroISIS data into Koha, but I'm not sure who's done it so far. I thought putting the topic into a wider audience might bring some advice out of the woodwork. -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Adalid Ortiz wrote: > Yes, i have Koha running on Windows 98, Apache 2, MySQL 3.x. I'm now > searching for a way to migrate my data from Microisis to Koha and a > version of Koha in Spanish. > > > I'm running for years my library website on Windows98 and using apache, MySql, > Perl, so was easy to my installing Koha. The installer for windows do all things > that makes Koha run. Try it. > > Saludos cordiales. > > LIC. FELIPE ADALID ORTIZ ANZALDO > Area de Medios Electr�nicos > Biblioteca Loyola > http://www.loyola.tij.uia.mx > UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA TIJUANA > Ave. Centro Universitario 2501 > Playas de Tijuana > Tijuana, B.C., M�xico 22200 > > Tel. 664 630-1577 Ext. 623 > Fax 664 630-1591 > eMail adalid(a)tij.uia.mx > > "No sobreviven los m�s fuertes, ni los m�s inteligentes, sino aquellos que > tienen una mayor capacidad para adaptarse a los cambios." > > --Charles Darwin-- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Koha-win32 mailing list > Koha-win32(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/koha-win32 >

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RE: [Koha] FILMS
by Croson, John 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

I wouldn't mind finding out more about FILMS, but my argument would be, try to Google for it. I can't find any web page specific to FILMS... John Croson Technology Operations Manager Wustum Museum Racine Art Museum 441 Main Street Racine, WI 53403 262-638-8300 ext. 104 fax 262-898-1045 >-----Original Message----- >From: Max Stam [mailto:mstam@gsg.wa.edu.au] >Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 7:24 PM >To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >Subject: [Koha] FILMS > > >Gidday All >Our Librarian is looking for a new system. I've shown her koha but she >is leaning towards FILMS (Functional Integrated Library Management >System) We don't have any Microsoft servers (and I don't really want >them either). >Is anyone familar enough with both to give me a good argument for koha >and against FILMS? >Thanks >Max >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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Koha and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol
by Joshua Ferraro 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Benjamin, I think this question is a good one for the whole Koha community. Personally, I would love to see an interface between Koha and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol but I've not heard any discussion along those lines thusfar. What do folks think? > Thanks for your message, which my colleague Peter Pissierssens passed to > me and which I found very interesting. > Sorry to pester you with questions, but I was also wondering if there was > any interface between Koha and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for > Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). (and consequently Dublin Core). Several of > our colleagues and partner organisations have expressed interest in this > initiative as a way of getting the benefits of a distributed database > without the communication headaches of a fully distributed search. > > I have now subscribed to the mailing lists mentioned, so if you feel that > this question would be better answered by the community please feel free > to forward it on. > > Regards, > Benjamin Sims > Information Services > IOC/UNESCO > http://ioc.unesco.org > 1 rue Miollis > 75732 Paris Cedex 15 > FRANCE > Tel: [33] (1) 45 68 39 92 > Fax: [33] (1) 45 68 58 12 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Ferraro [mailto:jmf@kados.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:31 PM > To: Pissierssens, Peter > Subject: RE: KOHA > > > Peter, > > Greetings. The Z3950 Server for Koha works fine on a MARC21 system (NPL > has been using it for statewide resource sharing for several months now) > and can be found either as an add-on to Koha 2.0 (on my website at > http://kados.org/LibraryScience/zed-koha-server.pl) or in CVS in the > 2.2 tree. In both cases it is necessary to install the SimpleServer > Perl module from Indexdata (http://www.indexdata.dk/simpleserver/) > > The server can be started by running the zed-koha-server.pl script > in a terminal. Eventually it would be nice to build the server > into a daemon process but for now it is necessary to leave the > terminal open--it also logs all activity to the screen. > > There has been some talk about adding UNIMARC support and I would be > willing to develop that but would need shell access to a Koha system > using a UNIMARC database. If you require customizations for your > holdings data that could be arranged as well. > > If you want to see a Koha catalog in action you can check out Nelsonville > Public Library's at > > http://koha.athenscounty.lib.oh.us > > If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask. You may also > be interested in checking out the Koha lists. You can subscribe at > > http://www.koha.org/mailing/ > > Regards, > > Joshua Ferraro > > > >> Hello MJ, >> >> Thanks for your quick reply. The reason I mailed you is that I am more >> comfortable writing in English than in French for technical subjects. As >> Z39/50 compliance is a pre-requisite for our use I will contact Joshua >> Ferraro to find out how far he has reached with that task. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Peter >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: MJ Ray [mailto:mjr@ttllp.co.uk] >> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:25 PM >> To: Pissierssens, Peter >> Subject: Re: KOHA >> >> >> Hello Peter, >> >> I'm curious to know why you chose to contact me instead of the French >> developer? I studied in a university department which is active in >> oceanography, so I'm quite happy to help you, but I rarely get >> contacts from France. >> >> On 2004-03-01 13:30:48 +0000 "Pissierssens, Peter" >> <p.pissierssens(a)unesco.org> wrote: >> >>> I found your name on the KPHA web site. We are looking for an open >>> source >>> library management software application and Koha seems to fit that >>> description. However, one important feature I could not find on the >>> KOHA >>> site is Z3950 compliance. Can a KOHA library database be queried by a >>> z3950 >>> server? >> >> In 2.0, koha can query Z39.50 targets but cannot be queried. Joshua >> Ferraro, jmf(a)kados.org, is developing the Z39.50 interface for koha >> 2.2. >> >> By the way, should UNESCO people say "free software"? We are blessed >> with the UNESCO free software portal and directory, after all. >> http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoftware/ >> >>> Also, can you lead me to a few KOHA based online catalogues? >> >> I suggest looking at the "Test Drive" koha servers on the www.koha.org >> site for now. I can't publish details of many servers. If you are >> looking for a demonstration of a particular feature, I can try to find >> someone using it for you. >> >>> Thanks in advance for your reply >> >> I hope you find this useful. >> >> -- >> MJR mjr(a)ttllp.co.uk www.ttllp.co.uk +44 (0)870 4321 9 10 >> Creative copyleft computing consultancy, code and articles. >> Latest news: Working on ISP control panels and koha.org 2.0 >> >

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