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Integrating Koha with a Wiondows application
by Laurent 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Hello everyone on the list. I am new to this list and new to Koha too and have a little question to ask... My client is currently developping an application for the general management of an educational organisation (EO). The application is 2-tiered: Visual Basic front end and MS-SQL back end; it is however supposed to be able to interface wih other applications. On the other hand, the EO is implementing a library under Koha, obviously running on a Linux box. In order to fully integrate both applications, what would be the best way to link them? They will currently be made available on an intranet only but the library should eventually be accessible from the Internet. Thank you all in advance for any input on how to make this possible. -- Laurent Saplairoles Here's my thought: Bagpipes (n): an octopus wearing a kilt.

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Musing on a museum module
by Trevor Jenkins 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

A little while ago I enquired whether there was any interest amongst the Koha community in a museum module. A few people responded in the affirmative. :-) Seems to be a rather small and widely scattered group (me: UK, two: US, one?: NZ). My first thought is whether this fits into Koha! Whilst there are some proprietary library systems that have museum bolt-ons the latter modules are just that bolt-ons. The functional provision is therefore limited by the underlying library workflow assumptions. My second thought concerns the design of a museum module. Although the proprietary systems use the same or similar database this might not be the best choice. It is clearly a case of shoe-horning additional requirements. results in various comprises. There are also national standards for museum databases. For example here in the UK it is the Museum Documentation Association's SPECTRUM. Other national museum communities have similar standards. None of these are National Standards from BSI, ANSI, AFNOR, DIN, SiS or even ISO but are "de facto" standards. (I was part of the BSI/ISO cummunity responsible for SGML so am very aware of the different status "standards" have.) SPECTRUM is somewhat unwieldy and its documentaion is targeted at the museum professional not software engineers. Perhaps those interested would comment upon these thougts. First, should a museum module be added to Koha itself or is it better to use Koha as an example of open source achievements. Second, what database model should be adapted for a museum module/system? Personally, I'm not a fan of relational systems; my primarty experience is with text retrieval systems. Though my intent here is to consider the "schema" for a museum system not to make product choices. Regards, Trevor British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ -- <>< Re: deemed!

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he panui Koha (Mar 11, 2003)
by Pat Eyler 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

he panui Koha 11 March 2003 Hello, it's time again for another of my slightly irregular newsletters. There are a couple of things I'd like to let everyone know about and this seems the best way to do it. First, we've got a couple of changes to the management group: - Ingrid Lacis has agreed to take on the role of QA/Testing for us. She'll be heading up an effort to create tests to help us develop a better, faster, more error-free Koha going forward. Please join me in wishing her welcome and lending your support to this important initiative. - With his new job, Nicholas Rososco (who wears many hats for Koha) is going to be stepping down as the Translation Manager as soon as a suitable replacement is found. Nick will continue on as our Documentation Manager. If you're interested in getting deeply involved in the translation, localization, etc. effort, please drop me an email. - With the 2.0 series just around the corner, we're starting to talk about 2.1/2.2. One of the key pieces of making this work is to have someone in the driver's seat. Steve Tonnesen has graciously accepted this position. Another important piece of the 2.1/2.2 puzzle is building a solid vision for Koha's future. One place I'd like this to happen is on the koha2010 mailing list. This list is intended to be a place where non-technical discussion about features, enhancements, and the like can occur. As ideas take shape on this list, they can be moved over to the koha-devel mailing list for technical discussion about how to implement them. More information about the mailinglist is available from http://www.kohalabs.com/projects/koha2010/mail.html (including subscription info). On a different front, work is moving along on a Win32 Koha installer. At this point you can get a working Koha system set up on a windows system if you can get perl, apache, and mysql there. A new version of the installer may take care of these for you as well. Paul is hard at work on the 2.0 series, and we hope to see a 1.9.1 release quite soon. I've recently posted a request for developers to help clean up the bug database at bugs.koha.org -- if you've noticed a problem with Koha, please submit a bug report at that web page. We'd really like to get all of the bugs squashed. (BTW, one squashed and one that seems to have been squashed already ... and in under 30 minutes) And, as one last request for this newsletter, If you're currently using, migrating to, or testing Koha please add yourself to the koha users list at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaUsers (editing this page is easy to do). Getting the word out about Koha means a wider pool of users and developers ... and a better Koha. thanks, -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

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title search.pl returns no bib number for detail.pl to use
by James Guthrie 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

Hi all, Our installation of Koha seems to have gone smoothly, and I've migrated our old library catalogue across, again, successfully it would seem. But... Keywords and Author searches from the opac search page result work ok, but a search by Title spits out the correct results, but omits the bib number from the details page link. I end up with a URL that looks like... detail.pl?type=opac&bib=&title=Meteorology ...so, when I click on a hit, it leads me to a blank detail page -- the problem being, I imagine, that it doesn't have a bib number to run the query off. I've looked at the code, and the title and author searches both seem to be run from this line... ($count, @results)=&CatSearch(\$blah,'loose',\%search,$num,$offset); ...so I'm not sure why the title search is failing to come up with the bib number. So, to summarise ... help! cheers, James Guthrie Information Enthusiast MetService

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Re: [Koha] Musing on a museum module
by Stephen Hedges 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

> That's the fundamental requirement. But I > question whether a MARC oriented > schema is appropriate? A very good question. The serious catalogers I know complain that MARC is very weak when it comes to cataloging "realia." Stephen

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Koha 2.0
by Serge Renaux 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Hi, Do you know when Koha 2.0 will be available ? I used Koha 1.2.3 as test platform and my users are waiting for the French version. 1.9 release was not enough stable for me to put it vailable for my users. Regards Serge -- Serge Renaux Groupe ESIEE / CCI Paris EMail:s.renaux@esiee.fr Tel:(33)1.45.92.67.46

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Re: [Koha] Musing on a museum module
by Stephen Hedges 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Trevor - I have a fairly basic question -- what do museums do with the information they have in the database. I went to the SPECTRUM website ( http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum.htm ) and it looks like it's basically guidelines for describing the objects held by a museum. (I have no experience in museum work, so I may be missing something.) So I'm guessing that for you, Koha would be a way to store and retrieve information about the objects you've collected. Or do you sometimes loan items as well, and need to track them much as a library tracks book loans? Stephen Hedges Director, Nelsonville Public Library 95 W. Washington St., Nels.,OH 45764 USA > A little while ago I enquired whether there was > any interest amongst the > Koha community in a museum module. A few people > responded in the > affirmative. :-) Seems to be a rather small and > widely scattered group > (me: UK, two: US, one?: NZ). > > My first thought is whether this fits into Koha! > Whilst there are some > proprietary library systems that have museum bolt- > ons the latter modules > are just that bolt-ons. The functional provision > is therefore limited by > the underlying library workflow assumptions. > > My second thought concerns the design of a museum > module. Although the > proprietary systems use the same or similar > database this might not be the > best choice. It is clearly a case of shoe-horning > additional requirements. > results in various comprises. There are also > national standards for museum > databases. For example here in the UK it is the > Museum Documentation > Association's SPECTRUM. Other national museum > communities have similar > standards. None of these are National Standards > from BSI, ANSI, AFNOR, > DIN, SiS or even ISO but are "de facto" > standards. (I was part of the > BSI/ISO cummunity responsible for SGML so am very > aware of the different > status "standards" have.) SPECTRUM is somewhat > unwieldy and its > documentaion is targeted at the museum > professional not software > engineers. > > Perhaps those interested would comment upon these > thougts. First, should a > museum module be added to Koha itself or is it > better to use Koha as an > example of open source achievements. Second, what > database model should be > adapted for a museum module/system? Personally, > I'm not a fan of > relational systems; my primarty experience is > with text retrieval systems. > Though my intent here is to consider the "schema" > for a museum system not > to make product choices. > > Regards, Trevor > > British Sign Language is not inarticulate > handwaving; it's a living language. > Support the campaign for formal recognition by > the British government now! > Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ > > -- > > <>< Re: deemed! > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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[Fwd: Upcoming Trade Show]
by cliver 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Forgot to mention...this one day conference is attended by over 200 delegates(teachers/librarians from Secondary & Primary schools in Victoria, & some public libraries...so there is good potential to canvas a large market. I am prepared to do all the printing & such..... Regards Clive Robertson E.A.S. Services Melbourne, Ausrtalia (Alternate service for 3M Library Security Systems)

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Upcoming Trade Show
by cliver 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Hi.....here in Victoria (Australia) there will be a library conference for SLAV (School Library Association of Victoria) at which I will be haveing a 'trade show ' stand along with other library sullpiers in Victoria. I would like _ on behalf of the Koha group - to put up some form of poster advertising Koha etc, & also I have the opportunity (as do all other exhibitors) to place in each of the conference delegates satchels some advertising literature/pamphlets. Could some one please send me 'something' that I could print out for that day. The date of the conference is Friday the 28th March 2003. Regards Clive Robertson E.A.S. Services Melbourne, Ausrtalia (Alternate service for 3M Library Security Systems)

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Using MARC::Record to insert MARC data into MySQL tables
by Larry Currie 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

I hoping that within a couple of days we will have the item data for our collections loaded into the 945, 946, and 949 fields of our MARC records, and then we would like to run a Perl script which will go through each of our MARC records and extract and insert into the Koha MySQL tables biblio, biblioitems, and items all of the data needed to run version 1.9.0. Has anyone developed such a script at this point or give me an idea of what the commands would look like to accomplish this? Larry Currie -- Lawrence W. Currie User Services Librarian California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118 lcurrie(a)calacademy.org (415) 750-7108 (415) 750-7106 fax http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/

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