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RE: [Koha] SOS from Rome, Italy
by jmulford＠legionaries.org 12 Mar '02

12 Mar '02

Paul, Thanks for your frankness and suggestions. About the Italian version, since we have a VERY international student body, we would probably prefer the English version, but we wouldn't rule out Italian. If there were ever a KOHA Meeting in Europe, our University would be honored to host it. James Mulford, L.C. Director of Finance & Development Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum Via degli Aldobrandeschi 190 Roma, 00163 -----Original Message----- From: paul POULAIN [mailto:paul.poulain@free.fr] Sent: martedì 12 marzo 2002 10.05 To: Mulford James LC Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz; koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Koha] SOS from Rome, Italy jmulford(a)legionaries.org wrote: >Friends down under and all over, > >I've been "observing" the list for several months from Rome, Italy and would >like to ask a few specific questions, hoping that the answers will convince >our Systems Engineer to choose KOHA over AMICUS. > >Here goes: > >1. Is the MARC and z39.50 support up to par for a major installation? I've >seen activity in the list but would like to know the current status and >future targets for these features. > Be careful, there are a lot of MARC standards. In France, we use UNIMARC. koha, for instance, claimed to be MARC21 compliant. there are only a few diffs between MARC standards, but there are. In France, we use UNIMARC, and I will modify if there is a need to do so the marcimport and marcexport scripts to be UNIMARC and MARC21 compliant. This is a must-have for me. I think the ISO-2709 standard is our common meeting point, but I'm not really aware about that. >2. Can KOHA confidently handle our 100,000+ multi-language volumes, with a >growth rate of 10,000 a year? How far do you think KOHA can go, or is the >sky the limit? Do you recommend MySQL or another DBase? > Nothing to add to katipo responses. MySQL is the BEST DB at selection. It may have some perfs problems on heavy update/insert traffic, but a soft like koha has really more SELECT than INSERT/UPDATE. >6. Anyone at Katipo looking for a FREE fortnight in Rome - with a little >KOHA customization on the side, of course? Offers are welcome. Seriously! >(Chris, Rachel, Simon, ... You can answer off list if you prefer.) > If this happends, it could be an idea to organize a "koha meeting" in europe (maybe a "hard-coding meeting ???"), as I'm in France (Marseille, not too far from Italy) Note there is a point you haven't asked for : italian version of koha. I've investigated to find how to build a french version, it's not hard. You just have to follow README in translate directory. Note we are on the way to modify the tools used for koha, so, the translation method may differ. It won't be done in the next weeks anyway (after MARC compliance I think and propose) -- Paul

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SOS from Rome, Italy
by jmulford＠legionaries.org 12 Mar '02

12 Mar '02

Friends down under and all over, I've been "observing" the list for several months from Rome, Italy and would like to ask a few specific questions, hoping that the answers will convince our Systems Engineer to choose KOHA over AMICUS. Here goes: 1. Is the MARC and z39.50 support up to par for a major installation? I've seen activity in the list but would like to know the current status and future targets for these features. 2. Can KOHA confidently handle our 100,000+ multi-language volumes, with a growth rate of 10,000 a year? How far do you think KOHA can go, or is the sky the limit? Do you recommend MySQL or another DBase? 3. Does anyone have experience migrating from ALEPH or AMICUS to KOHA? I know it seems like a downgrade, but I love the opensource spirit and the full customization. Besides, I'm the University Administrator (Bursor) and the price is VERY attractive too! 4. Any knowledge of other people in Italy (or nearby) using KOHA who might be able to lend us a hand? 5. Any news about porting KOHA over to Windows NT/2000/XP? (POST- Jan. 24, 2002: Andrew Hooper ahooper(a)microsoft.com <mailto:ahooper@microsoft.com> ) 6. Anyone at Katipo looking for a FREE fortnight in Rome - with a little KOHA customization on the side, of course? Offers are welcome. Seriously! (Chris, Rachel, Simon, ... You can answer off list if you prefer.) James Mulford Director of Finance & Development Regina Apostolorum University Via degli Aldobrandeschi 190 Roma, 00163 Tel: (+39) 06.66.52.78.00 Fax: (+39) 06.66.52.78.92 Videoconference: (+39) 06.6652.7962 www.upra.org <http://www.upra.org> ========================================================= At 19.19 25/05/01 +0200, you wrote: >Friends, > >Greetings from Rome, Italy! This is my first post to the list. I'm a member >of a consortium of 16 Universities in Rome with all our libraries containing >a little over 2,000,000 volumes. Most have been using Aleph300 for the past >10 years and are seriously considering switching to AMICUS (used by British >Library, Australian & Canadian National Systems, etc.) but I recently came >across the Koha Proyect and have been impressed. ... James Mulford Director of Finance & Development Regina Apostolorum University >

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Re: [Koha] WINISIS - Support
by paul POULAIN 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

sunilmysore(a)indya.com wrote: >Dear members, > >I had created a database in WINISIS (CDSISIS for Windows). Does KOHA supports the WINISIS database. If so please do inform the steps and procedures. > >with regards >sunil > koha does not support ISIS file format, but you can import and export ISO-2709 datas (Menu Initial / Fichier ou base de données / Exportation, in the french doc) , so with the next version of koha, it should be ok : export datas from ISIS, and reload them in koha. If you use ISIS for borrowing..., that should be ... less easy to transfert those tables to koha... (undoable according to me) -- Paul

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WINISIS - Support
by sunilmysore＠indya.com 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

Dear members, I had created a database in WINISIS (CDSISIS for Windows). Does KOHA supports the WINISIS database. If so please do inform the steps and procedures. with regards sunil

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Circulation and Members
by Wilmar Perez 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Hello guys Your software seems to be great, however there are just a couple of things that don't seem like working very well: 1. While in the intranet mode, if I try to get into the Circulation module I just end up with a blank page. 2. I've got some test members, however when I look for them, they're nowhere. Any idea? Thanks a lot ******************************************************* Wilmar Pérez Network Administrator Library System Tel: ++57(4)2105145 University of Antioquia Medellín - Colombia 2002 ******************************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Servicio de Correo Electronico Sistema de Bibliotecas Universidad de Antioquia ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Rooted URL's
by Mark Bondurant 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

I'm a bit stumped as to how I'm going install this thing. I'm not/can't running a name server so I can't install it as a virual host. You folks have rooted all of your URL's (this means you start them all with a slash) so I can't install it as a virtual directory. The best I an come up with is to mix it in with my root web site (yech!). This may cause difficulties with index file names and may limit my ability to upgrade in the future. In the future, when you build a site, try to keep in mind that it may be installed anywhere, not necessarily in the web root. You should use relative addressing. Mark Bondurant mbondr(a)bongo.net PS. On your splash page it says: "Horowhuenua Library Trust Catalogue and Member Services". This implies that the library that the system is indexing is the Horowhuenua Library. If this is truely an open source system, open to use by every library, then it probably ought to say something like: "Open Source Catalogue and Member Services System/From The Horowhenua Library Trust".

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I will work on koha !
by paul POULAIN 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

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No virtual servers
by Wilmar Perez 28 Feb '02

28 Feb '02

Hello guys. Thanks a lot for your software, looks very good. I'm trying to install it but don't want to use virtual servers, is there anyway I can do it? Thanks ******************************************************* Wilmar Pérez Network Administrator Library System Tel: ++57(4)2105145 University of Antioquia Medellín - Colombia 2002 ******************************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Servicio de Correo Electronico Sistema de Bibliotecas Universidad de Antioquia ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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404 Not Found
by Michael Joyner 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Is it just me, or are there several bat hrefs in koha at the moment? <http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/acquisitions/>

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Re: Koha Help...
by Rosalie Blake 25 Feb '02

25 Feb '02

Dear Professor Tamboli, I have forwaded your question to the Koha list, where people with technological experience will help. Please join the Koha list from http://www.koha.org/ Rosalie On 25 Feb 2002, at 4:00, nmt(a)mkv2.mah.nic.in wrote: > Dear Sir, > we are a educational institution, > I want to install koha on PII running RedHat 6.2 in our library. > Can i enter book cost in indian currency (Rs) ? > also what are rules for forming cardnumber? > In future if i have some questions like above should i drop a line on > same mail id ? With high regards N.M.Tamboli Assistant Prof. Maths & > Computer Science MAU , PARBHANI (MS) - INDIA > >

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