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Release of software under open source license
by Andrew McMillan 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

Hi, I hope you don't mind this off-topic post (please reply off-list if you think this is impertinent :-) I am currently involved in a project to produce software for a public service in New Zealand and consideration is being given to releasing the resulting software under the [MG]PL. I would really appreciate hearing from the Koha team on their experiences in this process. The key issue for us at present is the (somewhat lame?) one of 'security through obscurity' that you get by not telling everyone how you did this. Any and all experiences would be interesting to me. Once again, I apologise for intruding. As an open-source developer (I am a member of the Debian project, and could package Koha for Debian if you wish me to) I have followed Koha with some interest. If you consider this off-topic then please abuse me in private :-) Kind regards, Andrew McMillan -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net.NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)916-7201 MOB: +64(21)635-694 OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Are you enrolled at http://schoolreunions.co.nz/ yet?

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small bug or bad installation + a question
by paul POULAIN 14 Feb '02

14 Feb '02

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Pending release of 1.2.0
by Tonnesen Steve 14 Feb '02

14 Feb '02

I'm working on a release candidate for Koha 1.2.0. I have a working Debian package, and an untested RPM package. I have no redhat machines to test it on. Are there any volunteers? A volunteer who will install the package and report back to me on the multitude of errors that will invariably result would be okay, a volunteer who has a test machine that I can get root access on would be even better. Big caveat: This package still isn't ready for upgrading production systems. New installs of Koha only for the moment. I need to determine what has changed in the database schema so that production systems can be updated properly. Steve.

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[Fwd: [oss4lib-discuss] Use of Open Source ILS]
by Ben Ostrowsky 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

-----Forwarded Message----- From: Marshall Breeding <Breeding(a)LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu> To: oss4lib-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [oss4lib-discuss] Use of Open Source ILS Date: 12 Feb 2002 10:23:25 -0600 I am interested in studying the progress of the use of Open Source library automation systems. To this end, I'm asking that any libraries that have implemented an open source ILS (Koha, Open Book, or any others) register on my lib-web-cats directory: http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding/libwebcats.html Just click on the link to "submit" your library's information. This information would then be available to anyone else, since the "Advanced Search" page of lib-web-cats allows you to search by library automation system. thanks, -marshall ----------------- Marshall Breeding Library Technology Officer Vanderbilt University 419 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37240 Phone: (615) 343-6094 Fax (615) 343-8834 http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding breeding(a)library.vanderbilt.edu _______________________________________________ oss4lib-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oss4lib-discuss see also http://www.oss4lib.org/

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how to administer some tables + (small) bug in distro
by paul POULAIN 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

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Script Modifications
by Larry Currie 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

I am attempting to modify some of the Perl scripts in Koha so that they conform to our local conditions. In the moremember.pl script, for instance, I have changed the ethnic classifications and I rewrote the checkdigit subroutine to reflect the type of patron barcodes we use. But I am not seeing these changes reflected in the koha intranet when I attempt to register new patrons. What do I need to do in order to have these changes take effect? I stopped and restarted the Apache server thinking that this would do it, but to no avail. The text of my changes is given below. Larry Currie Changes made to Perl script moremember.pl: my %env; print $input->header; #start the page and read in includes print startpage(); print startmenu('member'); my $data=borrdata('',$bornum); my @temp=split('-',$data->{'dateenrolled'}); $data->{'dateenrolled'}="$temp[2]/$temp[1]/$temp[0]"; @temp=split('-',$data->{'expiry'}); $data->{'expiry'}="$temp[2]/$temp[1]/$temp[0]"; @temp=split('-',$data->{'dateofbirth'}); $data->{'dateofbirth'}="$temp[2]/$temp[1]/$temp[0]"; if ($data->{'ethnicity'} eq 'white'){ $data->{'ethnicity'} = 'White'; } if ($data->{'ethnicity'}eq 'black'){ $data->{'ethnicity'} = 'Black'; } if ($data->{'ethnicity'}eq 'american indian'){ $data->{'ethnicity'} = 'American Indian'; } if ($data->{'ethnicity'}eq 'asian and pacific islander'){ $data->{'ethnicity'} = 'Asian and Pacific Islander'; } print <<printend Changes made to subroutine checkdigit in Input.pm: sub checkdigit { my ($env,$infl) = @_; $infl = uc $infl; my $sum1; my $sum2; my $sum3; my $i = 0; my $j = 1; my $valid = 0; # print $infl."<br>"; while ($i <14) { my $temp1 = substr($infl,$i,1); if ($temp1 = 0) { $temp1 = 0; } elsif ($temp1 = 1) { $temp1 = 2; } elsif ($temp1 = 2) { $temp1 = 4; } elsif ($temp1 = 3) { $temp1 = 6; } elsif ($temp1 = 4) { $temp1 = 8; } elsif ($temp1 = 5) { $temp1 = 0; } elsif ($temp1 = 6) { $temp1 = 3; } elsif ($temp1 = 7) { $temp1 = 5; } elsif ($temp1 = 8) { $temp1 = 7; } elsif ($temp1 = 9) { $temp1 = 9; $sum1 = $sum1 + $temp1; # print "$sum $temp1 $temp2<br>"; $i = $i + 2; } while ($j < 13) { my $temp2 = substr($infl,$j,1); $sum2 = $sum2 + $temp2; $j = $j + 2; } $sum3 = $sum1 + $sum2; my $rem = 10 - ($sum3%10); } #print $rem."<br>"; if ($rem eq substr($infl,13,1)) { $valid = 1; } return $valid; } END { } # module clean-up code here (global destructor) -- 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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researching advantages KOHA ?
by Asta Liivak 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Dear colleagues! I am a chief librarian from Estonia (special library type). We test to use INNOPAC. It is in use in Estonian scientific and some greatest public libraries: see: http://www.elnet.ee/ Powerful, Simple, Efficient Millennium's Cataloging is designed for ease and efficiency.........? see INNOVATIVE's INNOPAC: http://www.iii.com/html/products/p_cataloging.shtml Please tell me about advantages of KOHA's use? Best regards Yours Asta Liivak

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Titles of Items Requested Not Displaying
by Larry Currie 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

I'm testing out Koha on one of our servers and most everything is working beautifully, but when I went to the "moremember.pl" display the title area under Items Requested was blank. The dates that the items were requested is displayed and I can cancel requests, but the title is not visible. I can also search for the title through the catalogue and confirm that I have placed it on hold. Any ideas why the titles are not displaying? 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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where could I find marcimport.pl ?
by paul POULAIN 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

Hi folks, I'm from France, and maybe will adopt koha for a 80 000 books christian library. Surely if we do this, I will translate koha to french. My question is (again ;-((() about MARC... I've read almost avery posts from 2001, and, if I'm not crazy, I should have a "MARC-patch" somewhere. I've found in the 1.1.1 version (from sourceforge), a marc directory, with everything I need to create marc-DB : it works. I've also a koha2marc script, which doesn't work, but that's not important for instance. I should have a marcimport.pl somewhere, but ... impossible to find this script. The website 142.28.224.11 from steve is no more reachable for me Can someone give me a hand ? Is there somewhere a marcexport script ? The 1.1.1 is supposed to be the last version before full MARC support. And the next one is supposed to arrive soon. But can I have an idea of what soon means ? Last note : www.trfoundation.org is no more reachable (since 1 week), so openBook is no more downloadable. Has anyone an idea ? -- Paul

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RE: [Koha] Adding New Fields to Koha - librarian help please.
by Andrew Hooper 24 Jan '02

24 Jan '02

Hi All, I'm a new user to the list. (And just out of interest for the community have been embarking on a project to port Koha over to Windows NT/2000/XP. I'll create a separate post on this project if anyone's interested...) Also somewhat related to MARC, I have been investigating MARC-XML - which is a developing standard for converting MARC to the XML format... There are some great resources at this link - http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/marc.html Warmest Regards Andrew Hooper -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Stephen Hedges Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:33 AM To: Rachel Hamilton-Williams; Cc: Subject: Re: [Koha] Adding New Fields to Koha - librarian help please. If Koha is still interested in eventually providing full MARC support for the database and the front end, you might want to look at how MARC handles this information. Abstracts are most commonly stored in the 520 tag and URLs in the 856 tag. But note that MARC also provides room for URLs in several other tags in subfield $u (the 520 tag happens to be one). See http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic for a complete (and often confusing!) discussion of the MARC format. Stephen Hedges, Director Nelsonville Public Library Nelsonville, Ohio, USA > Hi all, > > We are investigating adding some new fields to Koha - for an URL and > an Abstract to be stored. > > At first glance I thought that they should be added to the Biblio > table - so that all items of that title would see/have the abstract > and URL. > > However I wondered if it would be more appropriate to add them to the > group record (which is the format information). > > For most items the distinction is pretty academic, however if anyone > has strong feelings in any direction I'd love to hear them. > > Cheers > Rachel _____________________________________________________________ > > Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications > WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 > mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington > http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand > Koha Open Source Library System > http://www.koha.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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