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ALA president-elect has noticed us
by Ben Ostrowsky 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Mitch Freedman, president-elect of ALA, has taken a look at Koha and is intrigued. He's in a position to spread the word about Koha and other Free or Open Source software, obviously. Important eyes are on us. :) Ben

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Koha/OpenBook
by Nicholas Stephen Rosasco 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

Has anyone else had a chance to look at the OpenBook OPAC? I have to confess I am .... impressed -- and also startled by how look/feel similar it is to Koha in some respects. NSR

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OpenBook Beta Technical release
by Deirdre McDonough 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

The Technology Resource Foundation is happy to announce the beta technical release of OpenBook version 0.8. Due to its beta nature, installation of OpenBook version 0.8 is not suggested for the beginning Linux User. Highly recommended prerequisite skills include: -Manuevering the Linux command line -Configuring, compiling, and installing packages from source -Editing system config files Point your browser to http://www.trfoundation.org/projects/download.html to download the beta technical release. We hope to have a fully functional v1.0 release in the early fall. As many of you may know, we began this project by working on Koha. We quickly realized that to meet the needs of our local target audience, we would have to support MARC. A message sent to this list in late May by Lora Morgaine explains this in more detail. It's not intended at this point to be Koha, but rather we required the ability to support MARC format and our target progamming language was different. While we were definitely inspired by Koha, and we sent the originally compatible work to Chris Cormack, the code is completely new. I hope this addresses anyone's concerns about this being a fork project. We sincerely hope that the code release is something that will be useful to the Koha project, it's clearly not the same beast at this point. Deirdre McDonough deirdre(a)trfoundation.org http://www.trfoundation.org

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Alert fellow open source fans! OPEN BOOK BETA IS OUT
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Found this in my mailbox this morning! Thank you for your interest in the OpenBook Integrated Library System. Today we would like to announce the beta technical release of OpenBook version 0.8. Due to its beta nature, installation of OpenBook version 0.8 is not suggested for the beginning Linux User. Highly recommended prerequisite skills include: -Manuevering the Linux command line -Configuring, compiling, and installing packages from source -Editing system config files Point your browser to http://www.trfoundation.org/projects/download.html to download the beta technical release. ed sharpe archvisit for smecc

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Intro
by Richard Snow 11 Jul '01

11 Jul '01

Hi. I just joined the list. I haven't seen any messages yet. I'm still installing Koha just to see how it works. I don't have a library, just interested in the software. Richard Snow http://richardsnow.bizland.com

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by Paweł Skuza 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hi I wrote a perl script which try parsing html and translate with gettext visible text (and title, fields alt, names of graphics). Said about it Benedykt. Can you set up me with cvs access? Best regards, Poul

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by Nicholas Stephen Rosasco 26 Jun '01

26 Jun '01

http://freshmeat.net/projects/pybliographer/ Is this of use to anyone? Randomly, Nick ...available for odd Koha research questions.

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Re: [Koha] MARC TODO list
by Tonnesen Steve 25 Jun '01

25 Jun '01

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > Remember some of us will use LC rather than Dewey, especially those in the > scientific library field..... The MARC tables that I'm working on can obviously store the 050 field, and it will be trivial to index on that field. This is the kind of thing that needs to be settable as a system preference ("Primary Call Number Search: Dewey or LC"). This is another issue which I'd like to see addressed, but isn't my current focus. Steve.

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Re: [Koha] MARC TODO list
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 25 Jun '01

25 Jun '01

keep up the great work! Will this run OK on the redhat distro? ended up with the server package... love the 90 day phone support aspect. Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC > Subj: [Koha] MARC TODO list > Date: 6/25/01 1:18:42 PM US Mountain Standard Time > From: tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca (Tonnesen Steve) > Sender: koha-admin(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz (Koha Open Source Library System) > > > > > > I've generated a short TODO list for adding MARC support to Koha below. > I've also checked most of my files into CVS now. I've placed most of them > in the koha/marc/ subdirectory, but the koha/C4/Catalogue.pm file is also > required to convert existing koha records to marc format. > > Please do not use any of this on production systems yet! > > > > TODO list > > 1. Finish cataloguing api (Catalogue.pm) > > 2. Modify existing code to use the new cataloguing api > a. start with all write routines > b. then all read routines > > 3. Polish up MARC editor. Must include some sanity checks to prevent > modifications with the MARC editor rendering the data unusable by > Koha. > a. don't delete the barcode, warning before modifying barcode > b. don't mess up linkages between 852 and 876 tags > c. Home branch and holding branch info should require warnings before > updating. > d. others? > > 4. Need to create some indexes of the MARC data to aid in searches. > Soundex searches would be nice. > a. subject index > b. title index > c. author index > d. dewey index > e. itemtype index > f. soundex indexes would require an index with 1 word in each record. > For example, a book with the title "The Habitat and Lifestyle of the > Elephant" would have entries for "Habitat", "Lifestyle" and > "Elephant" all pointing to the book's record. An sql query like > "select Record_ID from soundex_index where soundex(word) like > soundex('elefant')" would return a point to "The Habitat and > Lifestyle of the Elephant". (Personally, I think this is pretty > silly, but I had some librarians ask for it, and it isn't overly > difficult to implement). Soundex searches should be configurable as > an option somewhere. For example, have a special interface for young > children where they just type in a word and hit enter and soundex > searches are used, but normal searches do not use soundex. It would > be annoying for titles with the words 'Rode' and 'Road' to show up > when you search for 'Rhode', for example. > > 5. A million other things, probably... > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > >

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Re: [Koha] MARC TODO list
by Tonnesen Steve 25 Jun '01

25 Jun '01

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > Will this run OK on the redhat distro? > ended up with the server package... love the 90 day phone support aspect. I'm a debian user myself, but I don't see why any of this wouldn't work under RedHat. None of my changes are in any way distribution specific, so if you have Koha working, my changes should work just fine. Steve.

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