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Re: [Koha] Searching databases from the Koha Library Catalogue
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Hi Lizelle, Thanks for reaching out. That's a big question, and there are a lot of different answers, depending on your situation. One option is to get your database vendor to supply you with MARC records that you can import into your Koha. Depending on who provides your database content, they might provide a "discovery layer" that provides access to their database content (both EBSCO and Ovid do this), and then you can set up your Koha's OAI-PMH server to export MARC records, so that the database vendor can import your records into their search system. (There is also a Koha Plugin which lets you search EBSCO's EDS system from Koha itself.) There are other more self-service "discovery layers" out there as well (like VuFind and Blacklight and Aspen Discovery) where you import the MARC records from Koha and those database providers. Koha also has integrations with services like OverDrive which can show results in the search results itself. Depending on your situation, there might be some other potential solutions too. I hope that helps. Feel free to get in touch if you need more help. Cheers, David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 -----Original Message----- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:43:19 +0800 (AWST) From: "L. Smith" <lsmith(a)sheridan.edu.au> To: Koha <koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, Koha <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, kohasupport <kohasupport(a)liblime.com> Subject: [Koha] Searching databases from the Koha Library Catalogue (OPAC) Message-ID: <80326687.6566.1626921799410.JavaMail.zimbra(a)sheridan.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Good morning, I need some assistance please. How can we make the Koha Library Catalogue (OPAC) searchable for our staff and students so that all database content (purchased) can be retrieved/accessed? Thank you for your assistance. Best wishes, Lizelle Smith BA, AdvDipTour, DipLib, AALIA DCP Director of Library and Information Services Suite 18, 7 Aberdeen Street, Perth WA 6000 PO Box D178 Perth BC 6849 T: [ callto:+61 8 6222 4222 | +61 8 6222 4222 ] E: lsmith(a)sheridan.edu.au l W: [ http://www.sheridan.edu.au/ | www.sheridan.edu.au ] CRICOS No: 03391M. This email and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message .

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Searching databases from the Koha Library Catalogue (OPAC)
by L. Smith 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Good morning, I need some assistance please. How can we make the Koha Library Catalogue (OPAC) searchable for our staff and students so that all database content (purchased) can be retrieved/accessed? Thank you for your assistance. Best wishes, Lizelle Smith BA, AdvDipTour, DipLib, AALIA DCP Director of Library and Information Services Suite 18, 7 Aberdeen Street, Perth WA 6000 PO Box D178 Perth BC 6849 T: [ callto:+61 8 6222 4222 | +61 8 6222 4222 ] E: lsmith(a)sheridan.edu.au l W: [ http://www.sheridan.edu.au/ | www.sheridan.edu.au ] CRICOS No: 03391M. This email and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message .

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Koha-US Education Committee seeking new chair
by Hernandez, Heather H 21 Jul '21

21 Jul '21

Hi! The meeting notes from today's Koha-US Education Committee are below--we're looking for a new chair! Due to staffing changes at my work, I'm busier than ever and will probably remain so at least until the end of this calendar year--are you looking for a way to be more involved in the community? There's no minimum time commitment, meeting times & links are already set up, and you'll be working with great people! Contact me to chat about it and learn more, or feel free to reach out to info(a)koha-us.org<mailto:info@koha-us.org> Meeting notes from July 21, 2021 meeting: Mentoring: The new mentoring Google Group is set up and Jason is working on the welcome message to go out! People interested in receiving or being a mentor are being added to the group as their membership dues are paid. Webinars/Videos: Fred’s working on his conference presentation (possibly Z39.50 setup, command line scripts), and his next video in the planning stages is something along the lines of a follow up to his last video about setting up your library. Thursday videos: Going great! Possible ideas coming up: ways to use Git/GitHub (even a whole series?) They’re always looking for ideas and/or guests! Conference: The schedule is out! Remember to register, even if you’re a remote attendee, info at https://koha-us.org/conference2021/ The SIGs all have time slots on Thursday or Friday, so the SIGs’ regular meeting times in September will be canceled in favor of these meetings during the Conference—SIG leaders will be notified of their meeting times, and thinking about some topics to bring up to help promote discussions. Perhaps good to mention this schedule change at the August SIG meetings. We had some discussion of barcode scanners, inventory methods, and these would be good topics for the SysAdmin SIG conference session. Ref sheets: All in progress! (This is a busy time with many organizations fiscal years turning over this month and people preparing for the Conference.) Schema: Fixed in newer versions of Koha! Can be dropped from agenda. Next meeting: Wed., Aug. 18, 2021, 8:30 PT/9:30 MT/10:30 CT/11:30 ET Cheerio! h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ms. Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez(a)nps.gov<https://webmail.lmi.net/src/compose.php?send_to=heather_hernandez%40nps.gov> Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/

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Add reference to "About" page
by gveranis＠dataly.gr 21 Jul '21

21 Jul '21

Hi #koha community, I would like to ask how we can add our reference to "Contributing companies and institutions" in about page of Koha. Thanks, George Veranis

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Encode 'ç' to import authority .marcxml file with authority
by Javi Legido 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hi there. I'm trying to import an authority type 'GEOGR_NAME' with 'ç' in its name (field '151 a'): França So far: 1. If I manually add it from GUI (I want to import it from .marcxml file) it works typing 'ç' character. If I save the record as MARCXML I get below encoding: <subfield code="a">França</subfield> 2. If I use python to encode it: return string.strip().encode("ascii", "xmlcharrefreplace").decode("ascii") The generated MARCXML line looks like: <subfield code="a">França</subfield> In the GUI looks like 'Franȧ', and if I save it as MARCXML looks like: <subfield code="a">Franȧ</subfield> Worth mentioning that the bibliographic bit referencing this authority looks perfect, and it was created exactly the same as for authority, so the only problem is with authority. Does anybody faced similar problem before? In other words I need to generate programatically a MARCXML file to later on import it to koha (21.x), and some of the records (authorities) contains 'ç' and are not being encoded right.

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Ukrainian speaker(s) needed to fix a translation issue
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hello, The way the translation for Ukrainian is configured IIUC says that there is one singular and 2 plural forms. And a check for the following strings says that there should be {count} in the 1st form. So the singular should have the number of archived suggestions? I guess it will insert "1" so the translation for the 1st form should be done in a way that replacing {count} with "1" should be valid. Assuming the language config is correct. https://translate.koha-community.org/uk/20.05/translate/uk-UA-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/uk/20.11/translate/uk-UA-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/uk/21.05/translate/uk-UA-messages.po#u… What should actually be the translation? Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Turkish speaker(s) needed to fix a translation issue
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hello, If someone can reach a speaker, this should be simple. If something about the translation process is unclear, ask in the list or directly, I'll be glad to help. So, as part of the work to release this month's minor Koha versions, a few string translations have been found to generate errors. These errors on even small pieces of text can lead to major translation breakage not just on the invalid string. But no worries, they are manually marked for exclusion each month when releasing but the best thing would be to have the string correct. Here they are: https://translate.koha-community.org/tr/20.05/translate/tr-TR-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/tr/20.11/translate/tr-TR-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/tr/21.05/translate/tr-TR-messages.po#u… The {count} isn't there, it's used to insert the correct number of suggestion when displaying. And the translation aren't consisted between the 3 versions. Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Slovak speaker(s) needed to fix a translation issue
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hello, If someone can reach a speaker, this should be simple. If something about the translation process is unclear, ask in the list or directly, I'll be glad to help. So, as part of the work to release this month's minor Koha versions, a few string translations have been found to generate errors. These errors on even small pieces of text can lead to major translation breakage not just on the invalid string. But no worries, they are manually marked for exclusion each month when releasing but the best thing would be to have the string correct. Here they are: https://translate.koha-community.org/sk/20.05/translate/sk-SK-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/sk/20.11/translate/sk-SK-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/sk/21.05/translate/sk-SK-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/sk/20.05/translate/sk-SK-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/sk/20.11/translate/sk-SK-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/sk/21.05/translate/sk-SK-messages.po#u… Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Polish speaker(s) needed to fix a translation issue
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hello, If someone can reach a speaker, this should be simple. If something about the translation process is unclear, ask in the list or directly, I'll be glad to help. So, as part of the work to release this month's minor Koha versions, a few string translations have been found to generate errors. These errors on even small pieces of text can lead to major translation breakage not just on the invalid string. But no worries, they are manually marked for exclusion each month when releasing but the best thing would be to have the string correct. Here they are: https://translate.koha-community.org/pl/20.05/translate/pl-PL-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/pl/20.11/translate/pl-PL-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/pl/21.05/translate/pl-PL-messages.po#u… Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Bengali speaker(s) needed to fix a translation issue
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hello, If someone can reach a speaker, this should be simple. If something about the translation process is unclear, ask in the list or directly, I'll be glad to help. So, as part of the work to release this month's minor Koha versions, a few string translations have been found to generate errors. These errors on even small pieces of text can lead to major translation breakage not just on the invalid string. But no worries, they are manually marked for exclusion each month when releasing but the best thing would be to have the string correct. Here they are: https://translate.koha-community.org/bn/19.11/translate/bn-IN-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/bn/20.05/translate/bn-IN-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/bn/20.11/translate/bn-IN-messages.po#u… https://translate.koha-community.org/bn/21.05/translate/bn-IN-messages.po#u… Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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