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KohaCon16 - Registrations & Call for proposals Open
by BOUIS Sonia 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi, We have a user association in France, called KohaLa, and we try to communicate about Koha through our website and a list, to organize events to promote it and to help users to meet and to discuss. We have organized training for association members. I would be interested in feedback from other users union to know what they are organizing. Would anybody be interested in this subject apart me? Would anybody willing to propose a common proposal about this subject? I think that it would be more interesting to have different feedbacks? And, on a different subject, several libraries in France are really interested in the progress of ElasticSearch in Koha. I imagine that someone will propose a proposal about it ? Best regards, Sonia BOUIS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:04:12 +0200 From: ??????? ?????????? <ikourmou(a)lib.auth.gr> To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz, kohanews(a)gmail.com, koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org Subject: [Koha-devel] KohaCon16 - Registrations & Call for proposals Open Message-ID: <CAAMU9tfJ0JnavZ4o=CayDDmc+3TJ6iveksH5otu3S8PBj7vk5Q(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ??Dear koha lists members We are pleased to announce that Registration <http://kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr/?page_id=24> and Call <http://kohaCall/> for Proposals <http://kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr/?page_id=29> are now open for Kohacon16! Registration is free. Developers, technical support staff, librarians are invited to share their experience by contributing with a presentation proposal based on their knowledge, ideas, best practices and even mistakes! (Please note that all presentations will be in English). KohaCon16 will be organized by the Library & Information Centre and will be held at the Aristostle University of Thessaloniki on 30 May ? 4 June 2016. For detailed information and updates, please visit the *KohaCon16 site* <http://kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr/>. ?Let's make it Ko-ha-ppen!?? KohaCon16 Library & Information Center Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR-54124 Thessaloniki Greece ? ?tel: +30 2310 99 5368 <+302310995368> ? email: <kohacon16(a)lib.auth.gr>kohacon16(a)lib.auth.gr ?url: ?kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr

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check in error (2)
by Monisa Aslam 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Software error: No branchcode argument passed to Koha::Calendar->new at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Overdues.pm line 306 Monisa Aslam

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Marcedit on Linux
by Monisa Aslam 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hello everyone. Can anyone guide me step by step that how to install marcedit on Linux. Either through wine or mono. I tried but it's not working Monisa Aslam Sent from my Samsung device

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Check in error
by Monisa Aslam 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Software error: No branchcode argument passed to Koha::Calendar->new at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Overdues.pm line 306 Monisa Aslam

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Koha Conclave Bangalore (17-18 February 2016)
by Amit Gupta 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi All, Informatics is pleased to present National Koha Conclave - a two day event on Koha and Indian Libraries scheduled on 17th and 18th February 2016 at Bangalore. The event will be inaugurated by* Mr. Chris Cormack (New Zealand), the original developer of Koha*. Chris will also be presenting an advance level half-a-day workshop on Koha during this two day event. The event will witness several eminent speakers from the Indian Library landscape and Koha experts through plenaries, panel discussions, case studies and future development needs and opportunities on Koha. The event will be attended by existing and prospective users of Koha. The highlights of the event are: a) Koha, the Road Ahead: A global view from Chris Cormack. b) Development/Customization challenges. c) Wish List by Participating Koha Users - Review Discussion. d) Successful Koha implementations - Case Studies. e) Advance Workshop on Koha (150 minutes). f) Koha on Cloud - Panel Discussion. g) Koha as a Collaborative Platform for Indian Libraries - Panel Discussion. Please mark your calendar and block your dates for this event - National Koha Conclave and register your participation at the link: http://informaticsglobal.com/kohameet Since limited seats are available, please rush your registration. Venue: *Fortune Park JP Celestial, Bangalore* http://www.fortunehotels.in/bengaluru-fortune-park-jp-celestial.dh.23 -- Regards, Amit Gupta Informatics Publishing Ltd., Bangalore

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Re: [Koha] Koha Search Indexes
by Paul A 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

At 08:42 AM 2/1/2016 -0600, Nicole Engard wrote: >Hello all, > >I updated this page in the manual >http://manual.koha-community.org/3.24/en/kohasearchindexes.html because >there were many indexes not listed in there. Would index experts please >take a look to make sure I caught all of the indexes? Many thanks. Could you possible add an explanation of the suffixes :n, :p, :w, :u (URL?) and :s? Tnx and br -- Paul --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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Koha General IRC Meeting reminder
by Mirko Tietgen 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello everyone, the next general IRC meeting is 03 February 2016 10 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+IRC+General+M… Place: The #koha IRC channel (IRC server irc.oftc.net) If you don't have an IRC client you can join the meeting using your web browser. http://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=koha Agenda: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Next_General_IRC_meeting Cheers, Mirko -- Mirko Tietgen mirko(a)abunchofthings.net http://koha.abunchofthings.net http://meinkoha.de

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Setting DueDates and Sending OverDue Notices
by Jesse Lambertson 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello everyone, We are working in a koha set up (3.20 on debian 7 - package install on local server). Our notifications are edited to send, most of them are going out etc. But the system is sending NO Overdue notices for some reason, Let me summarize what I have set up in case this is helpful to anyone. In Administration > Circulation & Fine Rules, we have set the circulation polices, renewal permissions per patron types etc. In Patron Category Admin, we have set Overdue notices to YES. In that same Category, we have the set circulation unit in days (30) which seems like it SHOULD trigger overdue notices at the appointed time - it is not. *Why might this be*? Also, regarding the set up of Hard Due Dates: *Do these have to be set to trigger OverDue notices if the other circulation rules are set*? https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Hard_Due_Dates_Circ_Rule_RFC I am not finding the language here as clear as I think it could be for me. We are currently sending notices for Advance Notice, Item Due and Holds Available. But OverDue notices are not going out. I might have incorrectly set up the triggers defined here http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/3.20/en/html-desktop/#noticetrig… because I have delays set for advance notice and items due and one Overdue notice. But it SEEMS the advance notice would need a different delay trigger than overdue because one is before the item is due and one is after. The Cronjob is running to check them, the messaging queue is being checked every 15 minutes according to the logs, but they are still not being sent. *What is it I am missing here*? *Is this a trigger set-up issue, a hard due date issue or something deeper*? Thank you for any advice. Jesse. -- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian <http://www.sqcc.org/>عالم الانجازات ينحاز دوماً مع المتفائلين

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Re: [Koha] Marcedit on Linux
by Sher Afzal 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Could you shear that what kind of problem you face wile trying to installed marcedit? Whaich falver of Linux you using? For installation of marcedit on Linux it is very important to that you have the Mono framework installed.Did you installed the Mono framework? Following Vedio will aslo help you in this regards. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N65IHRiRby8 You can joined this community for koha related problems. https://www.facebook.com/groups/965873873493081/ Sher Afzal Khan Chief Librarian HEC Approved Trainer for Open Source Software Koha & Dspace Country Ambassador DSpace Software Mortensen Center Associate USA 2015 Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Monisa Aslam <monisaaslam(a)hotmail.com> Date: 01/02/2016 10:25 PM (GMT+05:00) To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Marcedit on Linux Hello everyone. Can anyone guide me step by step that how to install marcedit on Linux. Either through wine or mono. I tried but it's not working Monisa Aslam Sent from my Samsung device _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH [and digital materials]
by David Cook 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi Joel, Thanks for your email. I think I’ve sorted things out with Flo, but I wanted to come back to your email, which I’m going to cross-post to the developer listserv as well. I originally started working on an OAI-PMH harvester to create an automatic import of records from DSpace into Koha, so that Koha could show electronic resources in the catalogue. While having good item types, frameworks, and templates are good, I found the main problem to be the metadata quality. Dublin Core doesn’t translate very well to MARC. Although now that I’m re-reading your email… are you talking about making MARC records in Koha and then using DSpace’s OAI-PMH harvester to import metadata from Koha? Then attaching digital materials in DSpace while using Koha to maintain the metadata? That could be interesting… I agree that Koha needs to evolve to have better support for digital materials. However, I’m not sure what you mean by “a first-class framework for URL-only item types” though. Could you elaborate on that? Better integration into systems like DSpace may be achieved using their evolving REST APIs, although again I’m not sure what you mean by “a user might end up checking-out some digital content stored there [DSpace? Koha?] (a record is created in the issues table) that doesn’t need to check back in”. Why would you need to check out digital content in DSpace? In my experience, content is either open to the public or limited to logged in users (as part of licensing/rights restrictions). Are you thinking of something more like hosting your own ebooks in DSpace and complying with concurrent user restrictions? That could be interesting as well, although I think the majority of that work would be done in DSpace with Koha just hooking into a DSpace API to determine if there are any “available” copies for the material that they found in the Koha catalogue. I admit I’m not super familiar with ebook DRM either, so I’m not certain how much intervention would be required for expiring “on loan” DRM protected library ebooks. Personally, I find most of our Koha client libraries are interested in allowing their users to find “only electronic resources” and to provide seamless access to third-party sites like EBSCO, Proquest, and other publishers that host the actual content. EBSCO have been putting work into that with the Koha-EDS plugin, although I’d like to see more done in that area, although that’s actually more a matter of digital material publishers providing authentication and API options. If they provide the hooks, we can provide the services. I’m curious to hear your thoughts. If you have ideas for things you’d like to see, feel free to share them. If you have a budget for sponsoring development, feel free to mention that as well. It’s actually quite an exciting time to be working on Koha as large organizations like EBSCO and the National Library of Sweden are sponsoring developments in areas like OAI-PMH harvesting (which I’m working on now), moving to ElasticSearch for search and retrieval, a new REST API, etc. Even if you don’t have the money yourself, you might propose ideas on the koha-devel listserv and see if anyone is interested in sponsoring that work. Cheers, David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 From: Coehoorn, Joel [mailto:jcoehoorn@york.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 10:25 AM To: David Cook <dcook(a)prosentient.com.au> Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz; flo.pouyenne(a)gmail.com Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH It sounds like she's talking about using a program that acts kind of like a web search crawler, similar to how Googlebot operates, to push information into Koha. If that's the case, I don't think Koha would be a good solution for this right now, though you might get something working via a z39.50 connection. It may be that she's asking if Koha can store and serve/circulate harvested digital content directly. Again, I don't believe Koha in it's current form would be good at this. Koha does not currently provide any place to store binary files for circulation. It may also be that she's asking if she can use Koha as a front end into something like DSpace <http://www.dspace.org/> or Greenstone <http://www.greenstone.org/> . If that's the case, I believe Koha can do this right now, but the setup is not yet easy or straightforward. In a nutshell, you would want to enter marc records for each item in the repository, just like you do for current materials, but you would want to use item types and a custom framework so that the material is presented well. I would welcome improvements in Koha to support any of those scenarios. Ultimately, I think Koha needs to evolve to have better support for digital materials. At a minimum, this means a first-class framework for URL-only item types along with first-class integration into systems like DSpace, where a user might end up checking-out some digital content stored there (a record is created in the issues table) that doesn't need to check back in. As distasteful as it may be, this probably needs to also include some kind of copyright enforcement mechanism, to allow libraries to easily comply with external licensing requirements. <http://www.york.edu/Portals/0/Images/Logo/YorkCollegeLogoSmall.jpg> Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology 402.363.5603 jcoehoorn(a)york.edu <mailto:jcoehoorn@york.edu> The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:04 PM, David Cook <dcook(a)prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au> > wrote: Hi Florence, I'm afraid that I don't understand your question. What do you mean by "Can Koha be used to manage a digital library"? Are you asking if Koha can show metadata records from a digital library? Or are you asking if Koha can add/update/delete records in a digital library? Or both? Or something else? I'm currently working on an OAI-PMH harvester for Koha, but the sole intent at the moment is to harvest metadata records from other systems and import them into Koha. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -----Original Message----- > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:08:31 +0000 (UTC) > From: Florence <flo.pouyenne(a)gmail.com <mailto:flo.pouyenne@gmail.com> > > To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH > Message-ID: <loom.20160126T160510-456(a)post.gmane.org <mailto:loom.20160126T160510-456@post.gmane.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello, > > Can Koha be used to manage a digital library ? With a OAI-PMH harvester ? > > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz <mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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