MJ, I may be able to shake loose some funding for this. I'm pretty sure I could help you get an development partner (library) with RFID self-check and ISO 28560 compliant tags. Do you have a more format spec or RFC? Lori On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:57 PM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
ajesh@maxenna.com wrote:
I have recently installed Koha3.4 on Ubuntu. [...] But what we want to implement is an RFID reader instead of the barcode scanner. Each book will have a RFID tag. The patron will pick the books from the shelf and bring it and place some books on top of RFID reader which will read all the books at once, say for example 4-5 books at once.
My doubt is how can I read this information into koha. Any suggestion please.
I have code for this. It works basically like you describe, although I note that reading tags on electronic kit is a bit of a pain. Even DVDs will shield some tags, so choose carefully.
The last release was for 3.0, which is just being end-of-lifed. It needs updating for 3.4 and the recent ISO standard for RFID tags, but is already in use by at least one library. I plan to be updating it for 3.4 and then 3.6 as soon as funding is agreed. It will go quicker with either help or additional funding. Do you have either?
More details or a place to subscribe for news: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2244
Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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