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. Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology 402.363.5603 *jcoehoorn@york.edu <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@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@gmail.com> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH Message-ID: <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 ?
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