Thank you, everyone, for the feedback! So, what I'm hearing is that COiNS in the search results is definitely a feature worth keeping, as lots of folks are making use of it with tools like Zotero. Good to know. I'm half-way through writing a patch that will add a system preference so you can choose whether you want to continue to use COiNS on the OPAC search results page (will not affect any other page, like opac-details.pl), or remove them in favour of a faster search. The default value will be "Use", so the default behaviour will remain the same. More choices = more power to the user! -Ian On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Elaine Bradtke <eb@efdss.org> wrote:
We also encourage our patrons to use Zotero. Personally I use it (Zotero) myself, constantly, for my other job. Elaine On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
I know that academic libraries point out to their patrons that there is Zotero integration (much smoother than the Refworks or Endnote way of doing things). If we were to remove it it should be a preference for people to turn on because having Zotero integration is a big deal to research libraries (and to me personally).
Nicole
2011/3/25 Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>:
Community,
Did you know that Koha automatically parses the bibliographic records it returns with a search, and gives you a COiNS/OpenURL/Z39.88 span that bibliographic utilities can pick up on? I did, but I've never had call to use it.
Does anyone out there make use of this feature, or teach their patrons to?
I ask, because it's a very expensive feature, resource-wise, and if it's not commonly used, it may be best to be something we enable/disable with a system preference.
I've filed a bug report for this (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5957), and will be working on a patch, if the community feels this is worth the effort.
Cheers,
-Ian
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