Hi Marco, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
I'm looking for a library management software for my organization, so i've found koha. Interesting... ;-)))
I agree ;-)
Some question: 1) there's just a translation in Italian?! Can i contribute this?!
No translation in italian for instance. In the 1.2 versions, translation is quite hard, CPU-eater to build. We plan to use a templating system in a future version, to enable themes, and translations.
2) i want to use koha with postgres, but i need assurance that work with potgres. I've had experience with other software written for mysql that in theory work with pgsql but in practice all sources have to be rewritten. ;(
Can't say anything...
3) In any case need to be rewritten the schema. Please, don't distribute the schema in mysql dump format, is not portable and are full of (nonstandard) SQL instruction. Someone have just rewritten the schema for postgres?! Basically have to be rewritten the KEY instances (to CREATE INDEX) and the auto_increment (to serial). Again: PG support real referential integrity (FOREIGN KEY). There's somewhere a E/R schema that explain referential integrity, or can i add referential integrity (if someone exlain me the schema?!).
The problem is mySQL does'nt support referential integrity. Maybe in mySQL v4 it will be better. I don't know if so has rewritten the schema in standard SQL.
4) I'm new to library related problem, but seems that the MARC format is a standard in this field. Someone know if this also rule for european country?! Before starting a big google session, if someone have some pointers...
I'm a old newbie at library related problems... MARC is THE standard in libraries. The "problem" is that there are numerous MARC details... In france (and in Europe I think, so in italy, it should be the same), we use UNIMARC standard (UNIfied MARC). Don't know any url in italian. I've only url in french ;-) -- Paul