Great idea. What I would like to see was a service where the Patrons could go in and define their interest. Books by a certain author or about some subject for example programming. That could be a part a personalized portal to the library's OPAC where you could see your loans, the book you reserved etc. That way patrons could keep at track of any new books which matches their interest or they could see which books by their favorite author were recently returned. List of most reserved is also very usefull that way you can easily buy extra copies when needed. Árni Loftsson Libarian/systemadministrator Skanderborg Public Library Denmark
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Pat Eyler [SMTP:pate@eylerfamily.org] Sendt: 15. maj 2003 01:10 Til: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Emne: [Koha] Koha and RSS
A couple of us have been playing around with creating RSS feeds from Koha. We've come up with an engine which makes this pretty simple, and will be releasing it shortly (separately from Koha proper until after Koha 2.0.0 comes out).
Before we do release it, I wanted to get a bit of feedback on the idea in general. If you're impatient, you can go look at http://www.kohalabs.com/rss/ for screenshots and links.
===What is it: RSS is a method for publishing small chunks of data. The first example was a list of the 15 most recently acquired items in the database (probably nice for the avid reader/fan), a different version could be written to show recently acquired DVDs, CDs, videos, etc.. Another example shows the 15 items seen least recently by the system (perhaps they've been lost or misfiled). I'm sure that there are other potential uses for both library patrons and for library staff.
Nobody wants to see the raw RSS data, but there are a number of tools (called 'aggragators') which can be used to display the information in a useful way. (The screenshots linked to above show an aggregator called evolution.)
===What kind of feedback do I want: Well, something other than 'it sucks' or 'c00l d00d!'. I'd like to know if you think this might be useful. Are there other kinds of data you'd like to see in this format? Are there things you'd like to provide to your patrons like this?
thanks, -pate
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