Friday, July 23, 2004 00:50 CDT Hi, all, First things first - Joshua: I tried getting to those links you posted in your July 14th message. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Ferraro" <jferraro@athenscounty.lib.oh.us> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Cc: <koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:16 AM Subject: [Koha] Koha Presentation
Hi all,
I've got a Koha presentation at the OLC annual conference (http://www.heightslibrary.org/webmaster/olc_showcase/annual.php) and I'd like to put together a list of Koha features that folks are working on. I'll probably write up a brief synopsis of features similar to the one I did last time I presented on Koha (http://kados.org/LibraryScience/koha_at_a_glance.html). So if you're working on something exciting let me know and I'll include it. Other than that I'll be relying on release-notes, etc.
I don't know what I am doing wrong, but I can't get to them. (I had a similar problem with the link Ed Estka tried to offer). Any suggestions? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I have a few questions that have sort of crystallised out of my (so far poor) efforts to help out Christian Calle with his Koha questions. Please, anyone more conversant in Spanish, pitch in. (I'd have better luck writing him in Latin.) I played around online with the test version of Koha, not realising that any changes I made there would remain. I apologise if I've screwed anything up for anyone. At the time, I was intending to delineate the complete MARC21 field structure, but then I thought (erroneously?) that it wouldn't be available for anyone actually to use so what would be the point. Now, Christian is asking for a delineation of MARC tag structure (I think he was expecting that it was included withinn Koha to begin with, which I understood is not the case), so .... * Question 1: For his sake and for the sake of others, if I and/or interested others 'fix' what is available in the test version online, would it be possible for him/others to simply download it somehow? # From looking at this, it dawned on me that I wasn't seeing the Leader or the 001 defined (and had forgot to try to add them myself when mucking about), hence ... * Question 2: What is the relationship of the MARC record data within Koha? What I mean is, what does Koha actually do with the information in the fixed-length fields if anything? (BTW the current connection in the 003 test drive is wrong according to what I was taught/have seen). I had thought that Koha cataloguing could be worked without reference to the underlying database. If not, (follow-up questions): how do we connect all the potential MARC fields to whatever fields are in the core of the Koha database? Does Koha just turf info that doesn't fit into those, i.e. are records deconstructed and fields lost once imported? Devolving from this worry about MARC cataloguing and the integrity of records within the database (again: important for sharing and any future migrations), I realised I had never seen an answer to a rather straightforward OPAC matter, thus: * Question 3: What is the correspondence between the MARC structure and the actual records displayed in the Koha OPAC? I have to try to explain what I mean by analogy. The systems I am most familiar with (TKM MicroCat, Athena, Voyager) allow the library administrator/s to decide how to display information retrieved by OPAC searches. Librarians assumed a default non-MARC record display (which is almost certainly right) and the systems allowed decisions to be made about which fields to display, which to suppress, and in what order elements from tags should appear, and (with 2 of the systems), the label that would appear for the user beside the information (e.g. Author(s):, Title:, etc.). For that matter ... Question 4: How/Where does one set which MARC fields one wants searchable for a given search type? Is this adjustable? Just a few 'light' questions. ;-) Any and all answers appreciated (good ones, especially so ;-) ). Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.725 / Virus Database: 480 - Release Date: 20/07/2004