Anyone working on a "simplified interface" for cataloging?
Hi all, I've a need to position Koha 3.2 for a scenario where we are not going to get trained catalogers / lib pros. We are planning to use MARC21 at the back, but it would be great if the marc fields and tags can be hidden away from the users. I vaguely remember seeing something last year from Jared Camins that he was working on something like this - "easy cataloging interface" Any hints / tips? tia cheers -indra -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org
Indranil, As you vaguely remember, I have done some work on this. All my work is in my public git repository: https://github.com/jcamins/koha/tree/simple_cataloging I wrote the interface in Template::Toolkit, so it's not ready for merging yet, even once its entirely functional. If you have any further questions, let me know. Regards, Jared 2011/3/19 Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@gmail.com>
Hi all,
I've a need to position Koha 3.2 for a scenario where we are not going to get trained catalogers / lib pros. We are planning to use MARC21 at the back, but it would be great if the marc fields and tags can be hidden away from the users.
I vaguely remember seeing something last year from Jared Camins that he was working on something like this - "easy cataloging interface"
Any hints / tips?
tia
cheers -indra
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Here is an old thread that might help - note the specifics apply to an older version, but it's still valid as a general guide. http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2008-November/016058.html 2011/3/19 Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
I've a need to position Koha 3.2 for a scenario where we are not going to get trained catalogers / lib pros. We are planning to use MARC21 at the back, but it would be great if the marc fields and tags can be hidden away from the users.
I vaguely remember seeing something last year from Jared Camins that he was working on something like this - "easy cataloging interface"
Any hints / tips?
tia
cheers -indra
-- Indranil Das Gupta
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The important thing is to make sure you've got your default framework set up the way you want it first, and then use it to build the data entry frameworks. For non-MARC users, it's probably best to set up a very specific framework for each type of material. For instance, I know one of ours will be for music scores, and another for collections of separately published material bound together. This is because the coded fields require different things for different formats, and they're also the most difficult fields for untrained cataloguers to use. Once you've got the framework set up, you can then build a template record for each framework and set it to suppress in the OPAC. That's the theory at any rate, I haven't gotten to that phase of the project to see how well it works in practice. My IT guru seems to think he can figure out a way to extract the frameworks into a text file that can be edited outside of Koha and then re-imported. This would be faster than the current method of deleting unwanted fields using the Admin interface. This is rather far down on the list of things to do at the moment, but if it works I'll certainly share the method. Elaine On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:14 AM, <hansbkk@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is an old thread that might help - note the specifics apply to an older version, but it's still valid as a general guide.
http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2008-November/016058.html
2011/3/19 Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
I've a need to position Koha 3.2 for a scenario where we are not going to get trained catalogers / lib pros. We are planning to use MARC21 at the back, but it would be great if the marc fields and tags can be hidden away from the users.
I vaguely remember seeing something last year from Jared Camins that he was working on something like this - "easy cataloging interface"
Any hints / tips?
tia
cheers -indra
-- Indranil Das Gupta
Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg
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-- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
The important thing is to make sure you've got your default framework set up the way you want it first, and then use it to build the data entry frameworks. For non-MARC users, it's probably best to set up a very specific framework for each type of material. For instance, I know one of ours will be for music scores, and another for collections of separately published material bound together. This is because the coded fields require different things for different formats, and they're also the most difficult fields for untrained cataloguers to use. Once you've got the framework set up, you can then build a template record for each framework and set it to suppress in the OPAC. That's the theory at any rate, I haven't gotten to that phase of the project to see how well it works in practice. My IT guru seems to think he can figure out a way to extract the frameworks into a text file that can be edited outside of Koha and then re-imported. This would be faster than the current method of deleting unwanted fields using the Admin interface. This is rather far down on the list of things to do at the moment, but if it works I'll certainly share the method. Elaine - Show quoted text - -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) 2011/3/19 Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
I've a need to position Koha 3.2 for a scenario where we are not going to get trained catalogers / lib pros. We are planning to use MARC21 at the back, but it would be great if the marc fields and tags can be hidden away from the users.
I vaguely remember seeing something last year from Jared Camins that he was working on something like this - "easy cataloging interface"
Any hints / tips?
tia
cheers -indra
-- Indranil Das Gupta
Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg
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-- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
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