All, Now that Google Apps has appeared (just!), does anybody see any Koha-type applications? Right now, everything on Google Apps must be in python, but could local libraries run their Koha catalogs on Google, thereby saving themselves a lot of bother? James Weinheimer The American University of Rome
Jim -- As one who has been using Google Apps for several years, including company-wide at LibLime, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. You seem to be thinking of Google hosting Koha as an application. Yours is, as far as I know, the first such suggestion. In fact, I don't know of Google hosting any software that wasn't produced in house. There are several areas of development at Google relevant to libraries, foremost the new Google Book Services featuring an incredibly broad catalog of scanned book images, including covers and searchable OCR text. Some Koha users have made use of this content already. Other coders have integrated Google Calendar widgets into their OPAC for displaying scheduled library events. But these are far removed from running an actual ILS. I too would love for the ILS's (and most other services) that I admin to be hosted on Google's massive data grid, but I don't foresee that happening in the next decade... at which point Koha server should be running on my cellphone. :) --Joe Atzberger On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer@aur.edu> wrote:
All,
Now that Google Apps has appeared (just!), does anybody see any Koha-type applications? Right now, everything on Google Apps must be in python, but could local libraries run their Koha catalogs on Google, thereby saving themselves a lot of bother?
James Weinheimer The American University of Rome <http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha>
Hello,
Jim --
As one who has been using Google Apps for several years, including company-wide at LibLime, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. You seem to be thinking of Google hosting Koha as an application. Yours is, as far as I know, the first such suggestion. In fact, I don't know of Google hosting any software that wasn't produced in house.
Google Apps is a separate program, but I think it was a reference however to the newly launched "Google App Engine" - http://code.google.com/appengine/ - in which case I have to say it would be very interesting to see a Google-hosted Koha application. BR, Andrew
Sorry I wasn't specfic enough. I was thinking of the Google App Engine hosting project that they have just initiated. Andrew Seguin corrected this for me. Thanks. It could be interesting. Currently, they say everything must be written in Python but that they will add other languges as well. Jim James Weinheimer j.weinheimer@aur.edu Director of Library and Information Services The American University of Rome via Pietro Roselli, 4 00153 Rome, Italy voice- 011 39 06 58330919 ext. 327 fax-011 39 06 58330992 _____ From: Joe Atzberger [mailto:ohiocore@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:45 PM To: j.weinheimer@aur.edu Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Google Apps Jim -- As one who has been using Google Apps for several years, including company-wide at LibLime, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. You seem to be thinking of Google hosting Koha as an application. Yours is, as far as I know, the first such suggestion. In fact, I don't know of Google hosting any software that wasn't produced in house. There are several areas of development at Google relevant to libraries, foremost the new Google Book Services featuring an incredibly broad catalog of scanned book images, including covers and searchable OCR text. Some Koha users have made use of this content already. Other coders have integrated Google Calendar widgets into their OPAC for displaying scheduled library events. But these are far removed from running an actual ILS. I too would love for the ILS's (and most other services) that I admin to be hosted on Google's massive data grid, but I don't foresee that happening in the next decade... at which point Koha server should be running on my cellphone. :) --Joe Atzberger On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer@aur.edu> wrote: All, Now that Google Apps has appeared (just!), does anybody see any Koha-type applications? Right now, everything on Google Apps must be in python, but could local libraries run their Koha catalogs on Google, thereby saving themselves a lot of bother? James Weinheimer The American University of Rome <http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha>
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