ByWater Solutions and Software.coop Collaborating on Koha EDI Support
Dear Koha Community, It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop of Somerset, England and ByWater Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) to Koha. EDI will greatly increase the functionality of the acquisitions module of Koha by allowing a direct electronic exchange from one entity to another, making processes such as billing and the transmission of purchase orders seamless. It may optionally accept bibliographic records from a vendor, making cataloguing quicker. It was described in the journal "Program: electronic library and information systems" Vol. 44 No. 3, 2010. The EDI code, which was written by software.coop, will be rebased by ByWater Solutions on the current head of the Koha project. The rebased code will be submitted for possible inclusion in the 3.4 release of Koha. Cheers, -Ian -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal
2010/10/14 Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>:
Dear Koha Community,
It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop of Somerset, England and ByWater Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) to Koha.
Very cool to see cooperative activities of this type. Makes it fun to be here. thanks, -reed
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Reed Wade <reedwade@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/10/14 Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>:
Dear Koha Community,
It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop of Somerset, England and ByWater Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) to Koha.
Very cool to see cooperative activities of this type. Makes it fun to be here.
Very nice indeed! I hope others will pick up on this type of cooperation. There are a number of outstanding feature sets in various repos at the moment which could benefit from this sort of thing. Kind Regards, Chris
This is brilliant news ! 2010/10/14 Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>
Dear Koha Community,
It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop of Somerset, England and ByWater Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) to Koha.
EDI will greatly increase the functionality of the acquisitions module of Koha by allowing a direct electronic exchange from one entity to another, making processes such as billing and the transmission of purchase orders seamless. It may optionally accept bibliographic records from a vendor, making cataloguing quicker. It was described in the journal "Program: electronic library and information systems" Vol. 44 No. 3, 2010.
The EDI code, which was written by software.coop, will be rebased by ByWater Solutions on the current head of the Koha project. The rebased code will be submitted for possible inclusion in the 3.4 release of Koha.
Cheers,
-Ian
-- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal
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Le 13/10/2010 18:42, Ian Walls a écrit :
Dear Koha Community,
It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop <http://software.coop> of Somerset, England and ByWater Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) to Koha.
Hi Ian, Could you give me (us) some technical details ? We have a vendor in France wanting to add some EDI support to Koha too (yes, a bookseller). If you explain which standards you'll use, that could/may be helpfull. thanks -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
Paul Poulain wrote:
Le 13/10/2010 18:42, Ian Walls a écrit :
It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop <http://software.coop> of Somerset, England and ByWater Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) to Koha.
Hi Ian,
Could you give me (us) some technical details ?
Any reason to ask only Ian? ;-)
We have a vendor in France wanting to add some EDI support to Koha too (yes, a bookseller). If you explain which standards you'll use, that could/may be helpfull.
We're using EDIFACT over FTP. If the French vendor can give the co-op and/or ByWater a test server account, that would be excellent and help speed parameterisation and release of the code. Finding good EDI test accounts may be the biggest remaining challenge to making this feature branch a general-purpose release. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha
Le 09/11/2010 14:46, MJ Ray a écrit :
Paul Poulain wrote:
Le 13/10/2010 18:42, Ian Walls a écrit :
It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop <http://software.coop> of Somerset, England and ByWater Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) to Koha.
Hi Ian,
Could you give me (us) some technical details ?
Any reason to ask only Ian? ;-)
Because he wrote the mail here ;-)
We have a vendor in France wanting to add some EDI support to Koha too (yes, a bookseller). If you explain which standards you'll use, that could/may be helpfull.
We're using EDIFACT over FTP. If the French vendor can give the co-op and/or ByWater a test server account, that would be excellent and help speed parameterisation and release of the code. Finding good EDI test accounts may be the biggest remaining challenge to making this feature branch a general-purpose release.
cc: Francois Charbonnier, our project manager, that will join & ask the vendor for a test account if possible. Francois : direct mails = mjr _chez_phonecoop.coop and ian.walls _chez_ bywatersolutions.com -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
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