Is KOHA suitable for Digital Library?
I am new to KOHA ILS Solution, Can any body guide me that whether or not to use the KOHA ILS in place of digital library requirements? To what extend can KOHA cater to manage digital contents (PDF and TIFF and etc)? Regards, ATEEQ -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Is-KOHA-suitable-for-Digital-Library-tp341... Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
atiqse writes
I am new to KOHA ILS Solution, Can any body guide me that whether or not to use the KOHA ILS in place of digital library requirements?
Koha is a solution, not a requirement. ;-)
To what extend can KOHA cater to manage digital contents (PDF and TIFF and etc)?
Out of the box, it's capabilities in this area are poor. You will be better of working with repository software such as Eprints, DSpace, Fedora Commons, or, for a specialized collection, write your own software in-house. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel
Thank you very much Thomas & Other respected guys on the forum for their valuable inputs and expert opinions. I am currently running across a mix of Integrated Library and Digital Library Solution requirements: At the moment we don't have any library system for our library so On the one hand we want to implement a complete integrated library system (ILS) to manage the library for example Full catalog, circulation and acquisitions system for library stock management, Print own barcodes, Serials management, Web based OPAC system and other library mangement related modules. Whereas on the other hand we also want to digitize all the books into pdf and tiff format to make a digital repository so that these books can be searched, viewed and read online (using the same Webbased OPAC module). In the light of above scenario what could be the best potential solution? I really appreciate your feedback and your expert opinion. Thanks & Regards ATEEQ -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Is-KOHA-suitable-for-Digital-Library-tp341... Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:04 AM, atiqse <atiqse@hotmail.com> wrote:
At the moment we don't have any library system for our library so On the one hand we want to implement a complete integrated library system (ILS) to manage the library for example Full catalog, circulation and acquisitions system for library stock management, Print own barcodes, Serials management, Web based OPAC system and other library mangement related modules.
Whereas on the other hand we also want to digitize all the books into pdf and tiff format to make a digital repository so that these books can be searched, viewed and read online (using the same Webbased OPAC module).
In the light of above scenario what could be the best potential solution? I really appreciate your feedback and your expert opinion.
I think you definitely have to deploy Koha as your ILS. For the digital content, I like DSpace flexibility and standards compliance. You can think of it as a storage back-end for what you've got catalogued in Koha. If you plan to provide one file for each record, then it can be easily achieved using standard 856$u MARC21 field pointing to the file's URL. If you want to point to a page where the user can download several related files, then point to the DSpace record directly. As I said before, there are other use cases than can be more complex. To+
Certainly some people will tell you that Koha will work, but DSpace is much much better IMHO. http://www.dspace.org/ -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ------------------- On 03/09/2011 01:13 AM, atiqse wrote:
I am new to KOHA ILS Solution, Can any body guide me that whether or not to use the KOHA ILS in place of digital library requirements?
To what extend can KOHA cater to manage digital contents (PDF and TIFF and etc)?
Regards, ATEEQ
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Certainly some people will tell you that Koha will work, but DSpace is much much better IMHO.
Koha is not designed to work as a digitial repository. You could bend it to make it do that, but you'd be much better off using a digital repository like dspace, fedora or my personal favourite kete (http://kete.net.nz). Kete plays very nicely with Koha, and is another project started by Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications. Chris
On 3/10/2011 12:56 PM, chrisc@catalyst.net.nz wrote:
Certainly some people will tell you that Koha will work, but DSpace is much much better IMHO.
Koha is not designed to work as a digitial repository. You could bend it to make it do that, but you'd be much better off using a digital repository like dspace, fedora or my personal favourite kete (http://kete.net.nz). Kete plays very nicely with Koha, and is another project started by Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications.
Chris
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Well I am no expert but we use Koha to host our "digital branch". We have alot of holding that are historic and fragile so we created digital iteration and set them up as a virtual branch. The url link to a jpeg copy of our tiffs that live on a RAD server. We also load them into a Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/buttepubliclibrary/> account which has increased discoverability and drives traffic back to our library where more images and info are available. We really like this because it gives users and searchers more info and access for their time. Here is a link to our digital branch <http://catalogue.buttepubliclibrary.info/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=kw&op=and&idx=kw&op=and&idx=kw&limit=branch%3ADigital&sort_by=relevance&do=Search> and ourweb page <http://www.buttepubliclibrary.info/>. We also upload jpeg of our images to the Montana Memory Project <http://cdm103401.cdmhost.com/cdm4/browse.php> which is catalogued in Dublin Core. These records are loaded into World Cat which also increases discoverability. I don't know if this is what you have in mind but it works well for us, mainly because we control our TIFFs and originals, which is very important to us. My February post on my blog <http://leephillips2.wordpress.com/> also talks about how we are going to use Koha to catalog a local museum's images. So hope that helps. I think Koha works great for our digital projects. Lee Phillips Library Director Butte, MT
Another alternative is Kete: http://kete.net.nz Bob Birchall On 11/03/11 06:21, gsl wrote:
Certainly some people will tell you that Koha will work, but DSpace is much much better IMHO.
Do any libraries use KOHA and DSPACE together? Is there an example I could see? Thanks. Hal Bright, Adult Services Manager Farmington Libraries, 6 Monteith Dr, Farmington, CT 06032 Phone: (860) 673-6791 Fax: (860) 675-7148 hbright@farmingtonlibraries.org --- On Thu, 3/10/11, gsl <gsl@rhcl.org> wrote: From: gsl <gsl@rhcl.org> Subject: Re: [Koha] Is KOHA suitable for Digital Library? To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 2:21 PM Certainly some people will tell you that Koha will work, but DSpace is much much better IMHO. http://www.dspace.org/ -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ------------------- On 03/09/2011 01:13 AM, atiqse wrote:
I am new to KOHA ILS Solution, Can any body guide me that whether or not to use the KOHA ILS in place of digital library requirements?
To what extend can KOHA cater to manage digital contents (PDF and TIFF and etc)?
Regards, ATEEQ
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:13 AM, atiqse <atiqse@hotmail.com> wrote:
I am new to KOHA ILS Solution, Can any body guide me that whether or not to use the KOHA ILS in place of digital library requirements?
To what extend can KOHA cater to manage digital contents (PDF and TIFF and etc)?
Koha can handle links to digital content via a URL at a record (title) level. This can be done using (MARC21, UNIMARC I don't know) field 856$u and others. The default XSLT creates a properly presented link. This will work for a PDF file representing a digital version of what is catalogued. It will be just a link. If you have the requirement that a digital content is the compound of several images, which should be attached with structural metadata so they can be "rebuilt" for convenient navigation, then koha will not provide you with that. Note that for master copies archival there are more suitable software, for instance ICA-AtoM or CDB, Archon, etc. In that case, metadata is added at object-level using archival-description standards. <over-simplification warning> On DSpace or other "pre-print sharing and archival" software you can have compound objects, but no means of adding structural metadata (as-is). </over-simplification warning> Well, after writing this lines, I realize that you need to adjust your requierments, at least dig a bit deeper on what you mean by "digital library". To+
Respected All We are using Koha and Dspace software. We have uploaded the Seminar/Conferences videos on our Digital Repository, Guest lectures ppts, Reserach Articles of faculties, Photos of seminars. Please have a look at http://dspace.vpmthane.org:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:16 AM, <hansbkk@gmail.com> wrote:
Greenstone is another good open-source alternative.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:13 PM, atiqse <atiqse@hotmail.com> wrote:
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:13 PM, atiqse <atiqse@hotmail.com> wrote: I am new to KOHA ILS Solution, Can any body guide me that whether or not to use the KOHA ILS in place of digital library requirements?
These people have done some integration work between Koha and Greenstone http://gsdlkohalive.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsdlkohalive http://www.greenstone.org/blog And here's a book: http://www.nzdl.org/custom/howto2/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=p&p=about&c=book&nw=utf-8
Greenstone is another good open-source alternative.
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atiqse -
Bob Birchall -
chrisc＠catalyst.net.nz -
gsl -
Hal Bright -
hansbkk＠gmail.com -
Lee Phillips -
SANDEEP BHAVSAR -
Thomas Krichel -
Tomas Cohen Arazi