solomon kariri <solomonkariri@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi I want to use Marc4j(Java API for dealing with MARC records) to index koha using lucene(A Java indexing tool) so that I can implement a cross search between two applications while giving the result to the user in a manner transparent as to where the records came from such that the user can click on a link and will be redirected to koha to get more info about the item e.g. a book and maybe reserve it. Does anyone know how this can be done. Please help me. Thanks.

Hi - it's easier for others to reply if you set your linewrap below 70. I'm not sure, but I think there will be problems indexing Koha's MARC directly because it won't give all the holdings and so on. It can probably be made to work, but I think I'd try some sort of cross-search like using openSearch first, which should already have some support in Koha 3.0-beta. You may also find it more useful to ask the koha-devel list if you need to extend koha or get into its internals. Details on www.koha.org Best wishes, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237