If koha enable us to catalog Ethiopian collection. That books written in Amharic language. Please if any one who has such experience. please, please/ Thank you Dagne
Dagne, the problem is not the language of the books, but the language you prefer to use in the web interface. As you can see on http://translate.koha-community.org/am/310/, Amharic language translation is almost non-existent. But if you can use another language for the interface, then the answer is yes, Koha can catalog books written in any language. Regards, Bernardo -- Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel bgkriegel@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Dagne Woldie, MS/HS Library Assistant < dagne.woldie@icsaddis.edu.et> wrote:
If koha enable us to catalog Ethiopian collection. That books written in Amharic language.
Please if any one who has such experience. please, please/
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On 11/04/2013 13:08, Dagne Woldie, MS/HS Library Assistant wrote: <snip>
If koha enable us to catalog Ethiopian collection. That books written in Amharic language.
Please if any one who has such experience. please, please/ </snip>
There are two options you can use. Koha can use the unicode character set so therefore, you should be able to enter the characters in Amharic. There are various options for entering Unicode characters. The other option is to use what is called transliteration, as is done in most libraries. The Library of Congress uses this transliteration table http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/amharic.pdf. If you want to see if another library in Worldcat http://www.worldcat.org has already cataloged an item in Amharic, you will use these transliteration tables to search, e.g. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745610236 I am sure that other countries use other transliteration tables, but these are the ones that I know. I don't know anything about Amharic, though. -- *James Weinheimer* weinheimer.jim.l@gmail.com *First Thus* http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/ *Cooperative Cataloging Rules* http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ *Cataloging Matters Podcasts* http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html
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Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel -
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James Weinheimer