Friends, I recently had a guy from UNESCO ask me if future releases of Koha would have "Greenstone-like features". I think he wants his ILS and his digital library in one single app. I immediately said, "I don't think so." But then I thought, zebra is a pretty powerful text indexing engine and most of the files in my digital library are text pdfs (they have been OCRed). Is there some potential to use koha3/zebra as a greenstone replacement? -cht Chris Hammond-Thrasher MLIS CISSP Library Systems Manager University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji +679 3232233 hammondthrasher_c@usp.ac.fj
On 25/04/2007, at 4:39 PM, Chris Hammond-Thrasher wrote:
Friends,
I recently had a guy from UNESCO ask me if future releases of Koha would have “Greenstone-like features”. I think he wants his ILS and his digital library in one single app. I immediately said, “I don’t think so.” But then I thought, zebra is a pretty powerful text indexing engine and most of the files in my digital library are text pdfs (they have been OCRed). Is there some potential to use koha3/zebra as a greenstone replacement?
Hi Chris No I dont think so, there are lots and lots of very capable digital library systems. Greenstone, Kete, Keystone etc. I think work allowing for easy integration of Koha with a digital library system would be a far more productive use of resources. Chris -- Chris Cormack chris.cormack@liblime.com VP Research and Development www.liblime.com LibLime +64 21 542 131
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