[Koha] document manager or digital library

[Russel Garlick]

Hi Pedro,

There is no feature in Koha to upload a pdf directly. But the beauty of 
open source is that you can bend Koha to your will.

Here at Katipo we have done this for our clients by hooking up our CMS 
to Koha and bending the URL field. Note these are non MARC setups.

Here is an example in action

http://library.lgnz.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=3527

The librarian uploads the PDF through a custom interface in the CMS. 
This gets the PDF on to the website. Then they are taken through to Koha 
to catalogue the item.

We find it works quite well. Whilst full searching of the PDF may be 
desirable, most of the time we have found that it it is better to 
catalogue the PDF so that you can have more control over how it appears 
in search results. So Koha was perfect for this.

We find it works well as a library of digital resources less good as a 
document manager (but that is more due to our CMS than Koha:-)

If you are looking for good digital library software (as opposed to our 
idea for a library of digital resources) check out Greenstone - 
www.greenstone.org/

Cheers
Russel

Pedro Maia wrote:
> Hello i'm new at Koha and if anyone could help me i appreciate. I've 
> installed Koha 2.2 and one of the features that i am most interested is 
> the possibility to function as a document manager or digital library. I 
> just don't see how can i do that. I still didn't figure how can i insert 
> for instance a "pdf" document into the database. Can anyone give a clue 
> for i can start studying this feature because i'm a little "lost" at 
> this moment. Thank you very much.
>  
> *Pedro Maia*
> Centro de Informação e Documentação
> Instituto de Informática do Ministério das Finanças e da Administração 
> Pública
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> tel: +351 214723295 
> e-mail: pedro.maia at inst-informatica.pt 
> <mailto:pedro.maia at inst-informatica.pt>
> PORTUGAL
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