[Koha] Google Apps

[James Weinheimer]

Sorry I wasn't specfic enough. I was thinking of the Google App Engine
hosting project that they have just initiated. Andrew Seguin corrected this
for me. Thanks.

 

It could be interesting. Currently, they say everything must be written in
Python but that they will add other languges as well.

 

Jim

 

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From: Joe Atzberger [mailto:ohiocore at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:45 PM
To: j.weinheimer at aur.edu
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Google Apps

 

Jim --

As one who has been using Google Apps for several years, including
company-wide at LibLime, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.
You seem to be thinking of Google hosting Koha as an application.  Yours is,
as far as I know, the first such suggestion.  In fact, I don't know of
Google hosting any software that wasn't produced in house.

There are several areas of development at Google relevant to libraries,
foremost the new Google Book Services featuring an incredibly broad catalog
of scanned book images, including covers and searchable OCR text.  Some Koha
users have made use of this content already.  Other coders have integrated
Google Calendar widgets into their OPAC for displaying scheduled library
events. But these are far removed from running an actual ILS.  

I too would love for the ILS's (and most other services) that I admin to be
hosted on Google's massive data grid, but I don't foresee that happening in
the next decade... at which point Koha server should be running on my
cellphone. :)

--Joe Atzberger

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer at aur.edu> wrote:

All,

Now that Google Apps has appeared (just!), does anybody see any Koha-type
applications? Right now, everything on Google Apps must be in python, but
could local libraries run their Koha catalogs on Google, thereby saving
themselves a lot of bother?

James Weinheimer
The American University of Rome

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