[Koha] ByWater Solutions and Software.coop Collaborating on Koha EDI Support

[Ian Walls]

Dear Koha Community,


It is our pleasure to announce that software.coop of Somerset, England and
ByWater
Solutions LLC of Santa Barbara CA, USA, are partnering to bring Electronic
Data
Exchange (EDI) to Koha.

EDI will greatly increase the functionality of the acquisitions module of
Koha by
allowing a direct electronic exchange from one entity to another, making
processes such
as billing and the transmission of purchase orders seamless. It may
optionally accept
bibliographic records from a vendor, making cataloguing quicker. It was
described in the
journal "Program: electronic library and information systems" Vol. 44 No. 3,
2010.

The EDI code, which was written by software.coop, will be rebased by ByWater
Solutions on the current head of the Koha project. The rebased code will be
submitted for
possible inclusion in the 3.4 release of Koha.


Cheers,

-Ian

-- 
Ian Walls
Lead Development Specialist
ByWater Solutions
Phone # (888) 900-8944
http://bywatersolutions.com
ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
Twitter: @sekjal
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