[Koha] Quick Poll: Who uses COiNS/ OpenURL in the opac search results?

[Ian Walls]

Thank you, everyone, for the feedback!

So, what I'm hearing is that COiNS in the search results is definitely a
feature worth keeping, as lots of folks are making use of it with tools like
Zotero.  Good to know.

I'm half-way through writing a patch that will add a system preference so
you can choose whether you want to continue to use COiNS on the OPAC search
results page (will not affect any other page, like opac-details.pl), or
remove them in favour of a faster search.  The default value will be "Use",
so the default behaviour will remain the same. More choices = more power to
the user!


-Ian

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:

> We also encourage our patrons to use Zotero.  Personally I use it
> (Zotero) myself, constantly, for my other job.
> Elaine
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know that academic libraries point out to their patrons that there
> > is Zotero integration (much smoother than the Refworks or Endnote way
> > of doing things). If we were to remove it it should be a preference
> > for people to turn on because having Zotero integration is a big deal
> > to research libraries (and to me personally).
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> > 2011/3/25 Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>:
> >> Community,
> >>
> >>
> >> Did you know that Koha automatically parses the bibliographic records it
> >> returns with a search, and gives you a COiNS/OpenURL/Z39.88 span that
> >> bibliographic utilities can pick up on?  I did, but I've never had call
> to
> >> use it.
> >>
> >> Does anyone out there make use of this feature, or teach their patrons
> to?
> >>
> >> I ask, because it's a very expensive feature, resource-wise, and if it's
> not
> >> commonly used, it may be best to be something we enable/disable with a
> >> system preference.
> >>
> >> I've filed a bug report for this
> >> (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5957), and
> will be
> >> working on a patch, if the community feels this is worth the effort.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >>
> >> -Ian
> >>
> >> --
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Ian Walls
Lead Development Specialist
ByWater Solutions
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http://bywatersolutions.com
ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
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