[Koha] A couple Koha acquisitions questions

Jonathan Druart jonathan.druart at biblibre.com
Wed Dec 5 21:50:58 NZDT 2012


Hello Mathieu,

Please have a look at the Bug 7180. I introduce this mapping when ordering
from an import in iso2709.

Regards,
Jonathan


2012/12/4 Mathieu Saby <mathieu.saby at univ-rennes2.fr>

> Hello
> A mapping of 9XX fields in MARC files imported to create orders could be
> an interesting feature.
>
> For example, in France, some libaries use the website of the main
> commercial record provider (Electre) to define acquisition information
> (quantity, price, discount, statistic codes...) in 9XX fields of exported
> records, and some ILS can manage these informations automatically when
> records are imported (in iso2709).
>
> This is how it looks in the record provider website :
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> And, just for an example, this is how looks the tool used for this mapping
> records in Horizon ILS
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> Regards,
>
> M. Saby
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> Ann-Marie Breaux a écrit :
>
>> Thank you for this information, Magnus. I guess that for now, libraries
>> are either doublekeying orders between the book vendor system and Koha, or
>> else send e-mail or printed orders to the book vendor.
>> In any event, YBP would be interested in testing either EDI or embedded
>> order data (acquisitions data in 9xx MARC fields) if the community decides
>> to pursue it.
>> Best regards,
>> Ann-Marie
>>
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>> On 3 December 2012 21:47, Ann-Marie Breaux <ABreaux at ybp.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> YBP is a book wholesaler for academic libraries. We have several
>>> libraries now using Koha as their ILS. The acquisitions functionality seems
>>> a little light, and less integrated than we have with other systems. Could
>>> you confirm the following for me?
>>>
>>>
>>> 1.    Is there any EDI functionality in Koha yet? Can libraries send
>>> EDIFACT Orders and/or receive EDIFACT POAs or Invoices?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There are a couple of bug reports related to this:
>>
>> Bug 7736 - Edifact QUOTE and ORDER functionality
>> http://bugs.koha-community.**org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=**7736<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7736>
>>
>> Bug 2443 - Acquisitions by EDIFACT
>> http://bugs.koha-community.**org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=**2443<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2443>
>>
>> The first one has a status of "Failed QA", which means someone
>> implemented it, but it is temporarily stuck in the Quality Assurance
>> stage of development. I am not sure of the state of the second one.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2.    If a library has placed an order in the book vendor's online
>>> system, is there any way to load that order information into Koha without
>>> rekeying? Some systems we work with can accept acquisitions data in 9xx
>>> MARC fields to populate into an order record automatically.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There is an API described here:
>> http://wiki.koha-community.**org/wiki/Koha_/svc/_HTTP_API<http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_/svc/_HTTP_API>
>> that should let you enter bibliographic records into Koha, given the
>> right username/password. This would create a record, but not an order
>> in the aquisitions module. I have a client that is interested in
>> adding functionality to Koha that would place records added in this
>> way in a queue, alert librarians to the presence of new records and
>> make it easy to attach newly added records to orders in the
>> aqusistions module. This development is in the early stages of being
>> sketched out, but if anyone else is interested in similar
>> functionality please let us know.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Magnus Enger
>> libriotech.no
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