[Koha] Improving the advanced search form (Mason James)
Mason James
mtj at kohaaloha.com
Fri Oct 26 08:12:05 NZDT 2012
On 2012-10-26, at 1:07 AM, Sunil Kumar wrote:
> Dear James,
>
> Thanks for the input, but what about 3.6 version. Is there any solution for
> the same.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> R Sunil Kumar
> Library Technologist
i didn't test on koha 3.6
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> 2. Fwd: Koha Database Migration (Chris Nighswonger)
> 3. Re: need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words (Karam Qubsi)
> 4. Re: Improving the advanced search form (Mason James)
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> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:39:25 +0200
> From: mh_zalabany at hotmail.com <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>
> To: karamqubsi at gmail.com, "Koha" <Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>,
> Koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: Re: [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words
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> Hi karam
> I think this issue is very important to all users who use Arabic language We
> need to know what the important modifications in Zebra index And koha files
> to index the arabic words without suffix and prifex or searsh with root word
> using zebra
>
> I will give you example
> We need to search for word (al-madrasah) this mean school We have tow parts
> (al) mean (the)and (madrasah ) and the last caracter (h) may have tow forms(
> ? ? ) we need when we search for madrasa get madrasah and al-madrasah with
> all its forms Sent from my HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Karam Qubsi" <karamqubsi at gmail.com>
> To: "Koha" <Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>, <Koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> Subject: [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words
> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 11:12 am
>
>
> Hi All
>
> I sent this email to the zebra mailing list
>
> I wish that koha will support suffix and prefix in the arabic search by
> default in the future
>
> I wish if you have any Idea about the solution for this
>
> Best regards
> Karam.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:20 AM
> Subject: need help in transliterate rule
> To: zebralist at lists.indexdata.dk
>
>
> Hi all ,
> I'm new to zebra , and using it in "koha" ILS
>
> in the Arabic language there is some letter come before the words or after
> them these letters we don't need to index in our index I will give you an
> example :
> in English we can say : the car...
> in Arabic the same is : ???????
> if you note that the letter in Red is "the" and it's ignored in English
> search but in Arabic search we need the zebra to find every record that
> have " the word " or just "word" ?????? or ????
>
> so how to define that to zebra
>
> thanks a lot
> _______________________________________________
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> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:13:28 -0400
> From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: [Koha] Fwd: Koha Database Migration
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> Yesan,
>
> Please send your support requests to the Koha User's list. You will have a
> much greater chance of getting a response that way.
>
> You should be able to do an "in place" upgrade. After taking a backup of
> your current database, just install the new version of Koha and browse to
> the staff interface to run the installer. There is also at least one script
> you will need to run from the command line to remove the items from the
> bibs.
>
> Probably the best way is to move to the packages. I believe there is a way
> when installing from the packages to import your existing database. Check
> out koha-create for more on that. Also, I think the packages will run all of
> the necessary back-end scripts. Someone else will correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Read more here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris
>
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> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:58 AM
> Subject: Koha Database Migration
> To: paul.a at aandc.org
> Cc: cnighswonger at foundations.edu
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>
> Dear friends,
>
>
>
> I would like to know if you have got a solution to migrate my KOHA database
> 3.6 to 3.8. I know marc records export and import. But I would like to know
> if we can migrate the database itself.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
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> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:17:52 -0400
> From: Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi at gmail.com>
> To: "mh_zalabany at hotmail.com" <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>
> Cc: Koha <Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>,
> Koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: Re: [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words
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> Thanks Mohamed for give more description about our same problem
>
> I wish we can find a solution for this problem for all the users of koha in
> the Arab world
>
> while I'm searching i find something about the " ? ? ?" letters to
> considers them all as "? "
> and I find something about the suffix " ? ? "
>
> the solution is to edit the words-icu.xml file and add these lines :
>
> for ? ? ? :
> <transliterate rule=" [\u0623 \u0625 \u0622] > \u0627 " />
>
> and for the ? ? suffix add :
> <transliterate rule="? > ?"/>
>
> and for the ? ? suffix add :
> <transliterate rule=" ? > ? "/>
>
> I didn't try this I wish you try and tell me
>
> but about ignoring the ??? letters in words i didn't find how to do this
>
> I wish someone can help us about this
>
> best regards
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:39 AM, mh_zalabany at hotmail.com <
> mh_zalabany at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi karam
>> I think this issue is very important to all users who use Arabic
>> language We need to know what the important modifications in Zebra
>> index And koha files to index the arabic words without suffix and
>> prifex or searsh with root word using zebra
>>
>> I will give you example
>> We need to search for word (al-madrasah) this mean school We have tow
>> parts (al) mean (the)and (madrasah ) and the last caracter (h) may
>> have tow forms( ? ? ) we need when we search for madrasa get madrasah
>> and al-madrasah with all its forms Sent from my HTC
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Karam Qubsi" <karamqubsi at gmail.com>
>> To: "Koha" <Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>,
>> <Koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
>>>
>> Subject: [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words
>> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 11:12 am
>>
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I sent this email to the zebra mailing list
>>
>> I wish that koha will support suffix and prefix in the arabic search
>> by default in the future
>>
>> I wish if you have any Idea about the solution for this
>>
>> Best regards
>> Karam.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:20 AM
>> Subject: need help in transliterate rule
>> To: zebralist at lists.indexdata.dk
>>
>>
>> Hi all ,
>> I'm new to zebra , and using it in "koha" ILS
>>
>> in the Arabic language there is some letter come before the words or
>> after them these letters we don't need to index in our index I will
>> give you an example :
>> in English we can say : the car...
>> in Arabic the same is : ???????
>> if you note that the letter in Red is "the" and it's ignored in
>> English search but in Arabic search we need the zebra to find every
>> record that have " the word " or just "word" ?????? or ????
>>
>> so how to define that to zebra
>>
>> thanks a lot
>> _______________________________________________
>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
>>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:00:31 +1300
> From: Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com>
> To: sunil.kumar at ecoleglobal.com
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Improving the advanced search form
> Message-ID: <6A656B61-2350-4882-9E09-EEFFBEA910A5 at kohaaloha.com>
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>
> On 2012-10-25, at 5:27 PM, Sunil Kumar wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I agree with the same, I always had problem in advance search especially
> for
>> the barcode based search.
>>
>> Even if I select the barcode as search option and enter the specific
> barcode
>> number, Koha opac always show all the titles wherever that specific number
>> is entered. But other that the barcode number.
>
>
> hmm, i just tested this on Koha 3.8.5
>
> it works fine for me...
>
>
> ps: edit your email, before replying to digest messages
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>>
>> Is there any solution for the same?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>>
>> R Sunil Kumar
>> Library Technologist
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> koha-request at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Sent: 25 October 2012 09:53
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>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. Improving the advanced search form (Srikanth Dhondi)
>> 2. Re: Improving the advanced search form (Chris Cormack)
>> 3. Re: Improving the advanced search form (Gay Richards)
>> 4. Re: Data Migration (Dennis Njuguna) (Sunil Kumar)
>>
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:55:31 +1300
>> From: Srikanth Dhondi <srikanth at catalyst.net.nz>
>> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Subject: [Koha] Improving the advanced search form
>> Message-ID: <50889C13.9080505 at catalyst.net.nz>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am currently working on improving accessibility of koha opac site with
> our
>> accessibility expert.
>> One of the things we noticed is that the advanced search option is not
> only
>> confusing for blind users but also even for normal users.
>>
>> I have noticed the following issues with it:
>>
>> 1) By default the Fewer Options option is selected, which is not obvious
> to
>> the normal users until they click on More Options.
>>
>> 2) The layout could be a lot better, in particular the Fewer Options
> search
>> form is quite abstract in what it does.
>>
>> For example, the default boolean operator is AND which is not obvious to
>> even normal user.
>>
>> In my opinion, layout similar to the one http://kea.massey.ac.nz/search/X,
>> is better.
>>
>> Looking forward to your comments/feedback.
>>
>> Srikanth
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:03:21 +1300
>> From: Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>
>> To: Srikanth Dhondi <srikanth at catalyst.net.nz>
>> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Improving the advanced search form
>> Message-ID:
>> <CA+95qVR9P0U4Wynn2p0PWP3Wb37J+7SSiMu1xjvZs1kbq=9=nw at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>> On 25 October 2012 14:55, Srikanth Dhondi <srikanth at catalyst.net.nz>
> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am currently working on improving accessibility of koha opac site
>>> with our accessibility expert.
>>> One of the things we noticed is that the advanced search option is not
>>> only confusing for blind users but also even for normal users.
>>>
>>> I have noticed the following issues with it:
>>>
>>> 1) By default the Fewer Options option is selected, which is not
>>> obvious to the normal users until they click on More Options.
>>>
>>> 2) The layout could be a lot better, in particular the Fewer Options
>>> search form is quite abstract in what it does.
>>>
>>> For example, the default boolean operator is AND which is not obvious
>>> to even normal user.
>>>
>>> In my opinion, layout similar to the one
>>> http://kea.massey.ac.nz/search/X, is better.
>>>
>> I'm going to disagree and say that site is horrid :)
>>
>> Maybe others will have different opinions though.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:45:24 +0000
>> From: Gay Richards <g.richards at auckland.ac.nz>
>> To: 'Chris Cormack' <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>, Srikanth Dhondi
>> <srikanth at catalyst.net.nz>
>> Cc: "koha at lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Improving the advanced search form
>> Message-ID:
>>
>> <AB44DEB8CF4F784F90EBCDBBD9B817376D7E2714 at uxcn10-5.UoA.auckland.ac.nz>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Agree advanced search could and should be improved, but don't like example
>> suggested.
>>
>> I generallly like the "look: of the Koha advanced search page. The problem
>> (apart from any accessibility issues) is that some functions don't work as
>> one might expect - as outlined below. Also:
>>
>> We would like to turn off or limit languages to onees that are actually
>> available in our catalog.
>>
>> The Search for additional content types is really misleading as it relies
> on
>> codes from marc field 008 which may or may not have been used.
>> I'm sure I have other issues with this screen and I would be keen to
> discuss
>> any improvements further. We support anything that makes it more
> accessible
>> too. Gay
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Cormack
>> Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2012 3:03 p.m.
>> To: Srikanth Dhondi
>> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Improving the advanced search form
>>
>> On 25 October 2012 14:55, Srikanth Dhondi <srikanth at catalyst.net.nz>
> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am currently working on improving accessibility of koha opac site
>>> with our accessibility expert.
>>> One of the things we noticed is that the advanced search option is not
>>> only confusing for blind users but also even for normal users.
>>>
>>> I have noticed the following issues with it:
>>>
>>> 1) By default the Fewer Options option is selected, which is not
>>> obvious to the normal users until they click on More Options.
>>>
>>> 2) The layout could be a lot better, in particular the Fewer Options
>>> search form is quite abstract in what it does.
>>>
>>> For example, the default boolean operator is AND which is not obvious
>>> to even normal user.
>>>
>>> In my opinion, layout similar to the one
>>> http://kea.massey.ac.nz/search/X, is better.
>>>
>> I'm going to disagree and say that site is horrid :)
>>
>> Maybe others will have different opinions though.
>>
>> Chris
>> _______________________________________________
>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:52:23 +0530
>> From: "Sunil Kumar" <sunil.kumar at ecoleglobal.com>
>> To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Data Migration (Dennis Njuguna)
>> Message-ID: <000301cdb268$57b958c0$072c0a40$@kumar at ecoleglobal.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Dear Dennis,
>>
>> I believe you are missing MARC tag 952 series, 952 is the local tags which
>> contain all the information about the holding. For example.
>>
>> 952$8$9$a$b$c$g$h$p$y
>> $8 is for collection code
>> $9 is for biblio number
>> $a is for permanent location
>> $b is for current location
>> $c is for shelf location
>> $g is for purchase price (you can include the vendor name, location and
>> invoice details also here) $h is for volume details of the resources
> mainly
>> it is used for the journal/magazine/periodicals $p is for the barcode $y
> is
>> for the item type
>>
>> Once you have all the required information in 952 series you can convert
> the
>> file into marc format and upload the same to koha, as the standard
> process.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>>
>> R Sunil Kumar
>> Library Technologist
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of
>> koha-request at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Sent: 25 October 2012 03:21
>> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 84, Issue 45
>>
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>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. Re: Data Migration (Dennis Njuguna)
>> 2. Re: Data Migration (Mohamed zalabany)
>> 3. Problems upgrading to 3.8 (Ramon Andi?ach)
>> 4. Re: Problems upgrading to 3.8 (Hugo Agud)
>> 5. Email. (Estel Porras)
>> 6. Help needed with report - how to extract subtitle and
>> edition? (Elaine Bradtke)
>> 7. Re: Help needed with report - how to extract subtitle and
>> edition? (mh_zalabany at hotmail.com)
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:17:39 +0300
>> From: Dennis Njuguna <cknjuguna at gmail.com>
>> To: Mohamed zalabany <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>
>> Cc: koha list <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>, "manny_tamayao at sil.org"
>> <manny_tamayao at sil.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Data Migration
>> Message-ID:
>> <CAH0M1x-AbcrEvvzfvOL9oJ4nE7NMD0o4-UytqTUa0LfGxyOyAA at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> it is marc compliant, but when I take it to marcedit i view the file but I
>> cannot see/view the barcode, if I import the marc into koha I can only
>> import the biblios records, no holdings.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Mohamed zalabany
>> <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>> conversion from mandarin M3 will be easy if your version is supporting
>>> Marc 21 for holding you need to know what is the local field that the
>>> system uses to put the items information and edit the record by MARC
>>> edit to change the tag of the item field to
>>> (952) koha local field for item information
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *Mohamed El Zalabaitny*
>>> **
>>> *Integrated library systems consultant*
>>>
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>>> For Libraries and Information systems Development and support
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:08:09 +0300
>>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Data Migration
>>> From: cknjuguna at gmail.com
>>> To: mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>>> CC: manny_tamayao at sil.org; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Mohamed what about data migration from mandarin M3 especially
>>> the holdings?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Mohamed zalabany
>>> <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> i have a big experience in data conversion but unfortunately i don't
>>> know MAELISA library systemso could you tell us is the data is MARC
>>> format i what format and send me a sample of data
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mohamed El ZalabanyIntegrated library systems consultant
>>>
>>> Zalabany Knowledge Systems Team?
>>> For Libraries and Information systems Development and support
>>> mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>>> Mobile: 202-0111291444
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: manny_tamayao at sil.org
>>>> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:21:40 +0800
>>>> Subject: [Koha] Data Migration
>>>>
>>>> Good day to all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm Manny from Manila and in the process of data migration of the
>>>> library from "MAELISA" to KOHA.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyone who had done this process or has a script that may help?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Salamat
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Manny Tamayao
>>>>
>>>> Librarian/Archivist
>>>>
>>>> SIL Philippines
>>>>
>>>> skype: mannytamayao
>>>>
>>>> mobile: 09152822329
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Dennis K. Njuguna
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dennis K. Njuguna
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:38:15 +0000
>> From: Mohamed zalabany <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>
>> To: <cknjuguna at gmail.com>
>> Cc: koha list <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>, "manny_tamayao at sil.org"
>> <manny_tamayao at sil.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Data Migration
>> Message-ID: <BLU165-W49D11BF288626BB715E85597780 at phx.gbl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>>
>>
>> I think there is option to export item data with MARC record
>>
>>
>> Mohamed El ZalabanyIntegrated library systems consultant
>>
>> Zalabany Knowledge Systems Team?
>> For Libraries and Information systems Development and support
>> mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>> Mobile: 0111291444
>>
>>
>>
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:17:39 +0300
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Data Migration
>> From: cknjuguna at gmail.com
>> To: mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>> CC: manny_tamayao at sil.org; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>
>>
>> it is marc compliant, but when I take it to marcedit i view the file but I
>> cannot see/view the barcode, if I import the marc into koha I can only
>> import the biblios records, no holdings.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Mohamed zalabany
> <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello
>> conversion from mandarin M3 will be easy if your version is supporting
> Marc
>> 21 for holding you need to know what is the local field that the system
> uses
>> to put the items information and edit the record by MARC edit to change
> the
>> tag of the item field to (952) koha local field for item information
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mohamed El Zalabaitny
>> Integrated library systems consultant
>>
>> Zalabany Knowledge Systems Team?
>> For Libraries and Information systems Development and support
>>
>> mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>> Mobile: 0111291444
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:08:09 +0300
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Data Migration
>> From: cknjuguna at gmail.com
>> To: mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>>
>> CC: manny_tamayao at sil.org; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>
>> Hello Mohamed what about data migration from mandarin M3 especially the
>> holdings?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Mohamed zalabany
> <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> i have a big experience in data conversion but unfortunately i don't know
>> MAELISA library systemso could you tell us is the data is MARC format i
> what
>> format and send me a sample of data
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mohamed El ZalabanyIntegrated library systems consultant
>>
>>
>>
>> Zalabany Knowledge Systems Team?
>>
>> For Libraries and Information systems Development and support
>>
>> mh_zalabany at hotmail.com
>>
>> Mobile: 202-0111291444
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: manny_tamayao at sil.org
>>
>>> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:21:40 +0800
>>
>>> Subject: [Koha] Data Migration
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Good day to all,
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> I'm Manny from Manila and in the process of data migration of the
>>> library
>>
>>> from "MAELISA" to KOHA.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Is there anyone who had done this process or has a script that may help?
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Salamat
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Manny Tamayao
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Librarian/Archivist
>>
>>>
>>
>>> SIL Philippines
>>
>>>
>>
>>> skype: mannytamayao
>>
>>>
>>
>>> mobile: 09152822329
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org
>>
>>> Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>
>>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
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>>
>> Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>
>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dennis K. Njuguna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dennis K. Njuguna
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:46:00 +0800
>> From: Ramon Andi?ach <custard at westnet.com.au>
>> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Subject: [Koha] Problems upgrading to 3.8
>> Message-ID: <96D8A573-0DC3-478B-BA5C-CBD5FD9974A5 at westnet.com.au>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is going sound pathetic, and stupid, but I'm in need of some
> guidance.
>> It has been quite some time since I've tried to use koha.
>>
>> I've been upgrading my koha from 3.00 towards 3.8 via the tarball method.
>>
>> I was attempting to be good, and going in smallish steps so 3.00 to 3.02
> to
>> 3.04 to 3.06 and then to 3.8.
>>
>> In between each upgrade I was trying a few searches to make sure that the
>> books end of the db was intact and then backing up the DB.
>>
>> After the 3.06 step it seemed to be working.
>>
>> But, after the 3.8 step suddenly most of the books seem to have vanished.
>>
>> I'd put it down to noticing in the upgrade notes some extra steps that I
>> didn't see in the 3.6 or 3.4 notes (the ones about removing the duplicated
>> item details). So I dropped the DB and reloaded the backup from the 3.6
> step
>> and tried without these steps.
>>
>> I've also now tried the original backup too, without success.
>>
>> I'm not sure at this point if it's the items that have vanished or the
>> records too. Yes, I have run rebuild_zebra -b -r as the koha user (several
>> times no luck).
>>
>> So I suppose I'm looking for guidance on
>> a) working out what is going on.
>> b) how to get normality back again.
>>
>> -ramon.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:01:53 +0200
>> From: Hugo Agud <hagud at orex.es>
>> To: Ramon Andi?ach <custard at westnet.com.au>
>> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Problems upgrading to 3.8
>> Message-ID:
>> <CADT_QRTsaDrrye_Ux-To_JkjQZk=eT3QN_b1UEoEPSg1N_k64Q at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Hi Ramon
>>
>> Do not worry it happens to a lot of people ... take a look on this
>>
>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8665
>>
>> Kindest Regards
>>
>> 2012/10/24 Ramon Andi?ach <custard at westnet.com.au>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is going sound pathetic, and stupid, but I'm in need of some
>>> guidance. It has been quite some time since I've tried to use koha.
>>>
>>> I've been upgrading my koha from 3.00 towards 3.8 via the tarball method.
>>>
>>> I was attempting to be good, and going in smallish steps so 3.00 to
>>> 3.02 to 3.04 to 3.06 and then to 3.8.
>>>
>>> In between each upgrade I was trying a few searches to make sure that
>>> the books end of the db was intact and then backing up the DB.
>>>
>>> After the 3.06 step it seemed to be working.
>>>
>>> But, after the 3.8 step suddenly most of the books seem to have vanished.
>>>
>>> I'd put it down to noticing in the upgrade notes some extra steps that
>>> I didn't see in the 3.6 or 3.4 notes (the ones about removing the
>>> duplicated item details). So I dropped the DB and reloaded the backup
>>> from the 3.6 step and tried without these steps.
>>>
>>> I've also now tried the original backup too, without success.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure at this point if it's the items that have vanished or the
>>> records too. Yes, I have run rebuild_zebra -b -r as the koha user
>>> (several times no luck).
>>>
>>> So I suppose I'm looking for guidance on
>>> a) working out what is going on.
>>> b) how to get normality back again.
>>>
>>> -ramon.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Hugo Agud - Orex Digital *
>>
>> *www.orex.es*
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> Director
>>
>> Avenida Sarri? 29 ? 08029 Barcelona <http://twitter.com/OrexDigital>
>> :<http://orexsl.blogspot.com>hugoaguda - Tel: 93 539 40 70 Fax: 93 539
>> 33 30
>> hagud at orex.es ? http://www.orex.es/
>>
>>
>>
>> No imprima este mensaje a no ser que sea necesario. Una tonelada de papel
>> implica la tala de 15 ?rboles y el consumo de 250.000 litros de agua.
>>
>>
>>
>> Aviso de confidencialidad
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>> por error, por favor, notif?quenoslo inmediatamente y b?rrelo de su
> sistema.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Estel Porras <orlib at yahoo.com>
>> To: Koha community <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>> Subject: [Koha] Email.
>> Message-ID:
>> <1351098678.37956.YahooMailNeo at web125305.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>> Just wanted to thank all the very helpful folks here. You guys rock!
>>
>> ?
>> ?Have a great day, ~Estel~
>> Orland Free Library
>> 333 Mill St.
>> Orland CA. 95963
>> [530]865-1640
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:23:41 +0100
>> From: Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org>
>> To: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>> Subject: [Koha] Help needed with report - how to extract subtitle and
>> edition?
>> Message-ID:
>> <CAPdfUux1_GHutDqzKJrr-F+3DPU0fwCH8LYrfKiGmwtbEM5DHw at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> I'm trying to catch duplicate items in data before I upload it (ISBN won't
>> help in this case). In order to do that I've written a report to list the
>> books currently in Koha, and will compare them with my external files.
>> However, if I can't include the subtitle (MARC 245 b) I will get too many
>> false positives (we have lots of things with the same title, but different
>> subtitles)
>> It would also help if I could also have the 250 a (edition)
>>
>>
>> This is what I have:
>> SELECT
>>
>>
> biblio.biblionumber,biblio.author,biblio.title,biblio.copyrightdate,biblioit
>> ems.place,biblioitems.publishercode,biblioitems.isbn
>> FROM items
>> LEFT JOIN biblioitems on
>> (items.biblioitemnumber=biblioitems.biblioitemnumber)
>> LEFT JOIN biblio on (biblioitems.biblionumber=biblio.biblionumber)
>> WHERE items.itype='BK' AND items.holdingbranch='VWML'
>> ORDER BY biblio.author asc
>>
>>
>> This works fine, but doesn't include the 245 b or the 250 a Can anyone
>> help?
>> --
>> Elaine Bradtke
>> Data Wrangler
>> VWML
>> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp
>> House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
>> Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
>> Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send
> an
>> e-mail first. I work off site)
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Registered Company No. 297142
>> Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
>>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
>> --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:51:10 +0200
>> From: mh_zalabany at hotmail.com <mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>
>> To: eb at efdss.org,"koha" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Help needed with report - how to extract subtitle
>> and edition?
>> Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP34294835DD8881E4738D9DE97780 at phx.gbl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> I think in this case you need to make the report using the xml field in
>> biblio items table because the rest of sub fields you will find there
>>
>> Sent from my HTC
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Elaine Bradtke" <eb at efdss.org>
>> To: "koha" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>> Subject: [Koha] Help needed with report - how to extract subtitle and
>> edition?
>> Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2012 11:23 pm
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to catch duplicate items in data before I upload it (ISBN won't
>> help in this case). In order to do that I've written a report to list the
>> books currently in Koha, and will compare them with my external files.
>> However, if I can't include the subtitle (MARC 245 b) I will get too many
>> false positives (we have lots of things with the same title, but different
>> subtitles)
>> It would also help if I could also have the 250 a (edition)
>>
>>
>> This is what I have:
>> SELECT
>>
>>
> biblio.biblionumber,biblio.author,biblio.title,biblio.copyrightdate,biblioit
>> ems.place,biblioitems.publishercode,biblioitems.isbn
>> FROM items
>> LEFT JOIN biblioitems on
>> (items.biblioitemnumber=biblioitems.biblioitemnumber)
>> LEFT JOIN biblio on (biblioitems.biblionumber=biblio.biblionumber)
>> WHERE items.itype='BK' AND items.holdingbranch='VWML'
>> ORDER BY biblio.author asc
>>
>>
>> This works fine, but doesn't include the 245 b or the 250 a Can anyone
>> help?
>> --
>> Elaine Bradtke
>> Data Wrangler
>> VWML
>> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
>> Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
>> Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
>> Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send
>> an e-mail first. I work off site)
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Registered Company No. 297142
>> Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
>>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
>> --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
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