[Koha] Question re TOCs and other digital content

Fri Sep 9 19:53:25 NZST 2022

Hi h2,

thank you very much for your thoughts.

My intention - as a syslib and sysadmin, not a cataloger myself - is not to turn Koha into a DAM, but rather, at my clients' request, watch out for possibilities of catalog enhancement. They are used, from their legacy ILS, to having the possibility to store their TOCs and abstracts in pdf files - which may come from their vendors or library consortia - and which can be full text indexed within the ILS, allowing to be searched without the cataloger having to copy and paste the text into a MARC field. And yes, when the legacy ILS had this feature newly added, there were indeed some qualms that the ILS might be mistaken for a fully fledged Digital Asset Management Tool, but librarians were well aware of this, and have been using the tool for catalog enhancement only.

I meanwhile received a private answer to my question pointing me to ElasticSearch which should be able to search pdfs. So this might be the road to explore, as we are still on Zebra, but will consider a switch to ElasticSearch. Has anybody experiences in this direction?

Best regards, and a good weekend to everybody!
Anke

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Hernandez, Heather H <Heather_Hernandez at nps.gov>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. September 2022 17:33
> An: Bruns, Anke <Anke.Bruns at gwdg.de>; Koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Betreff: Re: [Koha] Question re TOCs and other digital content
> 
> Hi, Anke!
> 
> My perspective on this is that Koha isn't a digital collections platform as such--
> being a catalog, so there are places in the catalog record to put the Table of
> Contents (in MARC21 the 505 field), an abstract (in MARC21 the 520), etc.  I
> don't think that it would work well to try to turn it into a digital collections
> platform that allowed keyword searching _within_ all the uploaded files
> attached to the bibliographic or item records.  Of course, I'm a cataloger, so I
> see that Koha offers speedy searching efficiency and effectiveness--curated
> search terms placed in the authority controlled fields, generously supplied
> tables of contents, abstracts, summary notes, etc., and use of tagging for user
> participation to create folksonomies, etc.
> 
> Digital collections platforms like archive.org, HathiTrust.org, ContentDM,
> Google Books, etc., are very different.  They operate, to me, like the access
> offered to collections by, for example, periodical indexes.  I'm not sure it would
> strengthen Koha to try to stretch its functioning into a combo library-
> integrated-system/digital-collections-platform to that degree.  I would ask, are
> the attached digital items represented in relevant periodical and book indexes?
> If not, why not, and can they be?  But I am, indeed, a cataloger.:)
> 
> Cheerio!
> h2
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> Hello again,
> 
> as far as we know, Koha provides no possibility to index uploaded files,
> e.g. pdfs containing a table of content, an abstract, or a full text.
> 
> As this info isn't so very recent, perhaps there has been development in
> this area that we aren't aware of? I checked the documentation, but couldn't
> really find anything.
> 
> Thanks for updating me on this issue in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Anke
> 
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