[Koha] OAI-PMH Setup

[Coehoorn, Joel]

Part 2

We also need to give them z39.50 access to accurately show current shelving
status of individual items. I believe our Koha installation is still using
Zebra for this, so we should have a z39.50 service already working. I am
able to handle port forwards through our external firewall without issue,
but I need to know what to forward, and what kind of authentication
information they will need. Any help is appreciated.


*Joel Coehoorn*
Director of Information Technology
*York University*
Office: 402-363-5603 | jcoehoorn at york.edu | york.edu



On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 4:19 PM Coehoorn, Joel <jcoehoorn at york.edu> wrote:

> We're working with EBSCO to try to make our Koha catalog details available
> as part of their discovery service for our students, so search results can
> show our holdings along side items from places like Academic Search Premier.
>
> I can access our OAI-PMH data and see the OAI-PMH service is working in
> our Koha installation, and I can even find records by biblionumber.
> However, in order for EBSCO to ingest this information, they need to know a
> few things:
>
> First, they need a URL into our OPAC that can identify a record, so they
> can link users to our catalog. Normally I would suggest this:
>
>
> https://catalog.york.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber={biblionumber}
>
> But then for #2, they need to know where in the marc data to find the
> biblio number to complete the template for individual records. From what I
> can see, this item is *not included* in the marc data. Rather, it's an
> internal number that Koha only stores in the MySQL database.
>
> How are others handling this?
>
> *Joel Coehoorn*
> Director of Information Technology
> *York University*
> Office: 402-363-5603 | jcoehoorn at york.edu | york.edu
>
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>
>
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