[Koha] integrating special collections

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Cody Hennesy <chennesy at cca.edu> wrote:
> We've just started looking at Koha for our library, and I ran across this
> promising bit from a press release: "In addition to its virtually
> unparalleled MARC support, Zebra will allow Koha to store any structured
> record format (email, XML, Dublin Core) opening new horizons for special
> collections. "  We're interested in integrating some of our archives and
> digital images collections into the catalog - are there any Koha libraries
> that have already done anything like this?  Is there any documentation or
> discussion that I should look at to give me a better idea of how this might
> work?  Everything I've found so far focuses on MARC.

I'm not sure if any libraries have done this with Koha already, but
Zebra can index XML documents of any schema using its DOM XML filter.
For a technical description of that capability, you can check the
Zebra documentation at
http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/doc/record-model-domxml.tkl.

Koha would require some additional development to store and edit
metadata in an arbitrary XML format, but some of the basic framework
required is in place or will be added soon.  For example, there is an
experimental feature to use XSL stylesheets to format the display of
MARC XML bib records in the OPAC, and that could be extended to format
other XML metadata types.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
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