[Koha] Another Library using Koha online!

[Witoszynskyj Stephan]

Hi,

thanks!

Just in case somebody is interested: a very helpful resource was https://sometimesmotion.wordpress.com/ Basically, the jQuery tricks I use to integrate our web-site into Koha are based on the info I found on this site. Btw. I think it would be really cool if Koha’s OPACmainUserBlock gets more flexible in the future. Maybe allowing some sort plugin system. IMHO the jQuery solution is working, but it is an awful hack. :-)

Katrin Fischer helped me to solve the multilingual web-interface by answering my questions on this list. http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2014-September/040807.html

The word cloud containing the authors is based on http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/a-wordcloud-in-python.html While the cloud generated by this code is an image, the sentence "PS: yes, this doesn't generate css / html4. But as you get the text sizes and positions, it should be easy to use this as a backend to generate a html page.“ got me working on the code. Well, the solution is a bit of a hack and not perfect, but it’s kind of working. So, if someone is interested in the code, let me know.

The slide show uses Jssor http://www.jssor.com/ which is extremely flexible and let you use almost any kind of HTML code in a slide.

Finally, I wrote some cronjobs that create the pages/slides containing newly acquired and newly catalogued books and the list of authors (using the Lingua::Translit perl module http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Translit/ for automatic transliteration of authors in cyrillic script) and the respective word cloud.

I already have another little project in mind that I would like to work on as soon time permits (as I mentioned my focus will be on cataloguing and a few things in our Koha configuration still needs some attention). So, what I would like to develop is a cronjob that regularly posts newly acquired/catalogued books to our library's Facebook page. I did some research on this already and it shouldn’t be too hard to implement.

Cheers,
  Stephan

Am 02.02.2015 um 15:49 schrieb Jesse Lambertson <jlambertson at sqcc.org>:

> Stephan,
> 
> That looks great.
> 
> Thank you for sharing.
> 
> It's good for me to see the variations of KOHA in use.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jesse
> 
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Witoszynskyj Stephan <stephan at wito.org> wrote:
> Dear Koha Community,
> 
> Our Koha installation is now online! We are a small Ukrainian greek-catholic parish library located in Vienna, Austria. We started using Koha about a year ago and, finally, managed to get a public server and migrated our installation to this server.
> 
> At the same time we integrated our web-page into our Koha installation to provide our users a seamless user experience. The goal was to present our catalogue in a way that makes it also accessible to readers who are not used using electronic catalogues.
> 
> I wish to thank everyone in the Koha community who provided help, either by answering my questions on this lists or by creating all those amazing resources one can find on the web (video tutorials, blogs, the Koha wiki, …). All those things make Koha great and fun to work with.
> 
> Please, visit our site and let me know your comments and feedback. The URL is http://library.st-barbara-austria.org/
> 
> Of course, we would be happy to be added to the list of Koha users on the Koha web-site:
> Public Library of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Parish St. Barbara, Vienna, Austria
> http://library.st-barbara-austria.org/
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   Stephan Witoszynskyj
> 
> ps: currently, we have only a fraction of our books in our catalogue. So don’t be surprised, that the catalogue is rather small. Cataloguing will be our main focus for the next months.
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