[Koha] Introducing "Mana" (central DB project)

[Sebastian Hierl]

Congratulations and looking forward!

Sebastian
On Jul 10, 2016 9:26 AM, "Arslan Farooq" <arslanone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations Paul, BibLibre, Morgane !
>
> This will be great :-)
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Some months ago I sent an email to koha-devel, to announce that BibLibre
> > was planning to work on a new project, dedicated to sharing informations
> > between Koha (
> > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SharingDatasBetweenKohas_rfc).
> >
> > I'm proud an happy to give you feedback about this project: things are
> > moving quickly & nicely.
> >
> >  * *Morgane*, our intern -alex_a being the tutor) is doing a great job
> > (you can congratulate her on #koha ;-) )
> >  * we've named this project "*Mana*". It's a Maori word (once again :D),
> > easy to pronounce & write.
> > http://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?&keywords=mana : "*(verb)* to be
> > legal, effectual, binding, authoritative, valid." I'll ask for
> > mana.koha-community.org DNS entry soon !
> >  * as announced by Morgane, we're using the same framework as for HEA for
> > the server side. The code is available on our git:
> > http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-mana (will be pushed later on
> > git.koha-community.org). The DB is here, some webservice are already
> here
> > & working.
> >  * The koha-side is being worked, below are some screen shots.
> >  * we changed some things compared to my initial RFC. Everything is on
> > trello, splitted into cards (https://trello.com/b/BslL6i9p/mana-biblibre
> > trello not public, claire, the owner is not here today, we'll change the
> > status in a day or 2.) Note that there can be some French on trello, even
> > if Morgane avoid it.
> > We plan to have MANA working at the end of august, at least for
> > subscriptions (pattern & numbering) sharing. Maybe also for SQL reports &
> > vendors.
> >
> > Some screen shots & features descriptions:
> >
> >  in subscription management, you can now *share* a subscription pattern,
> > by sending it to Mana:
> >
> > When you click on "share", after validation, you get a *feedback*:
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone can then retrieve the numbering pattern & frequency calculation
> > when creating a subscription (work being done this week). After the 1st
> > screen of subscription creation, Koha will automatically query mana and
> > check if there is some data available:
> >
> >
> > The librarian will then be able to see what is available and get it
> > locally in one click.
> > Every time a librarian "get it locally", a counter will be incremented on
> > Mana. Thus, if more than 1 frequency/pattern is submitted for a given
> > title, the librarians should be able to see which one is "preferred" by
> > other librarians.
> >
> > Additional features:
> >  * we will create a script that will help populate Mana from a CSV. We
> > will probably issue a RFF ("Request For File" ;-) ) later. Our idea is
> that
> > we want to launch Mana with many data already available.
> >  * comment. Any librarian will be able to add a comment to a shared data,
> > as well as marking it as "obsolete".
> >  * a syspref will be added to deactivate Mana (will be ON by default)
> >
> > Feel free to ask for more informations, I would be happy to answer !
> >
> > --
> > Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
> > BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques
> > BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries
> >
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