[Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Koha as Doc Man System

[King, Fred]

Take a look at my MedStar Authors Catalog, at http://medstarauthors.org. It's probably not what you're looking for, but it might give you some ideas. I've taken Medline citations (a database of medical literature from the National Library of Medicine) for journal articles our staff have written, converted them to MARC records, and fitted them into a Koha system. For copyright reasons I can't store the records on that system, but I have the 856$u field pointing to the article that we can access within our network, and the 857$u pointing to the DOI. They're usually the same now, but some publishers (Wolters Kluwer/Ovid, for example) still have two different ways of getting to the documents.

What, your system doesn't have an 857 field? Well mine does. Koha is infinitely configurable. 😊

Fred King, AHIP
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6670
ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279
MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org

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You would need to clarify what you mean by "docs management system". 

If you're referring to a system as described by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system, then I would say no. Koha isn't a records management system nor is it a digital library. 

Koha is an integrated library system / library management system, which works by storing and indexing metadata about resources (e.g. books, DVDs, journal articles, et cetera). It doesn't store the resources themselves. There is some basic capacity to store arbitrary files in Koha, but not as sophisticated as you'd find in a document/record management system or digital asset management system. 

Of course, Koha is open source, so a person could always build document management functionality into Koha. 

But I would say it's not viable at present without work.

David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia

Office: 02 9212 0899
Online: 02 8005 0595

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:51:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: Esmael Wan <opensistem at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Koha] Koha as Doc Man System
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Is it viable to consider Koha as a docs management system ?
Regards
Akla Esmael




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