[Koha] Question re TOCs and other digital content

Fri Sep 9 03:33:14 NZST 2022

Hi, Anke!

My perspective on this is that Koha isn't a digital collections platform as such--being a catalog, so there are places in the catalog record to put the Table of Contents (in MARC21 the 505 field), an abstract (in MARC21 the 520), etc.  I don't think that it would work well to try to turn it into a digital collections platform that allowed keyword searching _within_ all the uploaded files attached to the bibliographic or item records.  Of course, I'm a cataloger, so I see that Koha offers speedy searching efficiency and effectiveness--curated search terms placed in the authority controlled fields, generously supplied tables of contents, abstracts, summary notes, etc., and use of tagging for user participation to create folksonomies, etc.

Digital collections platforms like archive.org, HathiTrust.org, ContentDM, Google Books, etc., are very different.  They operate, to me, like the access offered to collections by, for example, periodical indexes.  I'm not sure it would strengthen Koha to try to stretch its functioning into a combo library-integrated-system/digital-collections-platform to that degree.  I would ask, are the attached digital items represented in relevant periodical and book indexes?  If not, why not, and can they be?  But I am, indeed, a cataloger.:)

Cheerio!
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Hello again,

as far as we know, Koha provides no possibility to index uploaded files,
e.g. pdfs containing a table of content, an abstract, or a full text.

As this info isn't so very recent, perhaps there has been development in
this area that we aren't aware of? I checked the documentation, but couldn't
really find anything.

Thanks for updating me on this issue in advance!

Regards,
Anke

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