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<p>Hello Koha & Coral lists,<br>
</p>
<p>I'm happy and proud to announce that in the next 3 months,
Matthias will work full time on Coral <> Koha interface.</p>
<p>He can be dedicated to this task thanks to 3 companies that
joined their strength and money to make this possible: Ebsco
(45%), BibLibre (40%) and ByWaterSolutions (15%)</p>
<p>He will start by playing the new features and installer of Coral
2.0. Then he will improve the specs I've written (and already sent
to some/most of you. If you want them, just ask). Then he will
code. <br>
</p>
<p>Things he will work on :</p>
<ul>
<li>rebase the Coral <> gokb interface and officially submit
it for inclusion into Coral. That will be a first step and
framework for later inclusion of Ebsco KB.</li>
<li>work on linking Coral and Koha acquisitions modules: share
organizations/vendors, budgets, create basket in Koha from a
given Coral acquisition workflow, share bibliographic records
when relevent.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Some general guidelines we will follow:<br>
<p>Coral:</p>
<ul>
<li>we will keep things as ILS-agnostic as possible. It means we
will use webservices, and never access the Koha DB from Coral</li>
<li>Every "linked" feature will be activated through the
configurations files. If not activated, Coral users will see no
change. That's important for "Coral without Koha"</li>
<li>We will have to add some fields to store the links between ILS
and Coral data.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Koha:</p>
<ul>
<li>We will mostly add webservices (restful, of course), related
to acquisition (vendors, budget, baskets, ...).</li>
<li>We will have to add some fields to store the links between
Koha and Coral data.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Hopefully, at the end of those 3 months, we should have a working
version 1, not complete, that could be improved for an easier use.
Our long term goal is to have a fully integrated solution.<br>
</p>
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Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques
BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries</pre>
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