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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>BibLibre is working on a project, called mana [1]. This project
will try to build a global knowledge base for library data. It
will be partly tighten to Koha, and partly not.</p>
<p>For every data on Mana, we will provide micro-services (RESTFUL
API) to :</p>
<ul>
<li>query the kb and retrieve data</li>
<li>push data into the kb<br>
</li>
<li>let mana users declare a given data outdated or wrong.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For now, mana handle:</p>
<ul>
<li>subscriptions models: a weekly serial is weekly for everyone.
With Mana, Koha users (and possibly other ILSes) will be able to
quickly prepare their subscription management.<br>
</li>
<li>reports. This is 100% Koha tighten, because it's related to
sharing SQL queries. But that will be very useful for all Koha
libraries to share and quickly retrieve SQL they can run in a
few click on their local DB.</li>
</ul>
<p>We are also developing an interface to clean mana-kb data.<br>
</p>
<p>In the next weeks we will add social data: "give me an ISBN, I'll
give you user reviews, user tags, user rankings". This will not be
tighten to Koha at all, even if we will implement the mechanism
within Koha. There are many many other data that could be stored
in this KB:</p>
<ul>
<li>kbart and ONIX-PL files for electronic resources</li>
<li>vendors/contact </li>
<li>"patron that read this also read that"<br>
</li>
<li>It could even include bibliographic data ? [although it would
probably result in a huge DB, out of scope for now]</li>
<li>some specific Koha setups (libraries can add some tweaking to
Koha, using JavaScript. We could have a DB of tweaks)<br>
</li>
</ul>
I presented this project yesterday during the hackfest. People were
quite enthusiastic ;-)<br>
The first bug should be ready to be signed-off in the next days
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17047">https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17047</a>)<br>
<br>
BibLibre is willing to host the mana server, I propose to use a
sub-domain of koha-community.org. Could we have
mana-kb.koha-community.org and mana-test.koha-community.org defined
and pointing to 91.121.55.79 ? That would be very helpful to signoff
patches.<br>
Also note that we're already filling the database with subscriptions
informations coming from our customers. If you want to add your
existing data, drop me an email, I'll send you the SQL you must run
on your Koha to create a CSV file that we can easily import into
Mana-kb.<br>
<br>
[1] why mana ? It's a Maori word meaning "authoritative, valid,
prestige" (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?keywords=mana">http://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?keywords=mana</a>)<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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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