May 2004 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

News from the CVS (future Koha 2.2)
by paul POULAIN 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi everybody, Some news of the CVS version, that will become version 2.2 (in September, wait for december for libraries that want something heavily tested). What's already done : * MARC search merged with non-MARC search. It's really more easy to use with 1 form only ! You can also order the result (by title, author, dewey, publisher, publicationyear) * Search tools have been reworked. Search on Nelsonville DB (140 000 biblios, 290 000 items) is instantaneous for searchs with a few results. The search needs some seconds when there is a lot of results. We will probably limit the number of results to 200. * The OPAC search and the librarian search have been merged. In 2.0, we sometimes had differents results, that was really not funny ;-) * Some improvements have been realised in members interface. It's mostly code reorganizing, the user should see only a few differences. * Nelsonville did a few changes on z3950 servers. * Issuing rules : the code for issuing has been completly reorganized/rewritten. The 1st goal is to be able to have issuing max & length defined for a given branch / item type / borrower type. The 2nd goal is to have a clear & documented code to be able to modify it easily. So a library with really specific rules should be able to add it's own in Koha. * The librarian interface produces better HTML code. Almost XHMLT compliant. What is decided & affected : * Cataloguing framework : a great improvement !!! In 2.2, the library will be able to define a MARC framework for each itemtype. You will be able to define a MARC form for monography, one for serials, one for CD, multimedia... Each framework will have it's own cataloguing rules. Really a great improvement !!! And fully compatible with 2.0 database * MARC authority : in Koha 2.0, authorities are poorly handled. In 2.2, full MARC support will be provided. * export of biblios in OPAC in iso2709 or human readable form, to a mail address, or by http download. * Serial module : subscribing, cataloguing... serials. important notes : * for MARC authority, functionnal needs are specified for UNIMARC. We will need some help to validate it for MARC21 too. * all the decided & affected feature described in this mail are funded by "Ecole des Mines de Paris". Either by direct funding, or through a developper they have hired, since May, 1st, for 4-6 months. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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CVS & search & OPAC css theme
by paul POULAIN 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi, The MARC search has been ported to OPAC in CVS-HEAD. Some fixes have been done too. It works fine, pls test it & report any problem. IMPORTANT NOTE : The OPAC theme has been set to "css" by default in the installer. This will be the default theme in 2.2, so improvements of OPAC are done here & only here. CSS theme has a lot of advantages : * css compliant * 100% translatable * no text-images. If you plan to test CVS with a copy of a working DB, don't forget to set opactheme=css in systemprefs. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Is MARC support in Koha only partial?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi list, I just saw the following web page: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html ... and I am thinking to myself that perhaps Koha doesn't support all the fields, subfields and indicators that are present in MARC21. I base my assumption on the fact that marc_tag_structure and marc_subfield_structure tables do not have them all there. Would it be right to assume that if those tables had all the fields with indicators and subfields that MARC21 specification includes then we would be able to create an input form to properly catalog new bibliographic records for later exporting them into iso-2709 file? Useful for sharing bibliographic records with other libraries. Benedict

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FASD project: Online survey launched
by Benno Luthiger 05 May '04

05 May '04

Dear Open Source developer I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate. You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it. With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development. With many thanks for your participation, Benno Luthiger PS: The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/. We have set up the mailing list fasd(a)webboard.ethz.ch for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_de.html for registration to this mailing list. _______________________________________________________________________ Benno Luthiger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 8092 Zurich Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch _______________________________________________________________________

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MarcKohaMap - please help.
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hi all, Koha-2.0 seems to be shipped with some fields not set (could be my impression only). I have setup a page on the wiki. Could I ask anybody to have a look at it and correct the wiki page for me? http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?action=save&page=SposobyMapo… Once ready it could replace the current page (http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=MarcKohaMap) which seems outdated. You only need to look for a couple of things there. Please, pay particular attention to biblionember, biblioitemnumber and itemnumber. I've messed up something and forgot how they should be mapped. See also whether these are OK: biblioitems: 852 h - classification 852 k OR 300 f - itemtype 022 a OR 440 x - issn 082 a OR 852 k - dewey 260 c - publicationyear 700 a,b,c,d OR 300 b - illus notes 500 a (maybe set $3 to 'biblioitems'?) - what does it mean? 245 f - copyrightdate volumedate volumeddesc timestamp marc - are they mapped to anything? items: Tag 876 does it exist or is used? Tag 506 does it exist or is used? Thank you for any input on that. Benedict

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major commit in circulation module CVS/HEAD
by paul POULAIN 03 May '04

03 May '04

Copy/paste of commit notes : CIRCULATION : the big rewrite... This 1st commit reorders deeply the circulation module. The goal is to : * have something 100% templated/translatable. * have something easy to read & modify, to say to customers/users : you can define your circulation rules as you want if you accept to look in C4/Circ/Circ2.pm The circulation now works : 1=> ask for the borrower barcode (as previously) 2=> ask for the item barcode. 3=> check "canbookbeissued". This new sub returns 2 arrays : - IMPOSSIBLE : if something is here, then the issue is not possible and is not done. - TOBECONFIRMED : if something is here, then the issue can be donc if the user confirms it. 4=> if TOBECONFIRMED is set : ask for confirmation, loop. if neither are set or confirmation flag is set (2nd pass of the loop), then issue. The IMPOSSIBLE & TOBECONFIRMED hashs contains : * the reason of the line. always in capitals, with words separated by _ : BARCODE_UNKNOWN, DEBTS ... as key of the hash * more information, as value of the hash ( TOBECONFIRMED{ALREADY_ISSUED} = "previous_borrower_name", for example) This commit : * compiles * works on certain situations, not on other * does NOT issue (the line is # ) * does not check issuing rules depending of # of books allowed / already issued The next step is : - check issuing rule. - extend issuing rule to have a 3D array : for each branch / itemtype / borrowertype = issuing number and issuing length. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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installer from cvs broken?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hi list, here is the error I get when instlling from CVS ./installer script. Is it my fault or a bug? Benedict MARC FIELD DEFINITIONS You can import MARC settings for: 1 MARC21 2 UNIMARC N none NOTE: If you choose N, nothing will be added, and you must create them all yourself. Only choose N if you want to use a MARC format not listed here, such as DANMARC. We would like to hear from you if you do. Choose MARC definition [1]: ERROR 1136 at line 15: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

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Question about Acquisitions and 'Biblios in koha'
by T & J Kotula 03 May '04

03 May '04

Why is it when I hit 'Go' in .../acqui.simple/addbooks.pl (after typing in an ISBN) I never get any biblios listed in the "Biblios in koha" table, even though the biblio with that ISBN is in the bibioitems table. However it works fine when I type in the title. Looks like a bug to me. Am I missing something? I'm running Koha2.0.0. PS. My Koha.biblio table does not contain ISBN column. Tomasz Kotula

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Re: [Koha-devel] Question about Acquisitions and 'Biblios in koha'
by Roger Hiles 01 May '04

01 May '04

British and American editions occasionally differ enough to warrant entirely separate typesetting, but often to save money the same text is shared between British and American publishers. Two allow the British and America editions to be distinguished for marketing and inventory purposes, both a British and American ISBN are sometimes included in the same work. The "International" part of the ISBN is that it's supposed to be a unique identifier that can be used everywhere to identify a particular edition from a particular publisher. >From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges(a)skemotah.com> >To: "Roger Horne" <roger(a)hrothgar.co.uk> >CC: "koha-devel" <koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Question about Acquisitions and 'Biblios in koha' >Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:07:17 -0400 (EDT) > >Roger, I don't think I've ever seen anything like what you describe. (I >always assumed the 'I' in 'ISBN' really meant "international!") Is this >fairly common outside the US? > >MARC records let you repeat the ISBN tag. Koha doesn't. > >Stephen > >Roger Horne said: ><snip> > > Purely out of interest, what are Koha and other systems meant to do with >a > > book that lists on its back cover separate ISBNs for different countries > > eg > > "An Introduction to the History of Printing Types", Dowding, The British > > Library & Oak Knoll Press, has "0712345779 (UK) and 1884718434 (US)" > > printed > > on the outside. > > > > Roger > > -- > > Roger Horne, 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB > > http://hrothgar.co.uk/ > > mailto:roger@hrothgar.co.uk > >-- >Stephen Hedges >Skemotah Solutions, USA >www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g >Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. >Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click >_______________________________________________ >Koha-devel mailing list >Koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/koha-devel _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/

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