October 2012 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

October Koha Community Newsletter has been published
by Daniel Grobani 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Hi, The October 2012 edition of the Koha Community Newsletter has been posted to http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-october-2012/. Cheers, Daniel Grobani Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words
by mh_zalabany＠hotmail.com 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi karam I think this issue is very important to all users who use Arabic language We need to know what the important modifications in Zebra index And koha files to index the arabic words without suffix and prifex or searsh with root word using zebra I will give you example We need to search for word (al-madrasah) this mean school We have tow parts (al) mean (the)and (madrasah ) and the last caracter (h) may have tow forms( ه ة ) we need when we search for madrasa get madrasah and al-madrasah with all its forms Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Karam Qubsi" <karamqubsi(a)gmail.com> To: "Koha" <Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, <Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> Subject: [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 11:12 am Hi All I sent this email to the zebra mailing list I wish that koha will support suffix and prefix in the arabic search by default in the future I wish if you have any Idea about the solution for this Best regards Karam. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:20 AM Subject: need help in transliterate rule To: zebralist(a)lists.indexdata.dk Hi all , I'm new to zebra , and using it in "koha" ILS in the Arabic language there is some letter come before the words or after them these letters we don't need to index in our index I will give you an example : in English we can say : the car... in Arabic the same is : السيارة if you note that the letter in Red is "the" and it's ignored in English search but in Arabic search we need the zebra to find every record that have " the word " or just "word" الكلمة or كلمة so how to define that to zebra thanks a lot _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Koha install on squeeze unmet deps
by Harry Lachanas 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, Is this a known issue ?? using the squeeze-dev repo Indicates unmet deps " koha-common : Depends: libchi-driver-memcached-perl but it is not going to be installed Depends: libchi-perl but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages " Rgrds. Harry

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Re: [Koha-devel] what about creating a new "opac-any" index in zebra
by Linda 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

In my opinion, one of the problems of creating an "opac-any" index in zebra is that many of the fields and subfileds in MARC are not meant to be shown to the public, and indexing them confuses things. If they don't appear in the opac, yet do appear in the search results, the patron is left wondering why. There is also the problem that Koha doesn't have a way of dealing with indicators, such as the "traced" or "untraced" in the 490, for example. For a record that has minimal cataloging it may not be a problem, but with a fully cataloged record, it would pull up a lot of false results. But that is just my 2 cents worth - admittedly not worth much, inflation considered. -- Linda Culberson lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us Miss. Dept. of Archives and History Archives& Records Services P.O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Phone: (601) 576-6873

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bug 7445 not fixed in koha 3.8.5 ?
by Karam Qubsi 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi I'm using koha 3.8.5 the bug 7445 is not solved in this version because I have the same error message خطأ:Language 'ar' does not exis http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7445 I see that this bug was fixed in the RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.5 http://koha-community.org/koha-3-6-5-released/ -- *Karam Qubsi* Arabic Koha Support Team The founder of Wikibrary (The Arabic Libraries And Information Science Encyclopedia ) *Email: karamqubsi(a)gmail.com* *Skype : karam.qubsi* *Mobile: +963 991 264 020* *Viber <http://viber.com/> / Tango <http://www.tango.me/> : +963 991 264 020 * *Wikibrary website : http://wikibrary.org* *Wiki and forum for Arabic Koha : http://koha.wikibrary.org<http://wikibrary.org/> * *كرم قبسي.* كوها العربي ـ فريق الدعم مؤسس ويكيمكتبات ( الموسوعة العربية للمكتبات والمعلومات )

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Packages from master, and new dev packages
by Robin Sheat 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

So I've finally convinced packages to build from master again. At the moment, the only patch required that's not already in master is the one on bug 8636, and that's just because I had to make a change to it today. You can find these in the squeeze-dev repo. Additionally, and of particular interest to koha-devel is the addition of two new packages: koha-deps and koha-perldeps. Koha-deps depends on things like apache and mysql-client, but not the perl modules. Koha-perldeps is similar, but it only contains the perl-related dependencies. Put these two together and it's like having a full koha-common install, but without koha itself ending up on your disk. This'll hopefully make setting up developer environments a little easier. Thanks to Sofiane El harsal at Biblibre for this. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D

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need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words
by Karam Qubsi 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi All I sent this email to the zebra mailing list I wish that koha will support suffix and prefix in the arabic search by default in the future I wish if you have any Idea about the solution for this Best regards Karam. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:20 AM Subject: need help in transliterate rule To: zebralist(a)lists.indexdata.dk Hi all , I'm new to zebra , and using it in "koha" ILS in the Arabic language there is some letter come before the words or after them these letters we don't need to index in our index I will give you an example : in English we can say : the car... in Arabic the same is : السيارة if you note that the letter in Red is "the" and it's ignored in English search but in Arabic search we need the zebra to find every record that have " the word " or just "word" الكلمة or كلمة so how to define that to zebra thanks a lot

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Improving the advanced search form
by Srikanth Dhondi 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi there, I am currently working on improving accessibility of koha opac site with our accessibility expert. One of the things we noticed is that the advanced search option is not only confusing for blind users but also even for normal users. I have noticed the following issues with it: 1) By default the Fewer Options option is selected, which is not obvious to the normal users until they click on More Options. 2) The layout could be a lot better, in particular the Fewer Options search form is quite abstract in what it does. For example, the default boolean operator is AND which is not obvious to even normal user. In my opinion, layout similar to the one http://kea.massey.ac.nz/search/X, is better. Looking forward to your comments/feedback. Srikanth

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suspected error in record.abs and proposal for a new index
by Mathieu Saby 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi I'd like to edit Unimarc Record.abs to create an index for dissertation note (field 328 : http://www.bnf.fr/documents/B328_6_2010.pdf) I remark this field in Marc21 is field 502 : http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd502.html : 502 - Dissertation Note (R) But in Marc21 Record.abs, this field is mapped with index "Material-type" line 155 : melm 502 Material-type An other field is also mapped with Material-type in Marc21 : 007 line 53 melm 007 Microform-generation:n:range(data,11,1),Material-type,ff7-00:w:range(data,0,1),ff7-01:w:range(data,1,1),ff7-02:w:range(data,2,1),ff7-01-02:w:range(data,0,2) I've never used Marc21, but it sounds a bit strange for me. Could Marc21 guys tell me if this 502 mapping with "Material-type" index is a bug? If it is a bug, what about creating a new index, "dissertation-note" for example, mapped with 502 in Marc21 and 328 in Unimarc ? In bib1.att, there is Dissertation-information = 1056 which could I suppose be user for that purpose. Regards, M. Saby Rennes 2 University -- Mathieu Saby Service d'Informatique Documentaire Service Commun de Documentation Université Rennes 2 Téléphone : 02 99 14 12 65 Courriel : mathieu.saby(a)univ-rennes2.fr

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what about creating a new "opac-any" index in zebra?
by Mathieu Saby 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hello As a librairian, I think the "any" index defined in record.abs often return too much results, and inappropriate. It is *partly *caused by "any" index indexing all fields, including all notes fields (5XX in marc21, 3XX in unimarc), and of a lot of fields that could be usefull for staff but not for our public (internal item notes, statistic codes, date/place of publication etc). I want to submit you an idea : - creating a new index in zebra, matching only "usefull" fields and subfields (and it will be editable by all libraries...). For example we could call it "opac-any" - modifying the templates so that this index may be used instead of "any" when somebody makes a search in opac. What do you think of that? Regards, Mathieu Saby Rennes 2 University -- Mathieu Saby Service d'Informatique Documentaire Service Commun de Documentation Université Rennes 2 Téléphone : 02 99 14 12 65 Courriel : mathieu.saby(a)univ-rennes2.fr

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