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Multi-Language marc bib/auth & Policy, Koha Architecture
by massoud alshareef 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hello, > > As of Koha 3.2.x, we are using Koha as a single language ILS in marc tags > and policies, where > marc bib tags, auth tags, policy descriptions are displayed in one language > only at an instance. As shown below with our Arabic Koha 3.2.3 installed, > you will notice that in spite that the interface is in English > (Left-to-Right) orientation the marc fields tags and policy elements > descriptions are still displayed in Arabic because there are only single > fields structure to carry these elements. > > marc Bibliographic tags: > > http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?bibl… > marc Authority tags: > > http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.… > < > http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.… > >Library, > Branches Groups: > http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/branches.pl > > I recall hat the issue of having Koha supporting more than one language, > for > its marc fields tags and policy descriptive names in one instance, has been > raised before, but until today we are not sure if something had been done > about it or the issue is still in the pipelines for future Koha releases. > > Please, does anyone know more about this issue ? I recall that I have read > in one of the Koha digest posts that a German Koha was built with English > and German infrastructure to allow using either language in all of its user > interface including marc tags and policy descriptive names. Thanks for any > guidance on this. > > Thanks > Massoud M. AlShareef, > KnowledgeWare Technologies

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Hacker's corner week 10
by Paul Poulain 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Hello all, As announced during the last IRC meeting, i'll try to write a weekly summary about bugzilla/developer activity : bugs submitted, patches submitted,... Let me know if you find this handfull, if you'd like to see another information, i'll do my best to report what is interesting ! I'll try to announce usually : * what's new since last week * what's still waiting For this 1st mail, i'll concentrate on what's waiting. In one word: it's huge, *WE NEED YOU*. Just a few numbers = 102 bugs are "patch pushed" and are waiting for someone to close them after checking the bug or the feature is OK in master. 149 bugs are "waiting sign-off": remember Koha 3.4 should be released on late april, and it would be too bad if so many patches were not integrated just because they have not been signed-off by anyone ! I've added some links on http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Bugzilla that will let you see the details of what's summarized in this mail. 1- bugs closed ========= 19 bugs were closed last week. 2- bugs pushed to close ============== There are 102 bugs that have a patch pushed and require someone to check and close the bug. The oldest is the 1883, and there are some critical ones, like the 5423, 5611, 4141, 4857, 5041, 5824. 3- bugs to sign-off =========== There are 149 bugs to sign-off. #2795 = The oldest is also a CRI one Offline circ tries to circ on biblio-level "itemtype" <http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2975> #3624 = a BLO one ! a patch has been submitted to update the DB structure. Without this patch, the DB is inconsistent on update #5449 = another BLO one ! JSON malformed in Koha - Blocker with jQuery 1.4.x <http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5449> There are 7 CRI, that are waiting for someone to check = 2975, 3652, 4276, 4993, 5027, 5379, 5646. But the 149 are worth a check, of course. 4- to discuss ======== I also have found that those bugs should/could be discussed #5009 = Dobrica Pavlinusic <mailto:dpavlin@rot13.org> has submitted a patch to add autocomplete="off" to borrowernumbers and barcode forms Owen has closed the bug, I think it's worth more investigation. Please give your opinion ! #5390 = library choice not remaining when searching opac. Nicole E. ask an interesting question, jump in the discussion & send a patch if you've an idea! #5533 = marking item lost diff in two places, same thing, jump in the thread Nicole starts ! PS: (once again) congratulations to chris_c => i've searched for patches signed-off waiting (waiting to move to "pushed, pls test"). It's easy, there are only 3, 2 of them being only a few hours old, and probably not here anymore when you'll read this mail. HTH -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

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Hello
by Julian Maurice 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hello Koha community ! I just arrived at BibLibre and I will work on Koha for the next weeks so I wanted to introduce myself. First, I'm French, so please forgive me if I make some mistakes. I just discovered Perl four days ago but i will do my best to help improving Koha. See you soon. -- Julian Maurice

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Template with Fluid 960 Grid System
by Tiago Murakami 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi, I test an adaptation of Fluid 960 Grid System ( http://www.designinfluences.com/fluid960gs ) with Koha 3.2.5 and I have great results on my test OPAC ( http://minhabiblioteca.com/ or http://109.123.108.51/ ). The Fluid 960 Grid System is more flexible than Yahoo UI. Its possible to think about change grid system on official koha template? Cheers, -- Tiago Murakami

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KohaCon11 volunteers meeting
by Koustubha Kale 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi all, First meeting for everybody who wants to help organize KohaCon11, is on Tuesday 8th March 2011 at 14:00 UTC Conversions to your local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=3&day=… I have set up a wiki page and a starter agenda at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon11_Volunteers Please add anything you would like to discuss in the agenda, attend the meeting and help organize KohaCon11. Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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Items are not added in records
by Prawesh Shrestha 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

The items are not added in record. It is not displayed in any view - MARC, ITEM and others. But when items are searched for barcode printing, they are displayed without the features to add to the label. The check box and 'Add' don't appear. If 'Edit Items' is clicked the items are there. I checked the database, no items are written in 'Item' table. i tried the following command: sudo -u koha perl -I /usr/share/koha/lib /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -v -w it output the following: . . . . 13:40:47-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Records: 57000 i/u/d 10/56990/0 13:40:53-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Records: 58000 i/u/d 19/57981/0 13:40:58-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Records: 59000 i/u/d 28/58972/0 13:41:11-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 14.0% completed; 61 seconds remaining 13:41:21-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 40.3% completed; 29 seconds remaining 13:41:31-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 57.6% completed; 22 seconds remaining 13:41:41-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 59.6% completed; 27 seconds remaining 13:41:51-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 70.0% completed; 21 seconds remaining 13:42:01-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 76.0% completed; 18 seconds remaining 13:42:11-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 81.4% completed; 16 seconds remaining 13:42:21-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [log] Merge 87.3% completed; 11 seconds remaining 13:42:27-03/03 zebraidx(3905) [fatal] Bad block size -8 in pos=511075 zebraidx: isamb.c:549: open_block: Assertion `p->size >= 0' failed. ==================== CLEANING ==================== I checked for any changes in settings found no changes at all. Need your help. With regards, -- Prawesh Shrestha Project Engineer --------------------------------------------- Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd. GPO 8976 EPC 241 Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal Tel: +977-01 5009282 http://yipl.com.np info[at]yipl[dot]com[dot]np ----------------------------------------------------

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koha - length of records - separation of items from biblios
by Linda Culberson 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

There is an "abandoned RFC" for "Stop copying item records to bib's MARC and MARCXML RFC" . Could someone tell me why this was abandoned, because I think having the item record data exists both in the items table and as MARC fields in the bib record is an a terrible shortcoming of Koha for academic and research libraries with large numbers of items for certain titles. Thank you. -- Linda Culberson lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824

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Subject tracings
by Jared Camins-Esakov 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hello. Can anyone think of any reason not to specify that subject tracings should match only complete subfields? For example, at the moment, if you are looking at a book about Religions (with a subject term "Religions") in the catalog of a library that does not use Koha's authority control, when you click on the subject tracing in the OPAC, you will be given a result set that contains every single record that has the word "Religions" anywhere in its subject. Including, for example, books with the subject "Christianity and other religions." If we make the query on the subject tracings su,complete-subfield: the only false positives will be items where the subject heading being searched is used for both a main entry and a subdivision, which still seems like a significant improvement over the current behavior. Thoughts? Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

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Jenkins (formerly known as hudson, until Oracle lost their minds) hosting
by Chris Cormack 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi All As you are probably all aware I have been running a hudson (now jenkins) instance on my linode server. It has been invaluable for catching errors and for helping to drive us towards better testing. The problem I now have is that my linode instance is RAM starved with both bugzilla and jenkins on it. So I am looking for volunteers to offer a machine to host jenkins on. Ideally debian (running squeeze) as the packages for jenkins work really well. I would need a login so I could set up and configure jenkins, and get it running all the tests again, but then id be happy to have sudo access revoked and let someone else maintain it. Jenkins is a pile of java, so it is RAM hungry. Conversely I could leave it running on my linode, but others could chip in to help afford the upgrade to the next level to get more ram available. Or any other suggestions? Chris PS the Jenkins story is an interesting one, and one worth reading about, a lot of how not to interact with a free software community lessons to be learnt there.

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Re: [Koha-devel] Script to remove authorities
by Thomas Dukleth 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Sorry, I had not noticed that Henri-Damien Laurent had sent the the authorities deduplication script as an attachment. I have become unaccustomed to looking for attachments to email messages on mailing lists. Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com +1 212-674-3783

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