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Join Us In Paris For KohaCon 2006
by Russel Garlick 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

MEDIA RELEASE: Join Us In Paris For KohaCon 2006 27 March 2006 The Koha community is excited to announce the first ever Koha Conference to be held in Paris France May 2nd and 3rd 2006. We'd like to extend an invitation to libraries, developers, media and library supporters to attend our first conference. This event is the first formal gathering of the wider Koha community, including developers, users and supporters, since version 1.0 of the world's first Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS), was released in 2000. It provides an opportunity to join together to celebrate achievements to date, and discover more about the Koha ILS. Many of the presentations will focus on what Koha 3.0 will offer the community. The conference will be held over two days in Paris, France. DAY ONE - DISCOVER KOHA May 2nd 2006, Paris The Discover Koha day will include talks on what is Koha and open source software, what does this mean for libraries along with a presentation of the new features in Koha 3.0 and some background on what is involved in moving to Koha from another ILS. DAY TWO - KOHA USER GROUP (Europe) May 3rd 2006, Paris The User Group day will be more hands on and provides existing Koha users with an opportunity to discover more about the current system and learn about what is coming in the future released. There will demonstrations of new functionality. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? If you are already a Koha user, or perhaps you have been interested in Koha and want to find out more, then you should attend KohaCon 2006. A large number of Koha developers from around the world will be there, and this is your chance to meet with them. They include, amongst others: * Chris Cormack, Version 1.X Release Manager, Katipo Communications, New Zealand. * Paul Poulain , Version 2.2 Release Manager, Independent Koha Consultant, France. * Joshua Ferraro, Version 3.0 Release Manager, Liblime, United States of America A full programme outline speakers and topics will be published on http://www.koha.org website. For more information about KohaCon 2006, please go to http://www.koha.org/community/conferences/ REGISTRATION IS FREE, BUT ESSENTIAL This is a free event, but if you would like to attend you will need to register. You can register online at http://www.koha.org/community/conferences/registration.html. Once you have registered, you will be contacted by the conference organising committee with further details. The Koha community would like to thank Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP) for providing a venue for KohaCon in Paris. KOHA DEVELOPERS WEEK May 8th-12th 2006, Marseille Following on from the conference, a group of core Koha developers will be meeting in Marseille to work on Koha 3.0. If you are a Koha developer who is interested in contributing, then please attend a Koha Project IRC meeting. Meetings are held every Monday at 20:00 GMT. See http://www.koha.org/community/irc.html for IRC channel information. Space is limited at the Development Week venue. If you would like to attend, please ensure that you are at a project meeting in the next two weeks. The Koha community would like to thank Bibliotheque du Centre de Mathematiques et Informatique (CMI) at the Universite de Provence for providing a venue for the Developers Week in Marseille. ABOUT KOHA Koha is a full-featured Open Source library management system first deployed in January 2000 at Horowhenua Library Trust. It is currently maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff from around the globe. Several companies around the world support Koha, providing libraries with a full array of vendor services including installation, migration assistance, data integrity testing, staff training, software maintenance, support and customization. To learn more about Koha, please visit http://www.koha.org/. -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph: +64 4 934 1285 Fax: +64 4 934 1286 Mob: +64 27 537 1377 Skype: russelgarlick Web http://www.katipo.co.nz

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13 digits isbn
by Paul POULAIN 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello, in 2007, january, the ISBN will be on 13 digits. afaik, it will use the standard vendor code, that for instance is : 978+ (isbn-controldigit) +controldigit re-calculated. What will we have to do in Koha ? * modify the DB to handle this longer ISBN * re-calculate all previously entered ISBN ? * rewrite show-isbn-with-dash sub ? * that's all ? -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Mugridge and Fit
by Stephen Hedges 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

I just stumbled across a Google TechTalk video presentation by Rick Mugridge (from New Zealand) talking about the "Fit" open-source testing framework: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7618420216108922950&q=techtalks Anybody from NZ heard of this guy? Is it time to add videos to kohadocs? :-D -- Stephen

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New material in the Koha usersguide
by Stephen Hedges 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Chapter 3, "Circulation Tasks," has been added to the Koha Users Guide. The Guide is the first document on www.kohadocs.org. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Hey all.
by Kyle Hall 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hello, I'm new to the koha-devel list. I work with Cindy at the CCFLS. I had a few items that josh thought I might want to put out there for everyone. We've been working hard on getting our county ready for a transfer over to koha, and I've written a few things that *might* be useful to other koha users. Probably the most useful is a new template theme. It uses a tabs and side-tabs interface that I think is quite intuitive for new users. It's nearly out of what I would consider beta and just needs a few more tweaks. Other than that, I've been transfering our data from our existing ILS using php scripts for the data processing. I'm a huge fan of OO development and have created a number of data-access objects for manipulating the koha database. I'll probably end up rewriting them in perl when 3.0 comes out, as all the objects for working with the marc tables will be useless, and I'll need to be able to use the perl library to access zebra. Also, I've written a few custom reports in php for the county. I don't know how useful they might be for others, but we'll put them out there anyway (once I set up a bit of web space to post them on). Probably the most interesting project (to me) is a firefox extension that adds a toolbar for displaying koha statistics, among other things. I wrote a little perl script that generates an xml file containing stats for each branch in the koha database and the extension pulls it from the server and displays them in the toolbar. I'll probably add koha search functionality to it as well. I'm a bit stymied in my project though, because I can't get the extension to save user preferences (ie. the server's address and the libraries branchcode). If anyone on the list has any experience with firefox extensions, help would be much appriciated. Thats all I've got for now. Kyle IT Technician Crawford County Federated Library System

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New document on kohadocs.org (Installing on Debian)
by Stephen Hedges 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Joshua Ferraro has revised his document about installing Koha on Debian to accommodate Koha version 2.2.6 and Debian sarge (3.1). Find it on www.kohadocs.org under "System Administration." If you still need to know how to install older versions of Koha on Debian woody, those documents are still available, too -- substitute "Woody" (capital W) for "sarge" in the url for each type of document. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Re: Unimarc, marc21, Unicode, and MARC::File::XML
by Paul POULAIN 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Mike Rylander a écrit : > I tested with the record you sent Ed and me, and everything seems to > work for me ... > As you can see, I tested several variants of the UNIMARC flag, and > even tested not sending the encoding to new_from_xml() ... it all > seems to work for me, and I'm not sure what problems you're seeing. > Perhaps you just needed to set your binmode for the XML source? strange, strange... What does my script : * retrieve the MARC::Record from zebra * read some datas from mysql * build a page with HTML::Template * send the pages to the browser I added 3 lines to save the record in a file after reading from zebra. Adding binmode(F,':utf8'); before saving my record in F, give me correct UTF-8. without binmode, it's NOK. But when I put the MARC::record in a page builded with HTML::Template, it's wrong. The HTML is utf-8 (html page encoding). It also contains some strings from mySQL and all strings from mySQL appear as correct utf8 while all strings coming from the MARC::record coming from zebra are not ! I can add "binmode()" to the template output, but everything goes wrong with strings from mySQL. Any suggestion welcomed ! -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Updates to Updating Koha document
by Stephen Hedges 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Pierrick Le Gall has made some significant revisions to Joshua Ferraro's "Updating Koha" document. Find it on www.kohadocs.org under System Administration -> Maintenance and Troubleshooting. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Building zebradb
by Tümer Garip 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Hi, We have now put the zebra into production level systems. So here is some experience to share. Building the zebra database from single records is a veeeeery looong process. (100K records 150k items) Best method we found: 1- Change zebra.cfg file to include iso2079.recordType:grs.marcxml.collection recordType:grs.xml.collection 2- Write (or hack export.pl) to export all the marc records as one big chunk to the correct directory with an extension .iso2079 And system call "zebraidx -g iso2079 -d <dbnamehere> update records -n". This ensures that zebra knows its reading marc records rather than xml and builds 100K+ records in zooming speed. Your zoom module always uses the grs.xml filter while you can anytime update or reindex any big chunk of the database as long as you have marc records. 3-We are still using the old API so we read the xml and use MARC::Record->new_from_xml( $xmldata ) A note here that we did not had to upgrade MARC::Record or MARC::Charset at all. Any marc created within KOHA is UTF8 and any marc imported into KOHA (old marc_subfield_tables) was correctly decoded to utf8 with char_decode of biblio. 4- We modified circ2.pm and items table to have item onloan field and mapped it to marc holdings data. Now our opac search do not call mysql but for the branchname. 5- Average updates per day is about 2000 (circulation+cataloger). I can say that the speed of the zoom search which slows down during a commit operation is acceptable considering the speed gain we have on the search. 6- Zebra behaves very well with searches but is very tempremental with updates. A queue of updates sometimes crashes the zebraserver. When the database crash we can not save anything even though we are using shadow files. I'll be reporting on this issue once we can isolate the problems. Regards, Tumer

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Re: MARC Label in English for UNIMARC
by paul POULAIN 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

roberto.sturman(a)ts.infn.it a écrit : >>From: Alan Hopkinson >>Subject: [Koha-devel] RE: MARC Label in English >>Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:09:53 +0000 >> >>I hope that a version of KOHA will be done for UNIMARC as well as MARC21. >> >> >It >is widely used in Europe, the Far East and developing countries >particularly > > >>outside the Anglo-American world. >> >>Alan Hopkinson >>Chair, IFLA Permanent UNIMARC Committee >> >> >Here is my contribution to the KOHA project. > > (attached where complete UNIMARC in english files) >Some weeks ago I prepared the UNIMARC definition files for KOHA, both for >Bibliographic and Authorities records. > > Many thanks for everybody that could be interested by unimarc in english. I cc koha-devel & koha mailing lists. it seems you sended only bibliographic files. To export authorities files, look in auth_*_structure tables. could you please dump everything again (in separate files), with -c to have field names : this avoid having unnamed insert : if the DB changes, the file could'nt be imported anymore. Once i have them, i'll include everything in CVS for next stable version, and ask ppl on mailing list for some tests. Note : It seems you have only used a few from existing UNIMARC plugins. We have one for every coded fields (1xx), although it's only in french for instance. If you candidate to translate those, I could send the templates to you as well. -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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