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Website Redev - Content Writers
by Russel Garlick 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi All, Following up from the meeting yesterday. Content has been assigned as follows THD Features http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/features.html http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/opac.html http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/intranet.html http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/under-dev.html Faqs http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/faq.html KADOS About Koha http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/about-koha.html Koha Team http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/koha-team.html History http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/koha-history.html Support http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/support.html Pay for Support http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/pay-support.html Awards http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/awards.html SHAUN Homepage http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/index.html Contributing http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz/kohawebredev/content/contribute.html RUSSEL Showcase Case Studies Testimonials - I will be asking around for content to be used in this section. If anyone has a quote, testimonial or case study they would like to appear here, please let me know. For the testimonials/quotes - please supply a quote, the name, title (posistion) of the person, and the name and location of their library/organisation. Community SUBMITTING CONTENT We are striving for a go live of the site in the first week of September. In order to make this, please submit all content by 21 August. Please email the content to me. I am happy to accept text, html or open office documents from the content writers. Alternatively you can upload it somewhere and send me a link so I can download it. Once I have recieved the content I will use it to populate that pages on my site and then pass onto to Irma to edit. Once Irma has edited the content, Rachel will proof and approve. We can then set about plugging it into the CMS (once again I will be calling for volunteers for this) Cheers -- 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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new script in misc/migration_tools
by Paul POULAIN 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

I've added a rebuild_zebra script in misc/migration_tools directory. This script can be use to rebuild the zebra DB. It stores all koha MARC records in iso2709, in the bilbios directory. After that, you just have to "zebraidx update biblios" I tried on a 9900 DB, here are the results : [paul@bureau migration_tools]$ ./rebuild_zebra.pl -c 9900 9903 MARC record done in 37.9104120731354 seconds [paul@bureau zebra]$ zebraidx update biblios <snip> 18:31:24-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] Iterations . . . 144575 18:31:24-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] Distinct words . 39891 18:31:24-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] Updates. . . . . 46 18:31:24-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] Deletions. . . . 2 18:31:24-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] Insertions . . . 39843 18:31:24-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] zebra_register_close p=0x8104cf8 18:31:25-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] Records: 9887 i/u/d 9881/6/0 18:31:25-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] user/system: 531/145 18:31:25-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] zebra_stop 18:31:25-11/08 zebraidx(20348) [log] zebraidx times: 11.33 5.31 1.45 This script will be needed when migrating from 2.2 to 3.0. Now, let's go to add query tools in SearchMarc.pm. But that will be for tomorrow morning, as it's almost 7PM in France ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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[not so] long is the road to 3.0
by Paul POULAIN 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

My work on head advances faster than I expected... With todays commits, we can : * ADD and MODIFY BIBLIOS and ITEMS when MARC=ON only. * that updates the zebra database as well if you configured it correctly. See below how to configure the zebra for Koha. It's a 1st step, we will need more user-friendly tools later ! * if you query the zebrasrv with yaz-client or another z3950 client, you should get nice results. But still nothing if you search in Koha. * don't try to delete a biblio or an item, you would get a nice system crash ! HOW TO MAKE THE ZEBRA RUN : =========================== * go to koha cvs home directory * in misc/zebra there is a unimarc directory. I suggest that a marc21 libraries create a marc21 directory (& commit it to cvs to share ;-) ) * put your zebra.cfg files here & create your database. * from koha cvs home directory, ln -s misc/zebra/marc21 zebra (I mean create a symbolic link to YOUR zebra directory) * now, everytime you add/modify a biblio/item your zebra DB is updated correctly. NOTE : * this uses a system call in perl. CPU consumming, but we are waiting for indexdata Perl/zoom * deletion still not work * UNIMARC zebra config files are provided in misc/zebra/unimarc directory. The most important line being : in zebra.cfg : recordId: (bib1,Local-number) storeKeys:1 in .abs file : elm 090 Local-number - elm 090/? Local-number - elm 090/?/9 Local-number !:w (090$9 being the field mapped to biblio.biblionumber in Koha) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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stupid sourceforge rejecting commits as spam...
by Paul POULAIN 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi, sf just rejected a mail generated by cvs after one of my commit. don't be surprised if you look at koha-cvs & your updated head if you find differences... the rejected mail was, of course, an important one for the move to 3.0 (of course, the commit worked, it's just the mail automatically made after by SF that has been rejected by SF. stupid SF...) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Newer Versions of KOHA -- backing up
by Bruffey, Mark 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

For the latest versions of KOHA, will I need capability to back up live SQL files, etc., for tape backups? Thanks, Mark L. Mark Bruffey Director Library Services Central Baptist Theological Seminary 900 Forestview Lane N Plymouth MN 55441 763 417 8264 mbruffey(a)centralseminary.edu <mailto:mbruffey@centralseminary.edu> Central Seminary www.centralseminary.edu <http://www.centralseminary.edu> Fourth Baptist Church www.fourthbaptist.org <http://www.fourthbaptist.org> WCTS Radio AM 1030 Online www.centralseminary.edu/wcts <http://www.centralseminary.edu/wcts> *************************************** Have you experienced the good news? "Every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved!" [Romans 10:13] ***************************************

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Wierd bug in addbiblio.pl
by Tarallo, Andres 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

We're doing our own bug hunting session. We found a bug in the addbiblio.pl, this bug appears only in fields with authorized values lists. When you click in the + sign to duplicate a field it duplicates AND FILLS with the same value the field. What's more if yu have an empty subfield with the same authorized value list it also does the same behaviour. Since we have been hacking koha, I thougth that was something we broke, but I've found the same behaviour on the demo site of koha france. We tested this with the 041 field (language) y think that in koha france in 106 or something like that (know very little UNIMARC). We've doing all kind of tests and found that this bugs is related to the scrolling_list method of the CGI library, this somewhat caches previous calls to the function. Any help will be appreciated Andres

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long is the road to 3.0...
by Paul POULAIN 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

... but the 1st commits will arrive in a few hours, As I hack the code, I see that the field biblio.biblionumber can be called : * biblionumber * bib * oldbiblionumber * bibnum I plan to normalize & use only biblionumber that is more logic. Don't be surprised, if in the next days/weeks, the cvs head is badly broken. (that's why we have a 2.2 branch ;-) ) Every time I commit some code that breaks stability but is a step to 2.2, i'll throw a mail to koha-devel to explain what the commit does & breaks (at least what i'm sure it breaks ;-) ). My plan before the end of the week is (nothing commited yet) : 1/ modify SQL structure to get rid of marc_biblio / marc_subfield_table / marc_word => DONE 2/ modify Biblio.pm to handle biblios in the new structure => 10% done 3/ modify SearchMarc.pm to enable search on the new structure 4/ provide some zebra config files. of course, that will be highly unstable & only for true hackers, the one with a beard that love having bugs :o) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Keeping Up
by Joshua Ferraro 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi all, How do you keep up with library, technology and Koha news? What online resources do you use? What Lists, Forums, RSS feeds, Blogs, Wikis, podcasts, etc. do you use? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Searching Group Meeting Notes
by Joshua Ferraro 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi everyone, Sorry I'm late in putting this out: Present: kados slef owen chris paul thd rach This is just the highlights. If you want to grok the issues you'll need to read the log: http://koha.org/cgi-bin/logs.pl?recall=recall&saved_query=Searching%20Meeti… 1 Started with a discussion of Zebra: using zebra as a plugin isn't a good idea because we don't want to maintain two koha searching apis we need to test Zebra to determine which option is best: zebra for all (need to test .. does this make circ slower) or zebra for biblio, database for item info paul will begin working on porting Biblio.pm to reindex zebra (to store status info in the MARC record and re-index zebra during circ) chris will work on writing a wrapper for opac searches kados will begin working on configuration of Zebra thd mentioned some problematic UNIMARC issues related to compound fields 2 slef and kados discussed CQL as a query front end. discussion will be moved to koha-devel 3 the discussion turned to opensearch. kados showed the opensearch demo http://liblime.com/opensearchportal.html the idea of federated searching and ILL using opensearch was discussed slef suggested looking at RDF rather than RSS2.0 the discussion will be moved to koha-devel -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Koha ILS, Mambo Intranet, DiscrimiNet Filter jmf(a)liblime.com | Full Demos at http://liblime.com | 1(888)KohaILS

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long is the road (1st commit done)
by Paul POULAIN 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

1st commit done. It contains : * updater/updatedatabase : get rid with marc_* tables, but DON'T remove them. As a lot of things uses them, it would not be a good idea for instance to drop them. If you really want to play, you can rename them to test head without them but being still able to reintroduce them... * Biblio.pm : modify MARCgetbiblio to find the raw marc record in biblioitems.marc field, not from marc_subfield_table, modify MARCfindframeworkcode to find frameworkcode in biblio.frameworkcode, modify some other subs to use biblio.biblionumber & get rid of bibid. * other files : get rid of bibid and use biblionumber instead. What is broken : * does not do anything on zebra yet. * if you rename marc_subfield_table, you can't search anymore. * you can view a biblio & bibliodetails, go to MARC editor, but NOT save any modif. * don't try to add a biblio, it would add data poorly... (don't try to delete either, it may work, but that would be a surprise ;-) ) IMPORTANT NOTE : you need MARC::XML package (http://search.cpan.org/~esummers/MARC-XML-0.7/lib/MARC/File/XML.pm) that requires a recent version of MARC::Record Updatedatabase stores the iso2709 data in biblioitems.marc field & an xml version in biblioitems.marcxml Not sure we will keep it when releasing the stable version, but I think it's a good idea to have something readable in sql, at least for development stage. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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