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Koha 2.2 and MARC21 and documenting
by Paul POULAIN 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi, I'm installing the "Ecole des Mines de Nantes" with a future 2.2 in "real life". It's the occasion to fix many bugs, but it works quite well for instance. So, I think the 2.2 will be released officially in october, as planned (just without the stat module, that can wait for last quarter, as there are no specific DB modifs for stats) BUT, there are a lot of things to do for MARC21 & documenting MARC21 : ====== In Koha 2.2, the authorities are managed like biblios in Koha 2.0 : through MARC parameters tables. I've defined (or am defining) those tables for UNIMARC, and for various authority types (author, subject...) THE SAME JOB MUST BE DONE FOR MARC21. And I don't plan to do it myself, unless I get a customer that uses MARC21 (in english). Be sure that this would be really a big surprise. So, you need a candidate. The parameters tables have almost exactly the same structure as for MARC biblios, except that in authorities, there is no tab, a field is just used or not used. DOCUMENTING ========= The online help is slowly, but continuously, completed by Stephen Hedges (www.koha.org/wiki) Thanks to him. I think (am sure !) he would be happy to have some help. Anyone with a working 2.0 can write online help. I take care of the differences between 2.0 and 2.2. And i'll document every new feature through this online help (altough i don't write them on the wiki, but directly in Koha) Thanks a lot for your attention, and don't hesitate to get involved. If many people are actively working on Koha, the next version will arrive soon. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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OPAC default template
by Paul POULAIN 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Just to remind everybody (smekota, it's specially for you ;-) ), that in the 2.2 version the default template is CSS. default is deprecated (in fact, I should move css template to default directory...) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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for Nelsonville
by Paul POULAIN 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

Hi Nelsonville, A few weeks ago, on IRC, you said that you have found a nice my.cnf to configure mySQL. You also said that you will publish it. What about this ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Import to KOHA [35,000 records] successful!
by Bruffey, Mark 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

FYI: My attempt to import the 35k records into KOHA was a great success! Now, it was a quick-and-dirty transfer, to be sure; in fact, I did no pre-mapping MARC to KOHA. Nevertheless, the ease of the transfer and the usability of the database, even in this crude form gives me confidence that KOHA may turn out to be the means we us for circulation, as it continues to mature. I look forward to offering our collection publicly within a few weeks, though browse-only. We're not ready for circ just yet, I think. Thanks to Stephen Hedges for critically important assistance via email. Best, 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 Central Seminary <http://www.centralseminary.edu/> www.centralseminary.edu Fourth Baptist Church <http://www.fourthbaptist.org/> www.fourthbaptist.org WCTS Radio AM 1030 Online <http://www.centralseminary.edu/wcts> 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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FW: [Koha-bugs] [Bug 816] New: /index.html uses deprecated meta-refresh
by Owen Leonard 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

> http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=816 > > Summary: /index.html uses deprecated meta-refresh > > The front page of default koha sites uses a meta-refresh (deprecated by the > w3c) > to redirect to the correct page. It should probably use a http "302 moved" > instead. I'd like to get suggetions from the list on this one. I agree with it--meta- refresh is not just deprecated, it was never in the spec to begin with, as far as I can tell. It has its uses, but I agree with the bug-poster that this isn't an appropriate one. But--do we have a viable alternative? To make some other kind of redirect would require changes to Apache's configuration. Can that be automated in a Koha install? I don't know the mechanics of it, so I'm asking for help. Any ideas? Thanks, Owen

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The reports module and ISO 2789
by Antti J. Salminen 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hi, I'm interested in what kind of functionality is planned for the stats/reports module. Will it generate yearly reports conforming to the ISO 2789 international library statistics standard which is used in some countries, at least in Finland? If that's not possible implement in the initial version, I think it would be wise to plan for it in advance when designing the system. I'd like to help in creating the module if it's possible. -Antti -- Antti J. Salminen <antti.salminen(a)vaasa.fi> Vaasa public library - regional library

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[Koha] Portugese Version of Koha?
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Hello, I've had an enquiry about a portugese version of Koha and wanted to check of there actually is one in progress? If so, is it just the OPAC being translated or the whole thing? Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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koha 2.1.1 Release
by Andres Tarallo 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Will the upcoming development release have the multingual patches applied?, right now I'm integrating the translations made by the people of SIU with the 2.10 to make a first release of spanish translations.

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Dewey character
by Stephen Hedges 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, ICINZ wrote: > we are following the DDC scheme for classification,i set the following > MARC tags for classification no, but the Classification No. is not exactly > display in the results of MARC search .It skip the zeros for ex. if the > no. is 004.22 it shows only 4.22. I think we really should change the dewey column to character data instead of number data. (The other wrong thing that happens right now is the extra zeros at the end -- 004.22 shows as 4.220000.) Would this cause problems for HLT? I know there would have to be some script clean-up, too. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Re: [Koha-devel] Multilingual Support in The User interfase
by Paul POULAIN 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Answer to koha-devel to, unless your mail is really private, that's is not the case here. Andres Tarallo wrote: > Paul POULAIN wrote: > >>> I've noticed that in the config file I can't specify a "Default >>> Language" for the User Interfase, but I've noticed that there are >>> Language especific directories (ie >>> koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/default/en). Koha will take into >>> account the preferred language for the browser and act acordingly? >> >> iirc no (not a bug, but a feature) > > I'm not very fanatic of the "inteligent web applications" that sense > the prefered language of the browser and serve pages accordingly. I > rather prefer to chose a default languaje and serve pages in that > languaje, it prevents us against mis configured web browsers. > >>> Even tough there are translations to various languajes it seems to >>> me that they aren't integrated to the main tree. I want to >>> contribute my work to the main tree, are ther any plans to >>> integrate to the tree the trasnlations? >> >> The plan here is quite simple : if you do a translation, ask for a >> sourceforge account or send me the file (if it's for 2.2 future >> release) & i'll add it. (Note translators are added to the "about" >> page, so they become famous all around the world ;-) ) > > As I've told you I'm also working withe people of SIU (Argentina) and > I'll be working based on their work, so they also deserve credit :). > I've been messing with the C4 modules and I still dont understand how > the language files are choosen. Don't spend too many time on this : this will change soon. Really soon (waiting for a commit from chris) The new feature will be : the default language is still stored in systempreferences, but the user, in OPAC, can change it's language (choose it in a list box) The selected language will be stored in a cookie. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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