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e-mail address to wiki admin needed
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 17 May '04

17 May '04

Hi, I would like to know who is responsible for Saas Wiki server. I need to ask whether it would be possible to not send http header with iso-8859-1 as default. It screws up characters written in UTF-8 (chinese and polish). Benedict Or perhaps there is an html instruction available to include my own header?

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updated roadmap for 2.2
by paul POULAIN 17 May '04

17 May '04

http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaRoadmap With some interesting exclusive news : a new Koha user in France : "Ecole des Mines de Nantes" (EMN [1]) that funds some features : * suggestions in OPAC (=request for byuing a book. Confirm suggestion is correct in english) * Report / Stats modules. And minor ones : * language selection by borrower * biblio copy/paste * global modifications in catalogue enjoy ;-) (and note I now have a lot of work for some months ;-) anyone answering on koha & koha-dev ML : many thanks ) [1] is EMN related to ENSMP ? yes and no. The M means "Mines" in both cases (which means mine, like "ore-mine". Was schools specialized in mining technology. Now there are no more mines in France, those high school teaches general technology. EMN adopts Koha because it's free, good product, and probably a little bit too because ENSMP has choosen it before) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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ldapkoha
by MJ Ray 13 May '04

13 May '04

Hello, Does anyone have ldapkoha working with an ADS LDAP? I had to make a few changes to make it work and wondered what the right way to merge these changes into the main tree, and who is the maintainer now? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing

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[Fwd: Re: Koha 2.0]
by Andrew Groom 13 May '04

13 May '04

Hi there, Not sure if this is the correct path for support, but Ill try it anyway J Im helping out Bernadette with installs of Koha, and while Im pretty experienced with web apps in general, Perl and CGI in particular are not my forte. Do the attached screenshots mean anything to you ? Let me know if MS Word is not a good format for you and Ill reformat them. This problem has occurred after I upgraded their system to Koha 2.0. The system is Mandrake 8.2. Cheers, Andrew. --------------------------------------------- Aphid Internet Technologies http://www.aphid.co.nz Ph. (03) 963 3734, Mobile: 025 992 569 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Koha 2.0 From: "Bernadette Cassidy" <BernadetteC(a)burwood.org.nz> Date: Thu, May 6, 2004 10:10 am To: "Andrew Groom" <andrew(a)aphid.co.nz> Hi Andrew, It was nice talking to you, thank you so much for your advice. The email for the developers is below and I've attached screen shots of the acquisitions process where there is a glitch - there is an error message in the last screen shot (top left). koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net. Let me know how you get on. Kind regards, Bernadette ___________________________________________ Bernadette Cassidy Library & Learning Coordinator Allan Bean Centre for Research and Learning in Rehabilitation Private Bag 4708 Burwood Hospital Christchurch New Zealand Tel: (03) 383 9492 Fax: (03) 383 7500 --------------------------------------------- Aphid Internet Technologies http://www.aphid.co.nz Ph. (03) 963 3734, Mobile: 025 992 569

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News from the CVS (future Koha 2.2)
by paul POULAIN 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi everybody, Some news of the CVS version, that will become version 2.2 (in September, wait for december for libraries that want something heavily tested). What's already done : * MARC search merged with non-MARC search. It's really more easy to use with 1 form only ! You can also order the result (by title, author, dewey, publisher, publicationyear) * Search tools have been reworked. Search on Nelsonville DB (140 000 biblios, 290 000 items) is instantaneous for searchs with a few results. The search needs some seconds when there is a lot of results. We will probably limit the number of results to 200. * The OPAC search and the librarian search have been merged. In 2.0, we sometimes had differents results, that was really not funny ;-) * Some improvements have been realised in members interface. It's mostly code reorganizing, the user should see only a few differences. * Nelsonville did a few changes on z3950 servers. * Issuing rules : the code for issuing has been completly reorganized/rewritten. The 1st goal is to be able to have issuing max & length defined for a given branch / item type / borrower type. The 2nd goal is to have a clear & documented code to be able to modify it easily. So a library with really specific rules should be able to add it's own in Koha. * The librarian interface produces better HTML code. Almost XHMLT compliant. What is decided & affected : * Cataloguing framework : a great improvement !!! In 2.2, the library will be able to define a MARC framework for each itemtype. You will be able to define a MARC form for monography, one for serials, one for CD, multimedia... Each framework will have it's own cataloguing rules. Really a great improvement !!! And fully compatible with 2.0 database * MARC authority : in Koha 2.0, authorities are poorly handled. In 2.2, full MARC support will be provided. * export of biblios in OPAC in iso2709 or human readable form, to a mail address, or by http download. * Serial module : subscribing, cataloguing... serials. important notes : * for MARC authority, functionnal needs are specified for UNIMARC. We will need some help to validate it for MARC21 too. * all the decided & affected feature described in this mail are funded by "Ecole des Mines de Paris". Either by direct funding, or through a developper they have hired, since May, 1st, for 4-6 months. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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CVS & search & OPAC css theme
by paul POULAIN 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi, The MARC search has been ported to OPAC in CVS-HEAD. Some fixes have been done too. It works fine, pls test it & report any problem. IMPORTANT NOTE : The OPAC theme has been set to "css" by default in the installer. This will be the default theme in 2.2, so improvements of OPAC are done here & only here. CSS theme has a lot of advantages : * css compliant * 100% translatable * no text-images. If you plan to test CVS with a copy of a working DB, don't forget to set opactheme=css in systemprefs. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Is MARC support in Koha only partial?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi list, I just saw the following web page: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html ... and I am thinking to myself that perhaps Koha doesn't support all the fields, subfields and indicators that are present in MARC21. I base my assumption on the fact that marc_tag_structure and marc_subfield_structure tables do not have them all there. Would it be right to assume that if those tables had all the fields with indicators and subfields that MARC21 specification includes then we would be able to create an input form to properly catalog new bibliographic records for later exporting them into iso-2709 file? Useful for sharing bibliographic records with other libraries. Benedict

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FASD project: Online survey launched
by Benno Luthiger 05 May '04

05 May '04

Dear Open Source developer I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate. You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it. With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development. With many thanks for your participation, Benno Luthiger PS: The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/. We have set up the mailing list fasd(a)webboard.ethz.ch for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_de.html for registration to this mailing list. _______________________________________________________________________ Benno Luthiger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 8092 Zurich Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch _______________________________________________________________________

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MarcKohaMap - please help.
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hi all, Koha-2.0 seems to be shipped with some fields not set (could be my impression only). I have setup a page on the wiki. Could I ask anybody to have a look at it and correct the wiki page for me? http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?action=save&page=SposobyMapo… Once ready it could replace the current page (http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=MarcKohaMap) which seems outdated. You only need to look for a couple of things there. Please, pay particular attention to biblionember, biblioitemnumber and itemnumber. I've messed up something and forgot how they should be mapped. See also whether these are OK: biblioitems: 852 h - classification 852 k OR 300 f - itemtype 022 a OR 440 x - issn 082 a OR 852 k - dewey 260 c - publicationyear 700 a,b,c,d OR 300 b - illus notes 500 a (maybe set $3 to 'biblioitems'?) - what does it mean? 245 f - copyrightdate volumedate volumeddesc timestamp marc - are they mapped to anything? items: Tag 876 does it exist or is used? Tag 506 does it exist or is used? Thank you for any input on that. Benedict

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major commit in circulation module CVS/HEAD
by paul POULAIN 03 May '04

03 May '04

Copy/paste of commit notes : CIRCULATION : the big rewrite... This 1st commit reorders deeply the circulation module. The goal is to : * have something 100% templated/translatable. * have something easy to read & modify, to say to customers/users : you can define your circulation rules as you want if you accept to look in C4/Circ/Circ2.pm The circulation now works : 1=> ask for the borrower barcode (as previously) 2=> ask for the item barcode. 3=> check "canbookbeissued". This new sub returns 2 arrays : - IMPOSSIBLE : if something is here, then the issue is not possible and is not done. - TOBECONFIRMED : if something is here, then the issue can be donc if the user confirms it. 4=> if TOBECONFIRMED is set : ask for confirmation, loop. if neither are set or confirmation flag is set (2nd pass of the loop), then issue. The IMPOSSIBLE & TOBECONFIRMED hashs contains : * the reason of the line. always in capitals, with words separated by _ : BARCODE_UNKNOWN, DEBTS ... as key of the hash * more information, as value of the hash ( TOBECONFIRMED{ALREADY_ISSUED} = "previous_borrower_name", for example) This commit : * compiles * works on certain situations, not on other * does NOT issue (the line is # ) * does not check issuing rules depending of # of books allowed / already issued The next step is : - check issuing rule. - extend issuing rule to have a 3D array : for each branch / itemtype / borrowertype = issuing number and issuing length. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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