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[MLA-NEWS:5205] NISO Publishes RFP Writer's Guide to Standards (fwd)
by acli＠ada.dhs.org via news-to-mail gateway 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Hi, I got this from another list a month ago. Perhaps the NISO document can serve as a checklist for Koha at some point. -----Original Message----- From: S. Norma Godavari [mailto:ngodava@cc.UManitoba.CA] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:59 PM To: Manitoba Library Association News mailing list Subject: [MLA-NEWS:5205] NISO Publishes RFP Writer's Guide to Standards (fwd) From: NISO Headquarters <nisohq(a)niso.org> To: niso-press1(a)list.niso.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Patricia Harris Executive Director NISO (301) 654-2512 Email: pharris(a)niso.org NISO Publishes Guide to Standards for Library Systems Bethesda, Md., USA - (December 19, 2002) - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of The RFP Writer's Guide to Standards for Library Systems, a manual intended to aid library system Request for Proposal (RFP) writers and evaluators in understanding the relevant standards and determining a software product's compliance with standards. The widespread use of Integrated Library Systems (ILS), global communications via the Internet, and growing numbers of digital library initiatives have made the need for compliance with standards more critical than ever. Implementing information products and systems that support standards can ensure that libraries will be able to: ... integrate electronic content products from multiple vendors; ... resource share on a wider geographic scale, even globally; ... participate in more cooperative programs with other organizations, including ones outside the library community; ... speed up the "time to market" of library materials, i.e. the time to acquire, catalog, process, and circulate an item; ... provide remote access to library services; ... reduce the need for user training; ... operate successfully with their parent organization's computing infrastructure; ... migrate cost effectively to newer systems; and ... more easily adopt new technologies. The RFP Writer's Guide to Standards for Library Systems identifies critical standards in the areas of Bibliographic Formats, Record Structure, Character Sets, Exchange Media, Serials Identifiers, Binding, Circulation Protocols, Barcodes, Interlibrary Loan (ILL), Electronic Documents, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Information Retrieval, Metadata, and Web Access. For each standard, the applicability to libraries is described, sample RFP language is provided, and compliance assessment issues are discussed. "Having recently participated in writing an RFP, I wish I'd had this Guide in hand," stated Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director of Digital Library Services at the Florida Center for Library Automation. "It's easy to rattle off a list of standards to be supported, but another thing altogether to specify standards compliance in a way that discriminates between different vendor implementations." Copies of the guide are available in print from NISO Press or for free download from NISO's website (http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/RFP_Writers_Guide.pdf) About the Author Cynthia Hodgson, the author of the Guide, is an independent information consultant and writer with over 20 years of experience as a corporate librarian, library manager, and information technology manager. She has taught graduate level courses in Library Science and has held local and national offices in professional library organizations. About NISO NISO is the only U.S. group accredited by the American National Standards Institute to develop and promote technical standards for use in information delivery services providing voluntary standards for libraries, publishers and related information technology organizations. All NISO standards are developed by consensus under the guidance of experts and practitioners in the field to meet the needs of both the information user and the producer. For information about NISO's current standardization interests and membership possibilities, please visit the NISO website at http://www.niso.org. -- National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300 Bethesda, MD 20814-5248 Tel: 301-654-2512 Fax: 301-654-1721 nisohq(a)niso.org www.niso.org ------- NEW PUBLICATION FROM SUN: Sun Microsystems, Inc. has just published a new whitepaper entitled "Digital Library Technology Trends". This 38 page publication examines evolving Digital Library technology trends, new IT architectures, content management issues, and leading edge academic projects worldwide. 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templating Branchtransfers.pl and other circulation pages.
by Henri-Damien LAURENT 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Hi, I've got a problem templating circulation pages.... Traditionally, pages have One menu.... But there, startmenu returns a list.... that may have more than one element. print startpage(); my @inp=startmenu('circulation'); if ($query->param('barcode') eq '' && $query->param('charges') eq 'yes'){ my $count=@inp; for (my $i=0;$i<$count;$i++){ $inp[$i]=~ s/onLoad=focusinput/onLoad=focusinput\;messenger$\"\/cgi-bin\/koha\/pay.pl?bornum=$bornum\",700,600$\;window1.focus/; } } print @inp; What does that mean for web pages ? I donot have the old version to see what it means. If anyone could help, that might be cool :-) Another question... In circulation.pl, some big parts of the page are conditioned to subroutines results... I am wondering if it would be a good idea to have them included so that it would be nicer for HTML maintenance. Hence, if not advised not to do so, I am to do it in ONE file in order to make unity in developpement. Have a nice day. Henri-Damien LAURENT

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:-( and conclusion with cataloguing and acquisition thread
by paul POULAIN 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Hi everybody, Here is Paul, from the old Europe ;-) i just spended 20mn to read all those answers to my request, and I'm not happy because what i've read is NOT RELATED to my question. 1st : my question was a LIBRARIAN question. And i think almost all answers are related to DEVELOPPERS problems ! 2nd : my question was to imagine a solution to get the best possible acquisition and cataloguing process ! not to do a code -or db- revolution in koha ! and what are you speaking about ? DB normalization, and other -interesting but not in the scope- question. The most interesting thought, imho, comes from Stephen, from NPL (which funded MARC support, so, is always right :-) ) I think that a strong acquisition component would be a very valuable asset for Koha. In fact, I think acquisitions are much more important than cataloging. That means that I support your idea of separating the two, so it would be easier (to my mind) to focus development effort on acquisitions. If they are not separated, then I think cataloging should at least be handled as a sub-task of acquisitions. Incidentally, this is my opinion too :-) So, my proposal for acquisition and cataloguing is the following : *ACQUISITION* During acquisition, you define as few datas as possible. You can define less than ISBN, title, author and editor if you want. The acquisition part does NOT deals with marc (ie : from a librarian point of vue. the mySQL DB is something else !). when the book is recieved, the librarian will note this in the acquisition part of koha, then, will automatically reach the cataloguing chapter This WILL be in the 2.0, it's almost the normal acquisition of the 1.2. this acquisition process will be the same wether MARC or non-MARC. Acquisition in a future will also get : - suggestions *CATALOGUING* - The library can use MARC or non MARC cataloguing. - The cataloguing can be called after an acquisition, or as a specific and single task - The cataloguing means : entering biblio and entering items. All those will be in the 2.0. It's part from acqui.simple in MARC for MARC, and part from normal acquisition of the 1.2 cataloguing in a future version will also get : - z39.50 support - import of "commercial" MARC cdroms like "electre" or "Rameau", in France. I think that everybody agrees to say that books that will arrive soon in the library can be shown on opac or catalogue search part of koha, with a specific flag. So, that will be done too. I hope that at least every LIBRARIAN will be happy with those proposals. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Re: [Koha] Problems upgrading to 1.3.3 on Red Hat 7.1
by paul POULAIN 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Larry Currie a écrit: >Dear Paul, > >Is there a way for us to upgrade from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 without using the >koha.upgrade script? Is it simply a matter of updating the database tables > >by running perl updatabase -I /pathtoC4? > No, there is no way to upgrade between 1.3.x and 1.3.y, as they are test-only versions. Between 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 (=1.9.0. will probably occur next week), there are heavy differences in, for example, marc_breeding table. so, it's too hard to upgrade. >A further description of the problem we encountered using koha.upgrade is >given below: > >"As far as I know, we've upgraded to version 5.8. I don't know whether >that installation deleted version 5.6, but I suspect "default perl" is now >5.8. The issue is how to get around the "./koha.upgrade" requirement that >we also have the YAZ Z39.50 stuff installed -- which depends on non-perl >software: > >error: failed dependencies: > libhistory.so.4 is needed by yaz-1.9.2-1 > libreadline.so.4 is needed by yaz-1.9.2-1 > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by yaz-1.9.2-1 > >We haven't been able to figure out how to get these pieces installed; or >how to install the new koha without the Z39.50 capabilities. (We haven't >looked hard at the latter -- installing via another mechanism.)" > Can't be of any help there. Anything else ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Re: HTML files Summary: Expires:
by Bobby Billingsley 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Argh!!! - Not quite sure what's going wrong, but for some reason or other I simply can't get the beautifier to not produce slightly mangled output. Maybe a fresh pair of eyes will see what I'm missing? The current script is available at http://www.bofh.dk/koha/html-beautify.txt /bobby -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bobby Billingsley, General Specialist -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ___ .--.- \ | | _ `-,_`--'__/ x./_ | Remember to love while you dare | ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) //-_`--/ //\ \ | remember to live while you do | - against HTML email X \__/ `---' \__/ | -- Piet Hein | & vcards / \ Lat: 55° 40' 52" N Lon: 12° 32' 56" E Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of the rest of us :->

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MARC character encoding
by paul POULAIN 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Hi koha-dev, and hi ed, (who is the author of MARC-Charset, and joined koha a few weeks ago) Could someone explain how to translate the "MARC21" charset to a more convenient one (and which is more convenient ?) Same question for UNIMARC (which is ISO646 if my docs are right) I tried MARC-Charset, which seems to translate from "MARC21" to UNICODE, but i don't know what to do with my unicode ;-( I tried : my $charset = MARC::Charset->new(); print $charset->to_utf8($unimarc->as_formatted())."\n"; where $unimarc is a MARC::Record containing a MARC21 record converted to UNIMARC (hope everybody understand this : i mapped marc21 fields to unimarc ones) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Re: [Koha-devel] Re: HTML files Summary: Expires:
by Bobby Billingsley 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Hi team ... OK - I think I've got a clearer picture now. I plan to go ahead with reformatting the HTML using symbolic rather than numeric entities. I'll try modifying a few of the files to use the  variant of the template tags and see if that works (also using single-quoted rather than double quoted values). If this turns out to work ok I'll go along with that in all the files (and also have a go at transforming at least the english files). Once this is donw, I'll provide a few samples of HTML Tidy's CSS-ified files for >someone< to check out (I've no experience w. CSS and not much of a clue about it so I'm probably not the one). Any objections/suggestions? /bobby -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bobby Billingsley, General Specialist -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ___ .--.- \ | | _ `-,_`--'__/ x./_ | Remember to love while you dare | ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) //-_`--/ //\ \ | remember to live while you do | - against HTML email X \__/ `---' \__/ | -- Piet Hein | & vcards / \ Lat: 55° 40' 52" N Lon: 12° 32' 56" E Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of the rest of us :->

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Re: [Fwd: Templating Groups.pl. Where is the borrowergroups table ?]
by paul POULAIN 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Henri-Damien LAURENT a écrit: >Hi, >I am templating groups.pl. >But I got a problem. > >Line 110 of groups.pl uses the function getgroups. >OK >getgroups is a function implemented in C4 Groups.pm. >OK > >But this function queries >"select distinct groupshortname,grouplongname from borrowergroups" >AND in my phpmyadmin Koha base, I don't have any table borrowergroups. >This seems quite odd to me since groups.pl seems to be designed to work >on that. > >Is this normal ? >Is this obolete code ? >Have I misunderstood the problem ? > In fact i don't find groups.pl called anywhere : seems to be unused code. Can katipo confirm this ? if yes => i'll go with vacuum cleaner -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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[Bug 155] Linuxism in installer needs to be removed
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155 a.c.li(a)ieee.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From a.c.li(a)ieee.org 2003-01-23 20:32 ------- Fixed by Andrew Arensburger in misc/Install.pm,v 1.10 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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Quoting in templates
by Owen Leonard 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

I'm going through the default [English] templates looking for things to clean up, and I'm finding a variety of ways of handling quoting. For example: <a href=/cgi-bin/koha/detail.pl?bib=<TMPL_VAR NAME="biblionumber">&type=intra><TMPL_VAR NAME="title">(<TMPL_VAR NAME="author">)</a> I'm assuming that the href= value isn't double-quoted because TMPL_VAR NAME is. This won't validate, nor will instances where single quotes are used (href=''). Is this really necessary? Isn't Perl looking for the <TMPL...> blocks and ignoring the HTML around it? -- Owen

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