Hi,

BibLibre is working on a project, called mana [1]. This project will try to build a global knowledge base for library data. It will be partly tighten to Koha, and partly not.

For every data on Mana, we will provide micro-services (RESTFUL API) to :

• query the kb and retrieve data
• push data into the kb
  
• let mana users declare a given data outdated or wrong.
  

For now, mana handle:

• subscriptions models: a weekly serial is weekly for everyone. With Mana, Koha users (and possibly other ILSes) will be able to quickly prepare their subscription management.
  
• reports. This is 100% Koha tighten, because it's related to sharing SQL queries. But that will be very useful for all Koha libraries to share and quickly retrieve SQL they can run in a few click on their local DB.

We are also developing an interface to clean mana-kb data.

In the next weeks we will add social data: "give me an ISBN, I'll give you user reviews, user tags, user rankings". This will not be tighten to Koha at all, even if we will implement the mechanism within Koha. There are many many other data that could be stored in this KB:

• kbart and ONIX-PL files for electronic resources
• vendors/contact
• "patron that read this also read that"
  
• It could even include bibliographic data ? [although it would probably result in a huge DB, out of scope for now]
• some specific Koha setups (libraries can add some tweaking to Koha, using JavaScript. We could have a DB of tweaks)
  

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Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques
BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries