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%20Meeting%2021%20June%202005 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@liblime.com | Full Demos at http://liblime.com | 1(888)KohaILS