Hi Indranil: I just had another thought. You could also have 1 Koha instance as the master catalogue and have people catalogue there. Individual libraries could then pull down their bibliographic records and maybe authority records via specific OAI-PMH sets. There would still be the problem of item records of course... David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595
-----Original Message----- From: Indranil Das Gupta [mailto:indradg@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 18 April 2016 4:07 PM To: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> Cc: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Who all are purposing Koha as an Union Catalog?
Hi David,
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:05 AM, David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> wrote:
We put together a proof of concept using my original OAI-PMH harvester, but I wasn't a huge fan of it, as it was very simple. It didn't deduplicate biblios, and it didn't include items (although we had the OAI-PMH server inject a URL pointing back to the original Koha instance with the number of items attached to the biblio).
Thanks for the reply. You have touched upon several of the concerns I had. My biggest concern is de-duplication and how to go about - how to match, but even before that how to curate the data that one is receiving from participating libraries as MARC exports, so that we can maximize the maximum number of matches. Is there any set standards, rules (even rule of thumb) in these? I mean beyond matching (a) ISBN or (b) Title + Author + edition?
This is what i want to hear about and learn from people like you and others who have already ventured into these areas. Brooke have replied earlier and pointed me to masscat done by Bywater.
thanks in advance.
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