Hello Koha & Coral lists,

I'm happy and proud to announce that in the next 3 months, Matthias will work full time on Coral <> Koha interface.

He can be dedicated to this task thanks to 3 companies that joined their strength and money to make this possible: Ebsco (45%), BibLibre (40%) and ByWaterSolutions (15%)

He will start by playing the new features and installer of Coral 2.0. Then he will improve the specs I've written (and already sent to some/most of you. If you want them, just ask). Then he will code.

Things he will work on :

• rebase the Coral <> gokb interface and officially submit it for inclusion into Coral. That will be a first step and framework for later inclusion of Ebsco KB.
• work on linking Coral and Koha acquisitions modules: share organizations/vendors, budgets, create basket in Koha from a given Coral acquisition workflow, share bibliographic records when relevent.
  

Coral:

• we will keep things as ILS-agnostic as possible. It means we will use webservices, and never access the Koha DB from Coral
• Every "linked" feature will be activated through the configurations files. If not activated, Coral users will see no change. That's important for "Coral without Koha"
• We will have to add some fields to store the links between ILS and Coral data.
  

Koha:

• We will mostly add webservices (restful, of course), related to acquisition (vendors, budget, baskets, ...).
• We will have to add some fields to store the links between Koha and Coral data.
  

Hopefully, at the end of those 3 months, we should have a working version 1, not complete, that could be improved for an easier use. Our long term goal is to have a fully integrated solution.

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Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
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