Hi everyone, We recently launched a beta version of a Blacklight ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight) instance that is backed by our Koha ILS. You can see it here => http://beacon.wmu.se/ . Currently, it takes indexes nightly MARC dumps from Koha into Solr, with live availability and location lookups performed asynchronously through the koha-restful api. I am wanting to replace some of this, as it would be really nice for us to have the ability to facet on availabilty and location in Solr (i.e. "Show me only items that are not checked out" or "Show me only items shelved in Course Reserves"). There is also functionality for users to log-in and place holds and check their account, but I have not enabled it yet since the person who issues our SSL certs is away on midsummer holiday (we use Google Apps for Email, which requires SSL for OAuth access). There's still quite a bit of work that needs to be done, especially fixing a lot of our catalog records. But in all it works pretty well. Feel free to ask any questions you might have either on list or directly (although I might not respond immediately as I'll be on the Cycle4Lib ride this next week, so my internet connectivity might be spotty ). Thanks again for all the help. best regards, chris.
Chris, Thank you so much for sharing!! I have been wanting to see a Koha/Blacklight combo for ages now. This is awesome. Nicole On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Fitzpatrick, Christopher <cf@wmu.se> wrote:
Hi everyone,
We recently launched a beta version of a Blacklight ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight) instance that is backed by our Koha ILS. You can see it here => http://beacon.wmu.se/ .
Currently, it takes indexes nightly MARC dumps from Koha into Solr, with live availability and location lookups performed asynchronously through the koha-restful api. I am wanting to replace some of this, as it would be really nice for us to have the ability to facet on availabilty and location in Solr (i.e. "Show me only items that are not checked out" or "Show me only items shelved in Course Reserves").
There is also functionality for users to log-in and place holds and check their account, but I have not enabled it yet since the person who issues our SSL certs is away on midsummer holiday (we use Google Apps for Email, which requires SSL for OAuth access).
There's still quite a bit of work that needs to be done, especially fixing a lot of our catalog records. But in all it works pretty well.
Feel free to ask any questions you might have either on list or directly (although I might not respond immediately as I'll be on the Cycle4Lib ride this next week, so my internet connectivity might be spotty ).
Thanks again for all the help. best regards, chris.
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On 17 June 2013 11:57, Fitzpatrick, Christopher <cf@wmu.se> wrote:
Hi everyone,
We recently launched a beta version of a Blacklight ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight) instance that is backed by our Koha ILS. You can see it here => http://beacon.wmu.se/ .
Currently, it takes indexes nightly MARC dumps from Koha into Solr, with live availability and location lookups performed asynchronously through the koha-restful api.
Nice work! I'm just curious: How are you transfering the records from Koha to Blacklight? OAI-PMH or something else? And when you say "koha-restful api" - is that the code from BibLibre ( http://git.biblibre.com/?p=koha-restful;a=summary ), or something else? Like the GetAvailability call in ILS-DI, for example? Best regards, Magnus
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