Who all are purposing Koha as an Union Catalog?
Hi all, At a recent conference here, there was discussions about utilizing Koha as an Union catalog. I would like to know how many / if anyone here is using Koha in that manner. And what is the experience so far, the extent of custom development etc thanks -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org
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). I don't think anyone ever used it. There is talk from some people about using my new OAI-PMH harvester for making Koha a union catalogue... but I think that will be difficult and require more development in Koha. The OAI-PMH harvester works great for adding/updating/deleting bibliographic records, but adding/updating/deleting items becomes very difficult depending on what's going on in your union catalogue... although I guess we could do what EBSCO and VuFind do and just provide live item info via an API... that's actually probably the way to do it. Otherwise, your union catalogue will be stale... and it's difficult to convey item state via item metadata... at least without changing how we use that item metadata currently I think. Anyway, just my 2 cents. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595
-----Original Message----- From: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel- bounces@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Indranil Das Gupta Sent: Monday, 21 March 2016 2:46 PM To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: [Koha-devel] Who all are purposing Koha as an Union Catalog?
Hi all,
At a recent conference here, there was discussions about utilizing Koha as an Union catalog.
I would like to know how many / if anyone here is using Koha in that manner. And what is the experience so far, the extent of custom development etc
thanks
-- Indranil Das Gupta
Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg
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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. -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org
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.
-- Indranil Das Gupta
Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg
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