[Koha-devel] z3950 support is in CVS & specific question

[Ingrid Lacis]

Hi -

I gave it a try. See bug 422.

Ingrid
>
>For all those not following CVS commit...
>
>I've just commited MANY IMPORTANT things that MUST be tested...
>
>z3950 search and import seems to works fine.
>Let me explain how :
>* a "search z3950" button is added in the addbiblio template.
>* when clicked, a popup appears and z3950/search.pl is called
>* z3950/search.pl calls addz3950search in the DB
>* the z3950 daemon retrieve the records and stores them in z3950results AND 
>in marc_breeding table.
>* as long as there as searches pending, the popup auto refresh every 2 
>seconds, and says how many searches are pending.
>* when the user clicks on a z3950 result => the parent popup is called with 
>the requested biblio, and auto-filled
>
>Note :
>* character encoding support : (It's a nightmare...) In the z3950servers 
>table, a "encoding" column has been added. You can put "UNIMARC" or 
>"USMARC" in this column. Depending on this, the char_decode in 
>C4::Biblio.pm replaces marc-char-encode by an iso 8859-1 encoding. Note 
>that in the breeding import this value has been added too, for a better 
>support.
>* the marc_breeding and z3950* tables have been modified : they have an 
>encoding column and the random z3950 number is stored too for convenience 
>=> it's the key I use to list only requested biblios in the popup.
>
>*************
>HOW TO TEST :
>*************
>* 1st, moddify a little your test-DB :
>============================
>marc_breeding table must be :
>-----------------------------
>CREATE TABLE marc_breeding (
>  id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
>  file varchar(80) NOT NULL default '',
>  isbn varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
>  title varchar(128) default NULL,
>  author varchar(80) default NULL,
>  z3950random varchar(40) default NULL,
>  marc blob NOT NULL,
>  encoding varchar(40) default NULL,
>  PRIMARY KEY  (id),
>  KEY title (title),
>  KEY isbn (isbn)
>)
>
>z3950servers must be :
>----------------------
>CREATE TABLE z3950servers (
>  host varchar(255) default NULL,
>  port int(11) default NULL,
>  db varchar(255) default NULL,
>  userid varchar(255) default NULL,
>  password varchar(255) default NULL,
>  name text,
>  id int(11) default NULL,
>  checked smallint(6) default NULL,
>  rank int(11) default NULL,
>  syntax varchar(40) default NULL
>) TYPE=MyISAM;
>
>2nd, enter z3950 servers :
>==========================
>In France (an in French), I use :
>INSERT INTO z3950servers VALUES ('bubase.univ-angers.fr', 210, 'ADVANCE', 
>'', '', 'ANGERS', NULL, 1, 1, 'USMARC');
>INSERT INTO z3950servers VALUES ('193.52.199.5', 21210, 'ADVANCE', '', '', 
>'LYON3', NULL, 1, 2, 'UNIMARC');
>INSERT INTO z3950servers VALUES ('138.231.48.2', 21210, 'ADVANCE', '', '', 
>'ens-cachan', NULL, 1, 4, 'UNIMARC');
>
>3rd, launch "daemon" :
>======================
>Open a console, go to koha/z3950/ and launch ./processz3950queue This 
>script should be launched by the daemon launcher, but it's a little bit 
>modified to loop every 5 seconds, without the SIG{HUP} method provided by 
>the true daemon.
>You should see "starting loop" appearing every 5 seconds.
>
>4th, go to Koha :
>=================
>(CVS updated of course !)
>* search for a biblio
>* edit it
>* look at the link "z3950 search"
>* clic on it, the popup appear
>* the popup auto-refresh.
>* within 5 seconds, you should see log messages in the processz3950queue 
>console, telling that search begins/end...
>* the popup should be filled with results.
>* choose the biblio you want to "import", and... the popup disappear, and 
>the original biblio is updated with your z3950 record !
>
>NOTES :
>=======
>1- This is alpha. Report bugs :-)
>2- works only with ISBN in complete form at the moment (2-10-200014-1, not 
>2102000141)
>3- If you experiment some strange accented characters, change your encoding 
>style for the server. (The sample servers works well for me)
>
>Please let me know what you experiment with this ! I would be happy to have 
>some success/failures before 1.9.3, which should occur on friday.
>
>***************
>SECOND QUESTION
>***************
>Now, let's go for dinner, then bed-time...
>And tomorrow, i'll work a little on a bulkmarcimport script :-)
>bulkmarcimport will be used to migrate biblios from a previous ILS to Koha. 
>Nelsonville needs it, asked it, and nobody seems to be on the way to do it 
>! So i'll take care of it.
>If you want me to do some tests for you, please send me a sample of a MARC 
>iso2709 file with ITEMS, and i'll use it for my tests.
>PLEASE, if you send me one sample, send me a dump of a working marc 
>parameters table (USMARC ?) with it, or my tests won't work !
>Please (2nd) : if you send me a file, compress it, and no more than 50 
>biblio (my mailbox is only 10MB !)
>
>--
>Paul POULAIN
>Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
>responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
>
>
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