[Koha-devel] Integrating KOHA with an SIS

[Joe Atzberger]

I think the most practical approach will be to use Koha LDAP to
authenticate/replicate patrons from your SIS, if LDAP is supported.

It will be much easier to take the approach of having Koha and SIS logins be
the same than having a true "single sign-on" method.

I doubt your SIS has any z3950 or SIP2 capability, but these would be
logical protocol to use for retrieving data from Koha.  Rudimentary
scripting in either language may provide you with the surface data you need,
or you could take the approach of screen scraping.  I would not recommend
scraping if you plan to keep Koha updated though, since the codebase and
interface design are fairly volatile.

--Joe Atzberger

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:27 AM, kabir <khanna.kabir at gmail.com> wrote:

>  hello,
> We developed a Student Information System on the LAMP platform( Linux
> Apache MySql PHP ) and would like to integrate Koha as the library
> management system into it. The level of integration we desire is as follows
> -Single sign on
> -From our SIS application, we would like to use API's to extract the data
> out of Koha regarding the book issue status and the history( how many books
> pending, with details, history of book issuance, etc )
> -Clicking on the Library link in our application does a silent login into
> the Koha system and takes the user to his/her Koha page via the OPAC
> interface.
>
> Please can someone point me to the correct people/resources on the internet
> which would be helpful to get started with this integration. I am
> specifically looking for people who may have been involved in similar
> projects before or documentation that provides information on integrating
> Koha with other systems.
>
> thanks
> kabir...
>
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