[Koha-devel] Xercode presentation

[Miguel Angel Calvo Lázaro]

 We are a new Spanish company, Xercode Media Software S.L, whose members
have a wide experience in topics associated with opensource , specially KOHA
ILS.

Our names are Miguel Angel Calvo and Juan F. Romay and even though we have
been members of the community for some time now and have already had contact
with some important members of the community, we wanted to wait until this
occasion to introduce ourselves formally to the rest of the community.

We first started to work with Koha in the beginning of the year 2007 when
the actual version found was in alpha state. One of our main clients
entrusted us in the study and introduction of ILS.

After several months of developments and personalizations, we presented our
work in the Fesabid 2009 where a member of the community, Biblibre , had the
occasion of seeing. From that moment onwards and due to this we began our
contact with the community. One of our main objectives with the creation of
Xercode is to make the developments carried out available to the community.

We have implemented KOHA in various Spanish Libraries and hope to increase
the number of implementations throughout Spain.

Once having summarized briefly our experience with Koha, we would like to
continue by mentioning some of the developments carried out in 3.2 version
and available in the following direction: http://github. Opinions and
improvements of these developments mentioned below are welcomed and if of
interest can be integrated in the official version.

- Module of fines in days

- Management of the facets related with the authority values

- Multilanguage in the authorized values

- Sending of emails in HTML with html editor

- Module of hierarchical navigation

- Inclusion of marking in the frameworks by default

- Management of libraries and branches

- Searching by type of materials

- Possibility of introducing variables in the SQL report

Xercode has at hand a wide number of collaborators and experienced
librarians which give their opinion in order to try to obtain what should be
a perfect ILS. For this idea of a perfect ILS to happen , we have a series
of objectives and priorities that we consider that KOHA ILS should fulfill.
We think that the main objectives necessary in a short term are the
following:

- Modification of the actual generation of facets. It is necessary to have
all of the facets of the collection of results of a query and not of those
that are visualized in the paging. Other systems, mainly through SOLR, carry
this out without difficulty. Taking into account all the investigation
carried out and the opinion of other members, Zebra is not the solution for
the moment. Our objective, once some satisfactory tests have been carried
out , is to integrate pazpar in Koha for the creation of facets and in the
catalogue query.

- After various tries of putting mod_perl registry and perlRun into
function, all of the results show that the main problem is the ZOOM library
.The rest of the system is more or less stable but not the topic of the
query of the catalogue. Even though the query always reaches the library, at
times results are returned and in other cases not (F5, reloading the
page).We have tried to consult this topic with indexdata in various
occasions but without success. If a member of the community has a solution
to this topic, we would very much like to be in contact.

- Relationship between Net ( all of the catalogue and its libraries) ,
library ( as a group of branches ) and branches of a library. I suppose that
not only in Spain, there are cases in which collective catalogues exist in
which in the same system various libraries formed by branches that work
independently but share bibliographic registers, users...... One of the
developments that we want to integrate is following this direction but due
to actual needs, we have to modify some things( creation of permissions
which affect the library , the whole Net , politics which affect different
levels, ...)

- Acquisitions module. This is one of our main objectives in the following
months. We are very happy with the results of the new development of this
module yet would like to give our opinion about some of the functions that
in our humble opinion could improve this module.

We are very pleased with this collaboration and hope that our contributions
are fruitful

The following domain which we acquired some time ago is available for the
community : www.koha-es.org. We are willing to give support to the koha
community in spanish in order to avoid what happened with some companies.

We look forward to hearing your vision.

kindest regards
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