[Koha-devel] Koha + Blacklight

[Fitzpatrick, Christopher]

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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