[Koha-devel] Who all are purposing Koha as an Union Catalog?

[David Cook]

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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indranil Das Gupta [mailto:indradg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 18 April 2016 4:07 PM
> To: David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> Cc: koha-devel at 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 at 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.
> 
> 
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