[Koha-devel] Suggestions requested for a feature / enhancement based around opac-retrieve-file.pl

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

It's a simple addition I've been thinking of too. Adding the 'logged in
user' option to file uploads. It should be very simple to implement.
+1 from me.

El dom., 25 jun. 2017 a las 19:15, Indranil Das Gupta (<indradg at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Hi all,
>
> the current Koha::Upload.pm and opac-retrieve-file.pl allows for a
> uploaded file (e.g. PDF) to be displayed on the OPAC as long as the
> flag is set to public.
>
> I know how many librarians feel about reader history privacy and they
> are protective about it for good reason. In this context, I'm faced
> with the following two use-cases:
>
> In India, e-books with archival rights are gaining ground over
> hardcopy. As it happens the buyer (institutional library) has to give
> an undertaking that it will implement reasonable safeguards to ensure
> that while all their bonafide users should have access to the books,
> these shall not be presented to the users in such as way as to permit
> un-monitored access / downloads by un-authenticated users etc along
> with maintenance of any access log for any necessary compliance.
>
> Or for example PhD theses where many institutions across India have an
> embargo on the full-text online access for non-members for a period
> upto 2 years from the date of publication, but no such restriction
> exist for bonafide authorised users.
>
> I am working on an early stage prototype to support this sort of
> functionality. My question here to  you all is that how far are we
> open as devs and librarians to accept such an extension into Koha? Of
> course, there would be a syspref that will have to be set for the
> functionality to  kick in.
>
> Suggestions? Comments?
>
> regards
> indranil
>
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