Category: Koha

A new Koha support Company

From their release

“LibLime is pleased to announce the launch of our website and product
demos [ http://liblime.com ].

LibLime provides full vendor services (migration assistance,
staff training, and software maintenance, support and development) to
libraries for open-source software like Koha. Our mission is to make
open-source software more accessible to US libraries.

On our website, you can find information about Koha and our other
products: Mambo Intranet and DiscrimiNet Filter. Our Koha demos
couple version 2.2.2’s stable code base with a fresh template
re-design. In addition, we’ve developed several Koha enhancement
features: Amazon.com content (item cover images, descriptions,
reviews, and ratings), spellchecking on failed search queries, and an
auto-completion “Koha Suggest” for the OPAC keyword search, to
name a few. We’ll be committing these features to the HEAD branch of
Koha soon.

We’d love feedback from the Koha community. So feel free to visit
our site, try out the demos, play around, and let us know what you
think. Comments/suggestions/flames are always welcome ;-).”

So that looks really positive. I wish them the best of luck.
Koha

Information Online Conference 2005

All in all, this went pretty darn well. We had a lot of interest in Koha,
and found more people running it that we didnt know about. There were the
usual ‘I dont get it’ type responses, but they seem to be getting less each
conference. Now just to do all the follow up work and we should have a pile
of Koha installs on the go.

Spelling suggestions

David Bigwood made a really good suggestion today about adding a spelling
suggestions feature into Koha. Much like the way google works. I think we
could use the soundex feature in MySQL to do something neat. In fact I’m
going to give that a whirl right now.

Koha

UPDATE 2004/12/04: Ok proof of concept works

Right I whacked up a proof of concept
href=”http://library.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-seach.pl”> here .
Its only working for title search so far, try a search for fush, or sole
music.

Open Worldcat search from Koha

Following a suggestion from
href=”http://bigballofwax.co.nz/cgi-bin/blosxom?redirectURL=http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/” onMouseOver=”window.status=’to catalogablog.blogspot.com/’; return true;” onMouseOut=”window.status=”; return true;”>David Bigwood on the Koha
mailing list. I whacked up a little proof of concept of how spawning a
search of the Open Worldcat (essentially searching lots of other libraries)
could work. If you search on something and get no results, Koha will give
you the option to either search again, or you can try searching Open
Worldcat through google. You can see it in action
href=”http://bigballofwax.co.nz/cgi-bin/blosxom?redirectURL=http://library.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-searchresults.pl?type=opac&keyword=jules+vern” onMouseOver=”window.status=’to library.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-searchresults.pl?type=opac&keyword=jules+vern’; return true;” onMouseOut=”window.status=”; return true;”>
here .

Im going to take a crack at project Gutenberg next.

Koha

UPDATE 2004/11/14: Project Gutenberg

Ok, heres what im thinking to do. Project Gutenberg make their catalog
available in XML, and they even have a simple example in perl of how to
parse it. It should be very easy to grab the catalog, parse it, and load it
into koha as items of itemtype WEB. Comments? Suggestions?

Lots of Koha developments

We had a really productive koha development team meeting on irc the other day.
You can read the log of the meeting here .
The main points are.

  • Paul will become release maintainer for the 2.2 series
  • MJ Ray will continue to maintain 2.0.x until at least 2.2.1
  • Emiliano and his team have agreed to become the release managers for the
    2.4 series
  • Russel is our new QA Manager
  • Rachel is our new Kaitiaki

So its all go in Koha land.