RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Importing Holds from Geac
Somehow I missed this question when John first posted it. I'd be interested to see the results of this as well as we are brothers-in-GEAC-arms with Innisfil at the moment. :) I've done nothing more than some very minor fiddling with Evergreen, but I can definitely see promising things coming from it. Without Serials and Acquisitions we wouldn't be able to implement it, mind you, but it's nice to see the open source solutions coming along nicely. Thanks, Marc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Scott Sent: February 12, 2008 7:21 PM To: open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Importing Holds from Geac On 01/02/2008, John van Rassel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone had imported from Geac before, and if so, would they share some expertise with me? I have been able to follow the instructions for importing the marc records, and that seemed to go ok, but I have hit a road block trying to import holdings data Any help would be appreciated! Thanks John Hey John: I've never looked at Geac MARC records / holding data. Perhaps you could post a small sample set, let us know what libraries and locations you would expect the copies to wind up in, and perhaps we could try to walk through the import process to augment the importing bibliographic records document with some real life examples. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Trivial update to opac.dtd
I'm guessing that !ENTITY footer.copyright Copyright #xA9; 2006 Georgia Public Library Service now ought to be !ENTITY footer.copyright Copyright #xA9; 2006-2008 Georgia Public Library Service Ben
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Trivial update to opac.dtd
On 13/02/2008, Ben Ostrowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing that !ENTITY footer.copyright Copyright #xA9; 2006 Georgia Public Library Service now ought to be !ENTITY footer.copyright Copyright #xA9; 2006-2008 Georgia Public Library Service Thanks Ben! Applied to trunk, rel_1_2, and rel_1_2_1 branches. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: Importing Holds from Geac
Dan and others, I've been assisting John/Innisfil on their evaluation of Evergreen and I must say congrats to the Evergreen team. It's looking like a viable option. My experience doesn't include PERL programming and I really don't know the internals of the Evergreen system that well, but I'm very well versed in SQL, C/PHP and the *NIX GREP utilities (awk/sed/grep/tr/...). Using those tools, I've been toying with Innisfil's GEAC data and more or less successfully imported patron data (names/addresses/phone #'s/bar codes/etc...). Their MARC records came in fairly easily using the method outlined with the Gutenberg records. The harder part is the holdings data. I've made some good progress, but there is still more to do. We don't have a good definition of the GEAC data files (it's a Universe/Pick multi-value database). There is basically no export utility that we know of. I'm simply man-handling the raw data file and generating SQL statements which insert records into the appropriate tables in Evergreen. It's coming together, but there is still more reverse-engineering to do with the GEAC data file. If we're successful, I'll be sure to post our findings. Relating to this, I have a question: my scripts end up giving me 99094 holdings records to go into the asset.call_number asset.copy tables. If I import them all, they go quite happily but the OPAC web client never returns anything if I do a search. If I import 2 of the 99094 records, searches work fine. I'm using the Gentoo image for testing. Does anyone have any ideas why the larger sample set won't return search results? -- Garry Dunn, P.Eng www.trellisconsulting.ca
[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Relevance (again)
Hello, When I first joined this list I had a question about the search algorithm that was never quite answered. A problem with it has come up again. I search for Apple fruit and got 18 hits. To the immediate left I have a listing of relevant subjects, the first one of which is Apples. Followed by Fruit trees, Fruit, then Frontier and pioneer life and then Overland journeys to the Pacific. Oh, but it gets better. Guess what is returned if you select Apples? Well partner, it isn't Dewey 583.73 Apples. No, it helpfully returns 568 hits which starts off with Apple Computers, includes Appling Country census results and the tenth item is an apple cookbook. Does that strike anyone besides myself as rather odd behavior for a search engine? Or perhaps I should say, a library search engine? Well, but opinions are going to vary on that score aren't they? My real question is: Where is the relevance behavior for Evergreen set such that I can alter it? That gets us past all the normative questions and to one that is purely technical. I want to *alter* the relevance behavior of Evergreen searches. Where is that done? Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error
Jason,
I've made a little headway on this after looking at the srfsh log, but
I'm not quite there yet.
On the clients I'm getting a dialog that says Reference Error: au is
not defined after using the admin/open-ils login.
The login via srfsh is apparently successful:
srfsh# login admin open-ils staff
Received Data: 473d71044596f01bc27c6fd0da6350bf
Request Completed Successfully
Request Time in seconds: 0.084222
Received Data: {
ilsevent:0,
textcode:SUCCESS,
desc: ,
pid:18581,
stacktrace:oils_auth.c:305,
payload:{
authtoken:6216a5e960be2806542e7a400629dff5,
authtime:7200
}
}
Request Completed Successfully
Request Time in seconds: 0.418546
Login Session: 6216a5e960be2806542e7a400629dff5. Session timeout:
7200.00
srfsh#
I'm not being prompted to login in the my account section of the
catalogue.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jason Etheridge
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:02 PM
To: open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error
On Feb 4, 2008 5:48 PM, Mark Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm attempting to login using the staff client both from the machine
on which the server's installed and another machine. The server
status and version are coming back OK on both, but authentication is
failing using the default admin account. Is what follows sufficient
to identify the problem?
Mark, let's see if we can narrow this down some. Are you able to log
in with admin from the My Account section in the online catalog? How
about from srfsh?
Srfsh is a command-line program that requires a .srfsh.xml file in your
home directory. You can model it from this example:
http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=osrf-devel:srfsh_--_.srfsh.
xml
Once in srfsh, try: login admin open-ils staff A good response will
include a field labeled authtoken.
--
Jason Etheridge
| VP, Community Support and Advocacy
| Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone:
1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | web:
http://www.esilibrary.com
[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Patron Info
Any info anyplace on importing Patron Information? F. Grant Johnson 566-0630 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype ID = jetsongeorge Systems Coordinator Robertson Library University of Prince Edward Island *** Attitude is IT!
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error
On 13/02/2008, Mark Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason,
I've made a little headway on this after looking at the srfsh log, but
I'm not quite there yet.
On the clients I'm getting a dialog that says Reference Error: au is
not defined after using the admin/open-ils login.
The login via srfsh is apparently successful:
srfsh# login admin open-ils staff
Received Data: 473d71044596f01bc27c6fd0da6350bf
Request Completed Successfully
Request Time in seconds: 0.084222
Received Data: {
ilsevent:0,
textcode:SUCCESS,
desc: ,
pid:18581,
stacktrace:oils_auth.c:305,
payload:{
authtoken:6216a5e960be2806542e7a400629dff5,
authtime:7200
}
}
Request Completed Successfully
Request Time in seconds: 0.418546
Login Session: 6216a5e960be2806542e7a400629dff5. Session timeout:
7200.00
srfsh#
I'm not being prompted to login in the my account section of the
catalogue.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jason Etheridge
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:02 PM
To: open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error
On Feb 4, 2008 5:48 PM, Mark Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm attempting to login using the staff client both from the machine
on which the server's installed and another machine. The server
status and version are coming back OK on both, but authentication is
failing using the default admin account. Is what follows sufficient
to identify the problem?
Mark, let's see if we can narrow this down some. Are you able to log
in with admin from the My Account section in the online catalog? How
about from srfsh?
Srfsh is a command-line program that requires a .srfsh.xml file in your
home directory. You can model it from this example:
http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=osrf-devel:srfsh_--_.srfsh.
xml
Once in srfsh, try: login admin open-ils staff A good response will
include a field labeled authtoken.
--
Jason Etheridge
| VP, Community Support and Advocacy
| Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone:
1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | web:
http://www.esilibrary.com
Rereading the original email, the following leaps out at me:
setting network_failure_status_string: TypeError:
obj.NETWORK_FAILURE has no properties
It sounds to me like the problem is occurring at the gateway (the
staff client and catalogue connect to the Evergreen server via the
Apache gateway, while srfsh connects directly to the Evergreen server
via XMPP). Can you check your Apache error logs to see if there are
any errors turning up there? If the normal catalogue functions work
fine, but logging into My Account fails, perhaps it's the SSL portion
of your Apache config that's the problem.
Also, make sure that you start the Apache server _after_ the OpenSRF
router / perl / c services are already running. If the Apache server
is running before the OpenSRF services start up, then you will have to
stop the Apache server and start it again to make any successful
connections.
More info would also be helpful (sorry if this info is in a different
thread, but my memory is limited) - are you running OpenSRF 0.9 with
Evergreen 1.2.1.2, and on which Linux distribution?
--
Dan Scott
Laurentian University
Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error
I'm not being prompted to login in the my account section of the catalogue. I didn't go back to read the original post, but this makes me wonder, did you run autogen? Seems like I've had odd events like this if I hadn't.
