Hi
I will definitely give both a try. I don't mind doing translation as I
need this in Traditional Chinese and you guys might not have that. I need
a software that may let me switch between languages on the OPAC end so that
we can support users w/ different language needs.
Do you know where I can find a list of public z39.50 servers? I need to
find one in Taiwan, otherwise it'll be very hard for us to catalog our
collection.
thanks!
nancy
On 12/8/11 12:10 PM, Anoop Atre wrote:
Nancy
Since we are on the Evergreen list I'd probably have stuck to answering
your initial question. We do want more folks trying out Evergreen : )
In any case as has been pointed out both Evergreen and Koha are capable of
fulfilling your needs. I don't have much experience with openbiblio so
can't speak to that solution.
On 12/07/2011 11:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
But I'm trying to find out how much these software support other
languages, in searches, cataloging, pulling down data from z39.30
servers from other countries, and webopac interfaces.
Evergreen and Koha match well and completely support the requirements you
mention above, Koha has a few more languages with different degrees of
completion [ http://translate.koha-community.org/ ]. Evergreen currently
has translations for Armenian, Czech, English (Canada), English (US),
French (Canada), Russian, and Spanish. Chinese as Dan/Ben mentioned has
been previously available and needs updating/inclusion into the current
releases. I'm sure you'd love to see your name listed as the contributor
who finished the Evergreen Chinese translation : )
I'd say you should give Evergreen a try and also check out the other
options, there are robust & helpful communities for each of them who can
help you along. As someone who is comfortable with Linux you will be fine
getting started. I'd begin with the demos but getting your hands dirty and
installing Evergreen (2.1 or latest) would give you the best feel for the
system as I'm sure you would have guessed.
There is an older virtual machine Dan Scott setup which you could download
and give a try if you want an easier path to testing it locally and even
try upgrading to 2.1 [ http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php#evergreen_vm
]. Here is some sample data Mike Peters made available [
http://help.evergreen.lib.in.us/generate-demodata.tar.gz ] and instructions
to load them into the database [ http://paste.lisp.org/display/124819 ].
Lately installing Evergreen has gotten easier but definitely needs an
understanding of Linux, right now most of us run it on Debian Squeeze or
Ubuntu Lucid. Installing Koha from scratch is about the same complexity, of
course it is available as a Debian package which helps quite a bit. We have
been trying to get Evergreen packaged into Debian and made some headway
over this past summer but not there yet. Setting up the library specific
rules is where Koha gets to be a bit more straight forward as I understand,
I have not looked into that much so this is based on what I've heard from
others.
As for comparing the systems, I should mention that the website Ian
mentioned lists an older version of Evergreen also...we are at 2.1 and 2.2
is being worked on currently. It's hard to really keep up comparisons
between fast moving open source systems on a minute level, but if you want
a big picture comparison the website does a decent job. Also I'd say just
because Koha is used more than Evergreen in the non-western world doesn't
make it the first choice, just means Koha has been around longer and being
the first open source library management system certainly gave it a wider
market adoption.
Hope this helps and I didn't ramble on too much!
Cheers
