[Koha-devel] Coding Guideline proposal
Hi all- At the last developers meeting I volunteered to draft a proposal on Inclusive Language to the Koha community coding guidelines. The proposal is below along with some reasons why we would want to do this as well as a couple of resources for those wanting to do a deeper dive into the topic. Thanks! Joy Proposed addition to the Koha community coding guidelines to cover Inclusive Language. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#Terminology **proposed addition** TERM3: Inclusive Language Use inclusive language that promotes a community where everyone feels they are represented. Avoid terms that express or imply negative ideas that are racist, colonialist, or otherwise biased towards groups of people. Refer to the terminology list for terms to use/avoid. Example: Instead of using the term blacklist, use deny list which more accurately describes its function. **end proposed addition Explanation: At its best inclusive language promotes respectful relationships in a diverse community by allowing everyone to feel they are respected, represented, and welcome in the discussion. At a minimum inclusive language avoids offending others. In the U.S. (and possibly other countries) terms such as ‘blacklist’ reflect back the racist culture to the reader by equating the term black with 'bad' and white with ‘good’. The words we use in our communications have meaning, both explicit and implicit, and it’s important to consider how our words are being heard by others in our community. "Language is central to our experience of being human, and the languages we speak profoundly shape the way we think, the way we see the world, the way we live our lives." “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think”, Lera Boroditsky <https://www.edge.org/conversation/lera_boroditsky-how-does-our-language-shape-the-way-we-think> Resources on race and language in the US and New Zealand: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3868/15e565ec2d8191acb0dcb06ddb59c0780ef0.pdf Sites: New Series - Vol 13 No 2 2016 <http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol13iss2id326> Accounts of Blatant Racism Against Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand by Sylvia Pack1, Keith Tuffin2 & Antonia Lyons Understanding Systemic Racism in America, Smithsonian Magazine <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/158-resources-understanding-systemic-racism-america-180975029/> -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division she/her ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Koha release 19.11.06
Greetings! The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.06. It includes 23 enhancements and 122 bug fixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-06-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days. -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Maintenance Branches - String Freeze
Hello all! String Freeze will go into effect on Friday, May 15, 2020 for the 19.11, 19.05, 18.11 branches. Monthly releases for those branches will be out on Friday, May 22, 2020. Thank you! -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Koha release 19.11.05
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.05. It includes 15 enhancements, 77 bug fixes and 3 security patches. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-05-released/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] String Freeze
Hi all! String freeze will occur on April 15, 2020 23:59:00 UTC. Maintenance releases will go out the following week on April 22, 2020. Thanks joy -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] Koha release 19.11.04
Quick update. The last maintenance releases (19.11.04, 19.05.09, 18.11.15) also contain two security patches Authentication check missing on calendar tools https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24878 CSRF vulnerability in opac-messaging.pl https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24673 On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 3:56 PM Joy Nelson wrote: > Greetings! > > The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.04. > > It includes 1 new feature, 6 enhancements, 44 bug fixes. > > The new feature allows libraries to easily modify due dates for > checkouts. This was pushed to accommodate libraries needs during > Covid-19. This does contain some untranslated strings. Apologies for any > inconvenience this may cause. > > Details can be seen here: > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24846 > > The full release notes are available at > https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-04-release/ > > Debian packages will be updated within a few days > > > -- > Joy Nelson > President, Koha Division > > ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> > Support and Consulting for Open Source Software > Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 > What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> > > > -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Koha release 19.11.04
Greetings! The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.04. It includes 1 new feature, 6 enhancements, 44 bug fixes. The new feature allows libraries to easily modify due dates for checkouts. This was pushed to accommodate libraries needs during Covid-19. This does contain some untranslated strings. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Details can be seen here: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24846 The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-04-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] String Freeze Notice
Greetings! Just a quick note that string freeze will go into effect on 3/15/2020 for the maintenance branches. Maintenance releases scheduled for the 24th. -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Update to Koha 19.11.03 Release
Hello all! A quick update on the recent maintenance releases. All maintenance releases (18.11.14, 19.05.08, 19.11.03) contain a security update related to XSLT. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23290 "This patchset refines the XSLT processing configuration such that we are more secure by disallowing the processing of external stylesheets by default and adding a configuration option to re-enable the functionality." Cheers -joy On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 4:31 PM Joy Nelson wrote: > Greetings! > > The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.03. > > This is a maintenance release containing 7 enhancements and 78 bugfixes > > The full release notes are available at > https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-03-release/ > > Debian packages will be updated within a few days > > > Joy Nelson > President, Koha Division > > ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> > Support and Consulting for Open Source Software > Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 > What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> > > > -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Koha 19.11.03 Release
Greetings! The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.03. This is a maintenance release containing 7 enhancements and 78 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-03-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] String Freeze Notice
Greetings! Just a quick note that string freeze will go into effect on 2/15/2020 for the maintenance branches. Maintenance releases scheduled for the 22rd. Happy Valentines Day! -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Koha 19.11.02 released
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.02. This is a maintenance release which includes 13 enhancements, 48 bugfixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-02-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days. -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] String Freeze
Greetings! Just a quick note that string freeze is effect today 01/15/2020 for the maintenance branches. Maintenance releases scheduled for the 22rd. Let the translations begin! Thanks! joy -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Koha 19.11.01 release
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.01. This is a maintenance release containing 30 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-01-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days That just leaves me to wish everyone Happy Holidays and express my thanks to everyone involved in this release. Particularly Nick Clemens, Lucas Gass, and Martin Renvoize for stepping me through the various hoops in getting this done. Joy Nelson -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] String Freeze Notice
Greetings! Just a quick note that string freeze will go into effect at the end of day 12/16/2019 for the maintenance branches. Maintenance releases scheduled for the 23rd. Translations can begin on the 17th. Thanks! -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha 19.05.00 Released
Great work Nick!! On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:00 AM Lucas Gass wrote: > Great job Nick!!! > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:53 AM Nick Clemens > wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > It is with great pleasure that the Koha community announces the release > of > > Koha 19.05, a major release of the Koha open source integrated library > > system. > > > > This release (as always) is the work of many librarians, developers, and > > community members who donate their time and effort to the project. Their > > contributions help shape the release, and the project going forward. None > > of this would be possible without them, and my sincere thanks goes out to > > everyone who had a hand in the project > > > > Extra thanks to all who helped me with this release, and with getting > here > > to be the release manager for this version. I am so lucky to work with > such > > a great team on a wonderful project and look forward to helping make Koha > > better on each release. Excelsior! > > > > Read the full release notes here: > > https://koha-community.org/koha-18-11-release/ > > > > Debian packages will be available shortly, if you are following a suite > you > > will > > automatically upgrade to the next branch with this release, more info > here: > > > > > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian#Follow_a_suite:_stable.2C_oldstable_.E2.80.A6 > > > > Thank you all, > > Nick (kidclamp) > > > > -- > > Nick Clemens > > ByWater Solutions > > bywatersolutions.com > > Phone: (888) 900-8944 > > Pronouns: (he/him/his) > > Timezone: Eastern > > ___ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > k...@lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > ___ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > k...@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] QA topic experts
Katrin, I'm willing to be part of the QA topic expert team for Linked Data Joy On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 1:30 AM, Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi all, > > at the last Developer IRC meeting we discussed the idea of "QA topic > experts". > > QA topic experts will be people the QA team can approach to help out on > patches for specific areas of Koha, that for example are hard to test > without a certain environment. A second sign off from a QA topic expert > will count towards QA with additional code review from a core QA team > member where needed. > > We've found 2 experts for 18.11 so far: > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_18.11 > > Please let me know if you are interested in joining us as a QA topic > expert for a certain topic! > > Katrin > > ___ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Joy Nelson Vice President of Implementations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] no acces to debian.koha-community.org
Galen, Are you also working on the wiki.koha-community.org site? This is still down. -Joy On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Galen Charlton <g...@equinoxinitiative.org> wrote: > Hi, > > It is now back up. > > Regards, > > Galen > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Galen Charlton > <g...@equinoxinitiative.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm taking a look at this now; the VM appears to have fallen over after > a DOS. > > > > Regards, > > > > Galen > > > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Laurent Ducos > > <laurent.du...@biblibre.com> wrote: > >> always closed, Port 80 seems closed > >> > >> telnet debian.koha-community.org 80 > >> Trying 67.220.127.145... > >> > >> timeout > >> Laurent Ducos > >> Administrateur Systèmes et Réseaux > >> 0974770716 > >> 1 décembre 2017 15:28 "Michael Kuhn" <m...@adminkuhn.ch> a écrit: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>>>> Since about 1 hour I do not have access to debian.koha-community.org > from our public ip > >>>>> 91.121.55.79 > >>>>> Can you give us access again please? > >>>>> since others ip everything is ok > >>> > >>> Right now, http://debian.koha-community.org can be accessed again. > >>> > >>> Best wishes: Michael > >>> -- > >>> Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. > Fachausweis > >>> Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz > >>> T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E m...@adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch > >>> ___ > >>> Koha-devel mailing list > >>> Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > >>> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > >>> website : http://www.koha-community.org > >>> git : http://git.koha-community.org > >>> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org > >> ___ > >> Koha-devel mailing list > >> Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > >> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > >> git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > >> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > > > > > > > > -- > > Galen Charlton > > Infrastructure and Added Services Manager > > Equinox Open Library Initiative > > phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > > email: g...@equinoxinitiative.org > > web: https://equinoxInitiative.org > > direct: +1 770-709-5581 > > cell: +1 404-984-4366 > > > > -- > Galen Charlton > Infrastructure and Added Services Manager > Equinox Open Library Initiative > phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > email: g...@equinoxinitiative.org > web: https://equinoxInitiative.org > direct: +1 770-709-5581 > cell: +1 404-984-4366 > ___ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Joy Nelson Vice President, Director of Implementations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
[Koha-devel] Linked Data Discussion from Hackfest
Here's a quick recap of the linked data discussion we had at Hackfest in Marseille. It's a two part email: a little linked data background by me and technical discussion by Nick Clemens. Thanks! joy & nick Joy Nelson I gave a brief presentation on linked data and the benefits and potential challenges inherent in moving towards a linked data system. It was based loosely on the presentation given at KohaCon 2016 which can be viewed here: https://www.slideshare.net/talljoy/kohacon2016 We discussed some of the challenges in linked data. One of those is "Choice of Linked Data Vocabulary". In the U.S. the Library of Congress is developing BibFrame as a MARC replacement. Ideally, the system created would be 'vocabulary agnostic'. The Koha linked data system should allow users the ability to utilize one of many vocabularies or *any* vocabulary they wish. (bibframe, bf:lite, schema.org, dublin core, etc) Identifying the purpose of Linked Data is another area that needs discussion and some consensus. How do libraries envision themselves using this kind of data/system? -Do we create triplestores converted from MARC to store and allow those stores to be crawled? Thereby making a collection visible on the web in search results. -Do we concentrate on creating a system that allows for libraries to connect their data to other libraries, data stores external or internally? For example, Is the goal to link our authors and subject tags to URIs on the web that we can pull in to Koha and display more information to the user? -Do we create linked data URIs for special libraries (museums, academic institutions) to provide to other institutions and allow others to link into their system to gather data to display to their users? Linked Data is a fundamental shift in how we think about our data and how we will use that data. It is a much more cooperative venture in cataloging that will provide benefits to both staff and patrons. Nick Clemens I presented the basic work I have done on implementing a triplestore backend for Koha which can be found on github here: https://github.com/bywatersolutions/bywater-koha-devel/tree/RDF The code is very basic so far and does a few things: 1 - Implements Koha::RDF::Store as a base for which all individual backend implementations will be built 2 - Adds a beginning implementation of RDF::Trine to allow storage and retrieval of RDF triples 3 - A very basic form on the intranet details page to enter a predicate and subject (assuming the URL of the details page) as the object The code is a start and begins to raise a few of concerns which I see and what we need to do to continue. I am very interested in developing Koha/RDF in a way that is backend agnostic and allows for differing front end implementations. The next steps I see are: 1 - We must agree on a common set of subroutines that any backend will support. They will require basic CRUD and options for retrieving in various formats 2 - We will need to develop endpoints: A SPARQL endpoint, and REST endpoints for CRUD, and OAI endpoints 3 - We need to decide on how we will mint and serve URIs - we could continue to use the current details URLs and add parameters for format to supply triples or xml, however, for things like works and authors we will need some method of linking. Links with parameters are not as 'cool' as named or numbered URIs but provides the ability for linking our data out to other resources, making it crawlable, and internally linking. Once we can agree on building a base together, than we can all proceed to develop in different directions as we see fit and provide various options that can all be pursued without conflict or duplicated effort. -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] Introduction from Viktor
Excellent Viktor. I'm looking forward to seeing more of you in Koha. -joy On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:07 AM, viktor.sa...@regionhalland.se wrote: Dear subscribers of the devel list! My name is Viktor Sarge and as I am now extending my lurking about from IRC and the general list to this list I think a presentation might be in order. I work as a senior regional library development officer at the regional library of Halland in Sweden. I’ve been involved with Koha for a few years now and presently run a project trying to do as much as possible to make Koha a relevant free infrastructure for Swedish libraries. This includes both funding development in Koha and helping interested libraries get hold of the right information. The reason I subscribe to this list is that I want to learn more about the inner workings of Koha and plan to submit one or two line patches once in a while. I’m not really a programmer very often but am dusting of my old SQL and learning a bit of Perl to be able to better understand what’s going on. Some of you I have already met on IRC, the lists and KohaCon2012 but I look forward to follow the discussion here, learn and hopefully get to know some of you a little better in the process. I must say I’ve come to readjust my view of Koha over the years from the code being the valuable resource to the community being the most valuable part of Koha. Kind regards! /Viktor Sarge Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: viktor.sa...@regionhalland.se BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions http://bywatersolutions.com Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] Introducing - New member
Welcome Yohann! -joy On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Yohann Dufour yohann.duf...@biblibre.com wrote: Hello, I've subscribed to this mailing list because I'm a new trainee at BibLibre for the next 3 months. During this 3 months, my work will be to develop unit test, test and write patch. See you Yohann Dufour ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions http://bywatersolutions.com Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] Orphaned biblioitems
Paul, I can confirm something along the lines of what you are seeing. I've never been sure if this was cataloger error or Koha error though. What I've seen is that there is a row (i.e. biblionumber) in the biblio table but no corresponding biblionumber row in the biblioitems table. exists in biblio but not in biblioitems. Sounds like you are saying that you have a value in biblioitems for a biblionumber but not in the biblio table. My first instinct is that this would be a delete gone bad. or a merge gone awry. Perhaps starting there? I'm curious though if the biblionumber that you are not finding exists in the deleted biblio table??? -joy On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Paul A pau...@navalmarinearchive.comwrote: At 10:51 AM 5/1/2014 +1200, Robin Sheat wrote: Paul A schreef op wo 30-04-2014 om 10:03 [-0400]: Can anyone please suggest where I could start looking in the code for what might cause orphaned biblioitems? You're going to have to define what an orphaned biblioitem record is, because that SQL query doesn't seem to do anything that I'd relate to that term. Do you mean duplicate biblios? Sort of... sorry to be vague, so here's an example, the tail of the query (simplified to remove the html: mysql SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(biblionumber SEPARATOR ', ') AS BibNums, - EXTRACTVALUE(marcxml,'//controlfield[@tag=001]') AS Id FROM biblioitems - GROUP BY Id HAVING count(Id) 1; +-+--+ | BibNums | Id | +-+--+ [snip] | 22969, 19151| 8914106 | +-+--+ 31 rows in set (0.89 sec) gives me 2 biblio numbers (22969, 19151), both for John Toland's book The flying tigers which has the Library of Congress 001. A search in the staff page and the OPAC confirm that we only have one -- both show The Flying Tigers / (Record no. 22969) If I search for the other number as cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search. pl?q=biblionumber=19151 in the staff page I get No results found No results match your search for 'biblionumber=19151' in NMA Catalog. BUT... if I specifically go to /cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addb iblio.pl?biblionumber=19151, I get a biblio that our cataloguers either overwrote or deleted or whatever... And, because it's not findable in the staff page, it cannot be deleted without direct intervention in the MySQL db. I called it an orphaned biblioitem because, without looking for that LoC 001 in biblioitems, I would have had no clue that an unused record was floating around. All it's doing is finding the first biblionumber of a set where members have the same 001. This could just be cataloguing the same thing twice, or records with badly generated 001 entries, or something along those lines. I'm convinced that your thought cataloguing the same thing twice is correct -- quite often our cataloguers use Z39.50 to update/overwrite a biblio, but they swear blind that they always delete any previous record that still appears after re-indexing. That's why I'm intrigued about these orphans Thanks for your interest and best regards -- Paul ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions http://bywatersolutions.com Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] Please assist: auth values
Golly Paul! When you say that the volunteer deleted a loc value of rare book room, are you referring to the authorised value of rare book room? If so, then you should be able to simply re-add a location of rare book room to the authorised value list and be ok. When an authorised value is deleted, it does not delete the data in the items table (items.location) I'm not sure what you mean when you say so I can't re-enter the auth value which is no longer available for admin editing This is not been my experience with the authorised_values list. Are you finding data on a query like this? select barcode from items where location =enter the code you used for rarebooks or select distinct(location) from items-which will show you all the location values in use in the database. -joy On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Paul A pau...@navalmarinearchive.com wrote: Please can one of you assist? We are in the middle of shelving several hundred boxes of books, and seven volunteer cataloguers have spent the day editing items to change the auth value loc from box_xyz to the proper shelf/stack. At the end of the day, an enthusiastic volunteer instead of deleting an empty box from the loc values, accidentally deleted our rare book room (my fault, I gave him superlibrarian credentials instead of doing the job myself.) A search still finds: 628 result(s) found for 'mc-loc=2fl_rare' in NMA Catalog but this is (I think) coming from somewhere other than items.location. An sql query [SELECT * FROM authorised_values WHERE category='loc'] still finds the auth value: ... 1834 loc fl2_rare 2nd floor rare 2nd floor rare ... so I can't re-enter the auth value which is no longer available for admin editing; so editing these 628 items is impossible. The OPAC is no longer showing the location at all. The catastrophe level is that even if I revert to last nights backup, the volunteers tell me they have no way to pull them all (about 3,000 books) out and start over again. Can anyone, pretty please, suggest a course of action? Many thanks -- Paul ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] OPAC theme proposal
+1 On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Nicole Engard neng...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Tomas Cohen Arazi tomasco...@gmail.comwrote: +1 Six month seems enough for adjusting the css anyway. El 28/10/2013 14:32, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com escribió: Hi, Based on the feedback received last week, here is my current proposal for managing the OPAC themes: [1] We ship Bootstrap as the default theme for 3.14 for new installations. [2] We announce deprecation of prog and CCSR when 3.14 is released and issue a recommendation that libraries start switching to Bootstrap. [3] At the same time, we announce that prog and CCSR will be removed in 3.18. If some organization wishes to maintain either theme after then, they can do so, but as a separate contrib. However, if you are inclined to support either theme after they've been removed ... please think carefully about the amount of work that would entail. [4] The RM will assist in getting OPAC template patches in the pipeline that were written for prog updated to support Bootstrap as well. [5] Starting with the 3.16, new OPAC patches should be targeted for Bootstrap first. During the 3.16 cycle, contributors are requested to make an effort to update the prog theme as well, particularly for new features, but this is a request, not a requirement. In other words, this means that for 3.16, libraries may need to switch to Bootstrap to take full advantage of new OPAC functionality, but the prog theme will continue to be functional. [6] During the 3.18 cycle, no patches will be pushed for prog except insofar as they may be needed to fix security issues in the maintenance releases. Before 3.18 is released, prog and CCSR will be taken out entirely. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions http://bywatersolutions.com Support and Consulting for Open Source Software **Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] OPAC theme defaults for 3.14
I agree with Nicole. One release cycle is probably not adequate. -joy On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Nicole Engard neng...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Owen Leonard oleon...@myacpl.org wrote: I don't want to have to maintain them both any longer than necessary, but I recognize that porting over customizations could be time-consuming. I think we need some sort of announcement that this is officially going to be deprecated so that we have time to port the customizations from both themes, but I don't think that one release cycle is enough. Nicole ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions http://bywatersolutions.com Support and Consulting for Open Source Software **Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] 952$j
Paul- If you are using the $i and it is linked in the maps and frameworks to items.stack, you may be having a problem since the stack field is a tinyint field and can't hold the data you are using. You may want to consider using the stocknumber field in the items table. I have been able to add data using the $j (stocknumber) field (through importing data- editing the items was not my priority in that particular usage). Joy Nelson On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Paul pau...@aandc.org wrote: Our cataloguers have asked for additional precision in specific stacks -- 952$j Shelving control number would appear to be perfect :=) However, any value entered (eg: LLF15 -- loose leaf folder #15) systematically saves as 0 and SchemaSpy doesn't appear to even mention this field which is in the default template with no apparent restrictions. Can anyone with good corporate memory of 952$j use and programming please assist? Many thanks and best regards -- Paul __**_ Koha-devel mailing list koha-de...@lists.koha-**community.orgKoha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.**org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**koha-develhttp://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.**org/ http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions http://bywatersolutions.com Support and Consulting for Open Source Software **Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Re: [Koha-devel] biblio and biblioitems
I'm all for seeing biblioitems disappear. The only bib of data that I reference (in migration or support work) is the biblioitems.itype and biblioitems.marcxml. A lot of the other fields appear to be dupes of items (volumenumber, volumedate, etc.) or more correctly belong in biblio (isbn, publication year, etc). I like Galen's idea of the biblio_metadata table and dropping (or moving as appropriate) columns from biblioitems as seems appropriate. Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions http://bywatersolutions.com Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/ On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Mathieu Saby mathieu.s...@univ-rennes2.fr wrote: Thank you. So, just to know, do you think it would be 1. - a total waste of time ? 2. - a strange idea ? 3. - a good idea (for performance and code maintenance) ? 4. - harmful ? to merge the biblio and biblioitem tables ? My gut feeling is #3, but a lot of testing would be needed to avoid #4. Possibly one way to reduce risk and improve testability would be to move columns over to biblio one at a time. Here are a couple additional thoughts if we undertake this: [1] We should decide whether we want to keep both bibilioitems.marc and biblioitems.marcxml. I think we can get rid of the former. [2] Even if we merge the tables, I think we should still keep the marcxml column in its own table, e.g., one called biblio_metadata: CREATE TABLE biblio_metadata ( biblio_metadata_id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT; -- for the future! biblionumber INTEGER, metadata_type VARCHAR(10), -- for the future! blob LONGTEXT NOT NULL, -- and relevant FK contraints ); The bits about slipping in multi-metadata-schema support aside, for many queries there's no reason to pull in largish XML columns. [3] We should see if we can drop some columns. As a rule of thumb, I suggest that if a biblio/bilbioitems column isn't referred to in the code. any of the default MARC frameworks, or the SQL reports library, it's probably not being used. ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
