Koha search #2

As I said in the previous post related to koha search system things are a bit more complicated than you might assume as someone using sql queries to do a search. Everything is done in Zebra and Zebra is a matter of indices. So where is MARC? Actually there are 3 files which should interest you: koha/etc/zebradb/biblios/etc/bib1.att which defines the list of possible Z39.50 attributes. This is definition of names, it does not means all are used....

June 14, 2010 · len

Koha search #1

For people used to web searches and database oriented application Koha way of dealing with searches (since v.3) might seem a bit alien. This is a small set of notes related to some not very obvious questions which I had to answer in order to do some configurations which seemed trivial at the beginning. I am not saying this is wrong or ineffective, just different and different means time to learn....

June 11, 2010 · len

Koha AMS integration

This describes the modifications which have been done to a standard Koha 2.2.5 installation in order to be provide a basic AMS integration for IMAR: “Simion Stoilow” Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy library system. AMS integration One of the requirements of the customization was to allow a basic AMS integration. For each ISBN code the corresponding AMS code had to be found using a crawler. This was achieved by a value_builder plugin which consists of 3 parts:...

March 21, 2007 · len