| Time |
S |
Nick |
Message |
| 16:40 |
|
owen |
hi rach, hi tim |
| 16:40 |
|
rach |
hi owen & tim |
| 16:40 |
|
rach |
and paul and all :-) |
| 16:42 |
|
rach |
ah right :-) |
| 16:42 |
|
rach |
so not sure yet if I'm live |
| 16:43 |
|
chris |
morning all |
| 16:43 |
|
owen |
chirs must have builders too :) |
| 16:43 |
|
chris |
just dogs |
| 16:45 |
|
rach |
my big dog olive is helping me type this mroning |
| 16:45 |
|
rach |
she doesn't like the nail guns, and is being a big scardey pants |
| 16:46 |
|
rach |
that is true |
| 16:46 |
|
tim |
Hi everyone |
| 16:46 |
|
rach |
hi tim |
| 17:01 |
|
owen |
chris, did you find out if Joshua had done any work on the Gutenburg idea? |
| 17:47 |
|
chris |
morning rosalie |
| 17:49 |
|
rosa |
morning CHrias |
| 17:49 |
|
rosa |
Chris, even |
| 17:49 |
|
rach |
morning rosalie |
| 17:50 |
|
rosa |
Hi |
| 17:52 |
|
kados |
hi everyone |
| 17:52 |
|
kados |
owen still around? |
| 17:53 |
|
owen |
yes |
| 17:53 |
|
kados |
I haven't worked on Gutenberg yet has chris? |
| 17:53 |
|
kados |
I could do some this afternoon if chris hasn't |
| 17:53 |
|
chris |
nope not yet |
| 17:53 |
|
kados |
righto |
| 17:53 |
|
kados |
I'll get to it then |
| 17:54 |
|
chris |
well, i downloaded the rdf and the parser script and thought about how to do it, but havent done anything yet |
| 17:54 |
|
kados |
yea that's about as far as I got last time I looked at things |
| 17:55 |
|
kados |
owen is your internet down? |
| 17:55 |
|
owen |
Crawling. |
| 17:56 |
|
owen |
If it was down you'd know because I wouldn't be able to answer :) |
| 17:56 |
|
kados |
huh ... my script is saying that it's down ... |
| 17:58 |
|
kados |
huh I'm getting 80% packet loss ... something's up |
| 18:12 |
|
chris |
joshua, did you see there is an rss feed from project gutenberg with the recently added books .. so we could set up a cron job to fetch that and load the data every couple of days .. (after we do the initial population) |
| 18:14 |
|
kados |
chris: yea I did see that (and I'm subscribed ;-)) good idea ... |
| 18:14 |
|
chris |
:) |
| 18:16 |
|
chris |
hmm ones out of copyright .. like an art version of project gutenberg? |
| 18:18 |
|
owen |
Sure. The trouble with my idea is that most everything is owned by institutions that want to profit from the reproduction of that art. |
| 18:18 |
|
chris |
tis true |
| 18:19 |
|
chris |
im sure my wife would absolutely love a resource like that, for when she is teaching art history |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
hehe |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
perl -MCPAN -e install XML::LibXML |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
The installed version of libxml2 is known not to work. |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
|
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
The installed version was tested and prooved not as stable |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
|
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
Don't expect XML::LibXML to build or work correctly. |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
Don't report errors!!! |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
Don't send patches! |
| 18:30 |
|
kados |
hehe |
| 18:31 |
|
chris |
do they tell you what version works? |
| 18:32 |
|
kados |
nope |
| 18:32 |
|
chris |
thats helpful :) |
| 18:36 |
|
kados |
it installed find on my sarge machine ... strange |
| 18:36 |
|
owen |
Can I ask a Perl question? I'm looking at detail.pl, line 47: my $dat=bibdata($biblionumber); |
| 18:37 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 18:37 |
|
owen |
Then further down it says: my @results; $results[0]=$dat; |
| 18:38 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 18:38 |
|
owen |
What is going on here? Some kind of conversion between two different kind of structures? |
| 18:38 |
|
chris |
pretty much yep |
| 18:38 |
|
chris |
well its making an array results |
| 18:38 |
|
chris |
and making $dat be the first item of the array |
| 18:39 |
|
chris |
this is because a <TMPL_LOOP in html::template |
| 18:39 |
|
chris |
expects to be passed a reference to an array |
| 18:39 |
|
owen |
...and before it wasn't an array, it was a hash? |
| 18:39 |
|
chris |
it was a reference to a hash |
| 18:40 |
|
chris |
do you understand references owen? |
| 18:40 |
|
owen |
Not well enough :) |
| 18:40 |
|
chris |
they are like pointers in C .. if that helps |
| 18:40 |
|
chris |
i think of them as a variable that points to something |
| 18:41 |
|
chris |
so we might have a hash |
| 18:41 |
|
chris |
which might be quite big |
| 18:41 |
|
chris |
we dont want to have to pass that around between subroutines |
| 18:41 |
|
chris |
so we pass something that points (references) that hash instead |
| 18:43 |
|
chris |
then we can dereference it, to get the data |
| 18:43 |
|
chris |
eg |
| 18:43 |
|
chris |
$dat->{'additional'} |
| 18:43 |
|
chris |
i hope that is some help, rather than just more confusing :) |
| 18:44 |
|
owen |
So the hash itself is a bunch of stuff in memory that can't be talked about (in its entirety) except through a reference |
| 18:45 |
|
chris |
sorta, we could pass the whole hash around .. but its more efficient to just past the address of where it lives in memory (the reference) instead |
| 18:45 |
|
chris |
past=pass |
| 18:45 |
|
chris |
so in the bibdata subroutine, we will create a hash, populate it |
| 18:46 |
|
chris |
and then return a reference to it |
| 18:46 |
|
chris |
we could just return the hash if we wanted |
| 18:46 |
|
owen |
And to pass the whole hash around you'd have to specify each element like $dat->{'additional'} = "something", etc. |
| 18:47 |
|
chris |
youd go return (%hash); |
| 18:47 |
|
chris |
and then line 47 would look like this |
| 18:48 |
|
chris |
my %dat=bibdata($biblionumber); |
| 18:49 |
|
chris |
and we could get to the elements as $dat{'addiotional'} note the no -> (thats a dereference) |
| 18:49 |
|
chris |
so its not any harder for the programmer |
| 18:49 |
|
chris |
it just means perl has to work harder |
| 18:49 |
|
owen |
I guess it was the $dat (rather than the %dat) that was throwing me off in the first place. |
| 18:49 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 18:50 |
|
chris |
sweet joshua |
| 18:50 |
|
owen |
What I was trying to do was get biblio.title to show up in MARCdetail.pl, so I was trying adding the bibdata() subroutine. |
| 18:50 |
|
kados |
so chris any thoughts on how best to insert the data into Koha? |
| 18:51 |
|
kados |
it's coming out as : |
| 18:51 |
|
kados |
14006 |
| 18:51 |
|
kados |
title: An English Grammar |
| 18:51 |
|
kados |
author: Baskervill, W. M. (William Malone) (1850-1899) |
| 18:51 |
|
kados |
author: Sewell, J. W. (James Witt) |
| 18:51 |
|
owen |
Maybe that's too much work, though. The trouble is that MARCdetail.pl buries the individual tag data in a bunch of loops so you can't access the 245 tag directly. |
| 18:51 |
|
chris |
right |
| 18:51 |
|
kados |
where the top line (or variable) is the etext number and we can easily build a url string from that ... |
| 18:52 |
|
chris |
joshua: yep |
| 18:52 |
|
chris |
now if we wanted to we could just build a biblio and biblioitem and use the routines in C4::Biblio to get them in |
| 18:53 |
|
chris |
but its probably best to query koha with the title to see if it exists |
| 18:55 |
|
kados |
do we have a marc21 export function? |
| 18:55 |
|
kados |
cause if we do I'm thinking of just starting with a fresh database |
| 18:55 |
|
kados |
building biblio and biblioitem |
| 18:55 |
|
kados |
exporting in marc21 |
| 18:56 |
|
kados |
and then importing into any marc21 koha using pauls handy bulkmarcimport |
| 18:56 |
|
chris |
thatd work |
| 18:57 |
|
kados |
why was it important to query koha first chris? |
| 18:57 |
|
chris |
oh i was just thinking to write a script that will load into an existing db |
| 18:58 |
|
kados |
well that may be easier than messing with marc |
| 18:58 |
|
chris |
so if the biblio already exists |
| 18:58 |
|
kados |
since we've only got title and author |
| 18:58 |
|
chris |
it just makes a biblioitem and attaches that |
| 18:58 |
|
kados |
right |
| 18:58 |
|
kados |
now I get it |
| 18:59 |
|
chris |
im not sure how well it will work .. but if it logs what it does we can use that to figure out if we need to get it to prompt for human input too |
| 18:59 |
|
chris |
ie "sometitle" matches these 3 biblios .. which one is it |
| 19:00 |
|
kados |
yea the smallest spelling difs can screw things up :-) |
| 19:00 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 19:00 |
|
kados |
so I reckon most of the routines are written in C4::Biblio ... |
| 19:01 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 19:01 |
|
kados |
here's the parser script: |
| 19:01 |
|
chris |
i have written a few scripts to munge data |
| 19:01 |
|
kados |
http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds[…]-parse-example.pl |
| 19:01 |
|
chris |
from various text files, into koha |
| 19:01 |
|
kados |
I'm thinking of just adding on to that script and replacing the last while with our stuff ... sound good? |
| 19:01 |
|
chris |
sounds fine to me |
| 19:03 |
|
kados |
so what scripts do you have already written? |
| 19:03 |
|
chris |
well we need to do something like this |
| 19:03 |
|
chris |
my $biblio = { |
| 19:03 |
|
chris |
title => $title |
| 19:03 |
|
chris |
author => $author, |
| 19:03 |
|
chris |
$biblionumber = &newbiblio($biblio); |
| 19:04 |
|
chris |
my $biblioitem = { |
| 19:04 |
|
chris |
biblionumber => $biblionumber, |
| 19:04 |
|
chris |
... |
| 19:04 |
|
chris |
}; |
| 19:04 |
|
kados |
hmmm, a loopdeeloop |
| 19:04 |
|
kados |
:-) |
| 19:04 |
|
chris |
just building some hashes |
| 19:05 |
|
chris |
$biblioitemnumber = &newbiblioitem($biblioitem); |
| 19:05 |
|
chris |
thats pretty much how to get them into the db |
| 19:06 |
|
kados |
I"m not quite groking that third line |
| 19:06 |
|
chris |
sorry it should be |
| 19:07 |
|
chris |
my $biblio = { |
| 19:07 |
|
chris |
title => $title, |
| 19:07 |
|
chris |
author => $author |
| 19:07 |
|
chris |
} |
| 19:07 |
|
kados |
right :-) |
| 19:07 |
|
chris |
$biblionumber = &newbiblio($biblio); |
| 19:07 |
|
chris |
we'd probably want to get the additional authors in as well |
| 19:08 |
|
kados |
and additional titles (it happens) |
| 19:08 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 19:14 |
|
JYL57 |
Hello koha world, needing assistance for a 'MARC Check' message that I don't understand... |
| 19:15 |
|
JYL57 |
The message says : '...must all be in the 10 (items) tab' |
| 19:15 |
|
JYL57 |
What does it mean ?! |
| 19:15 |
|
kados |
do you have info on the ... ? |
| 19:15 |
|
JYL57 |
Yes |
| 19:16 |
|
kados |
that may help :-) |
| 19:16 |
|
JYL57 |
items fields |
| 19:16 |
|
JYL57 |
ALL items fields MUST : |
| 19:16 |
|
JYL57 |
1) be mapped to the same tag (995 I'm presuming...) |
| 19:17 |
|
JYL57 |
But what is the 10 tab |
| 19:17 |
|
kados |
could you print the entire message? |
| 19:17 |
|
JYL57 |
I'm adjusting my mapping to Koha DB fields using bulkmarcimport |
| 19:17 |
|
kados |
s/print/paste/ |
| 19:18 |
|
JYL57 |
Not that easily cause my proxy config fails to let ksirc working |
| 19:18 |
|
kados |
well there's always the list (might be better anyway since paul's not around ) |
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
the message is as said on the second line of the checkmarc screen |
| 19:19 |
|
kados |
I don't know that screen too well ... |
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
Test Result |
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
OK itemnum : the field itemnumber is mapped to a field in tab -1 |
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
item fields ALL items fields MUST : |
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
be mapped to the same tag, |
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab |
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
|
| 19:19 |
|
JYL57 |
OK itemtypes table filled with at least 1 value |
| 19:20 |
|
JYL57 |
That the copy from my IE browser ! |
| 19:20 |
|
kados |
ok thanks |
| 19:20 |
|
kados |
hmmm |
| 19:21 |
|
kados |
ok I think the 10 (items) tab will be in your marc mappings (on the KOha intramet) |
| 19:21 |
|
kados |
and it seems that perhaps your items fields aren't all mapped to the same tag ... |
| 19:22 |
|
JYL57 |
I can copy here the Koha to Unimarc mapping ! |
| 19:22 |
|
JYL57 |
It is always linked to 995 Tag |
| 19:22 |
|
kados |
what is always linked to 995? |
| 19:22 |
|
JYL57 |
no problem Unimarc or marc21 should be treated same way by the control script |
| 19:23 |
|
JYL57 |
all fields of the items table in the mapping |
| 19:23 |
|
chris |
right off to do koha training |
| 19:23 |
|
kados |
thanks chris ... I'll see what I can hack together |
| 19:23 |
|
kados |
I'm sure I'll have some questions :-) |
| 19:24 |
|
JYL57 |
what do you mean chris ?! any idea ?! |
| 19:26 |
|
kados |
JyL57: perhaps it's best to ask your question to the list ... paul would be your best bet since he wrote the bulkmarcimport script |
| 19:27 |
|
JYL57 |
the problem isn't linked to the bulkmarcimport which is doing is job quite good now |
| 19:27 |
|
JYL57 |
It's more related to existing koha intranet Check Marc function |
| 19:27 |
|
JYL57 |
But that doesn't seem to break the DB or block the import anyway... |
| 19:28 |
|
owen |
...and Paul wrote that too |
| 19:28 |
|
JYL57 |
Ok, he will surely answer me later... Thanks for your support |
| 19:31 |
|
owen |
MARC mapping is a real pain. There must be an easier way to do it. |
| 19:32 |
|
owen |
It's a real barrier to success for people trying out Koha for the first time |
| 19:34 |
|
JYL57 |
yes owen, Paul has already proposed some pre-defined mapping I think |
| 19:35 |
|
JYL57 |
I already reused and learned from it in my work here |
| 20:02 |
|
kados |
chris are you still about? |
| 20:03 |
|
chris |
doing koha training for a new koha using library |
| 20:03 |
|
chris |
sup? |
| 20:03 |
|
chris |
ahh, biblioitem url |
| 20:03 |
|
kados |
great ... thanks |
| 20:04 |
|
kados |
do you know of a routine to do it or should I write one? |
| 20:04 |
|
chris |
you can do it with newbiblioitems |
| 20:05 |
|
chris |
so u make ur biblioitem ref |
| 20:05 |
|
chris |
and have url => "somethign" |
| 20:05 |
|
chris |
then call newbiblioitem in C4::Biblio |
| 20:06 |
|
kados |
ahh that's easy |
| 20:06 |
|
kados |
thanks |
| 20:13 |
|
kados |
that's strange |
| 20:13 |
|
kados |
DBD::mysql::db do failed: Access denied for user: 'kohaadmin localhost' to database 'Koha' at /build/koha/C4/Biblio.pm line 332. |
| 20:13 |
|
chris |
ahh this is a bug |
| 20:13 |
|
chris |
in Install.pm |
| 20:13 |
|
chris |
its not setting the mysql privileges properly |
| 20:13 |
|
kados |
ahh |
| 20:13 |
|
chris |
C4::Biblio makes a lock tables call |
| 20:14 |
|
kados |
I may be able to fix it manyally in mysql table right? |
| 20:14 |
|
chris |
and Install.pm doesnt give the kohaadmin user lock_tables priv |
| 20:14 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 20:14 |
|
chris |
u just need to jump into the mysql db and fix it |
| 20:16 |
|
kados |
something like "Grant all on Koha to kohaadminlocalhost identified by ""; |
| 20:16 |
|
chris |
that oughta do it |
| 20:16 |
|
chris |
or just grant lock_tables perhaps |
| 20:18 |
|
chris |
im old school and just go update db set lock_tables_priv='Y' where username='kohaadmin'; |
| 20:18 |
|
kados |
hmmm that's giving me an error |
| 20:18 |
|
chris |
then mysqladmin reload |
| 20:19 |
|
kados |
seems to have worked now |
| 20:19 |
|
kados |
I forgot to reload mysql :-) |
| 20:19 |
|
chris |
:) |
| 20:20 |
|
kados |
well it seems to have worked |
| 20:20 |
|
kados |
http://66.213.78.101/cgi-bin/k[…]ail.pl?bib=147456 |
| 20:21 |
|
kados |
that's one of the records (I used a reduced set) |
| 20:21 |
|
kados |
but there's no url displaying is that a template problem? |
| 20:21 |
|
chris |
could be |
| 20:21 |
|
kados |
boy, adding that to the book bag would be interesting :-) |
| 20:22 |
|
chris |
ahh what itemtype is it? |
| 20:22 |
|
kados |
I didn't set the itemtype dou! |
| 20:22 |
|
chris |
that might do it |
| 20:22 |
|
chris |
try making it itemtype='WEB' perhaps |
| 20:23 |
|
kados |
biblioitem, right? |
| 20:23 |
|
chris |
yep |
| 20:23 |
|
chris |
ull need the itemtype set up in itemtypes as well i guess |
| 20:24 |
|
kados |
right |
| 20:28 |
|
kados |
sigh ... add item type seems not to be working ... /me goes and checks the log |
| 20:29 |
|
kados |
hmmm, no errors |
| 20:33 |
|
chris |
might be just a template thing |
| 20:34 |
|
chris |
is there a <TMPL_VAR NAME="url"> anywhere in the template? |
| 20:35 |
|
kados |
I haven't checked but there's no WEB itemtype |
| 20:36 |
|
chris |
ahh might have to make one, see if that works |
| 20:38 |
|
kados |
hehe I added the tmplvar and it worked: |
| 20:39 |
|
kados |
http://66.213.78.101/cgi-bin/k[…]ail.pl?bib=147478 |
| 20:39 |
|
kados |
now I'll need to package that in a nice <a href= and we've got a proof of concept :-) |
| 20:40 |
|
chris |
:) |
| 20:40 |
|
kados |
thanks for the help chris |
| 20:40 |
|
chris |
no worries |
| 21:23 |
|
tungsten |
chris |
| 21:23 |
|
chris |
yes? |
| 21:24 |
|
tungsten |
I'm ready to put patron data in |
| 21:24 |
|
tungsten |
I see that borrowers have select,insert,update,references as priv |
| 21:25 |
|
chris |
they do? |
| 21:25 |
|
tungsten |
I need around seven items to track not the or forty in the table |
| 21:25 |
|
tungsten |
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~[…]sql/borrowers.txt |
| 21:26 |
|
chris |
i dont think those columns are used |
| 21:26 |
|
tungsten |
rather than reor my data wouldn't be easier to get rid of every thing I don't need in koha? |
| 21:27 |
|
chris |
not really |
| 21:27 |
|
tungsten |
I'd end up with a ton of null defines |
| 21:27 |
|
chris |
yep thats fine |
| 21:27 |
|
chris |
changing the structure of tables will mean u will have to change scripts |
| 21:27 |
|
tungsten |
ok |
| 21:29 |
|
tungsten |
I can't at the moment think how to put all the nulls in between what I need but more importanly what I have data for |
| 21:29 |
|
tungsten |
what tool would you suggest |
| 21:30 |
|
chris |
there is no koha tool for importing borrower data |
| 21:31 |
|
chris |
because every system stores their borrower data differently |
| 21:31 |
|
chris |
so youd probably have to write one that makes a series of inserts into the borrowers table |
| 21:32 |
|
tungsten |
thanks |
| 05:20 |
|
paul |
hello rach |
| 05:21 |
|
paul |
good evening |
| 10:40 |
|
kados |
paul still around? |
| 10:40 |
|
paul |
yes |
| 10:41 |
|
kados |
stephen said you need a mysql dump? |
| 10:41 |
|
paul |
uploading Koha 2.2.00RC1 ;-) |
| 10:41 |
|
kados |
let me know what it is and I'll do it |
| 10:41 |
|
kados |
great! |
| 10:41 |
|
kados |
ok ... if you still need it let me know :-) |
| 10:41 |
|
paul |
maybe |
| 10:42 |
|
paul |
it's to have your marc_*_structure |
| 10:42 |
|
paul |
and auth_*_structure tables |
| 10:42 |
|
paul |
or maybe it's to have a fresh & working install for later tests... |
| 10:42 |
|
paul |
I definetly don't remember... |
| 10:42 |
|
kados |
:-) |
| 10:45 |
|
paul |
another question : |
| 10:46 |
|
paul |
should I remove npl templates from official release ? |
| 10:47 |
|
kados |
I've got to head out for about an hour or so ... any other questions before I go? |
| 10:48 |
|
paul |
no |
| 10:48 |
|
paul |
2.2.0RC1 will be here when you come back |
| 10:48 |
|
kados |
:-) |
