Time Nick Message 16:34 slef hi saorge 17:07 hm hi... was just wondering whether someone knows of a vmware image with koha 2.2.9 pre-installed ?\ 17:08 owen hm, I thought I just saw something on the mailing list about that... 17:10 owen http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha/koha-virtual-appliance/ 17:12 hm :) i c ... i was actually wondering if anyone wanted mine of koha 2.2.9 on centos 4.4 vmware ... na way since it already exists one theres no need for mine! 17:21 martinmorris evening all got a quick newbie question :) 17:21 martinmorris i want the call number for a book to always be the UDC number i put in (because that's how the library works) 17:21 martinmorris is the way to do that easy and am I being thick in not finding it? 17:24 jaron there are a couple of different places for call numbers that koha uses 17:24 jaron the 942 is in the bib record 17:24 martinmorris i've been trying the iteamcallnumber field in the system preferences 17:25 martinmorris tried putting in both 080a and 080$a 17:25 jaron all your item stuff probably needs to be in the same field 17:25 martinmorris how do you mean? 17:26 jaron i think all the item level information should be mapped to a single field (952) 17:27 martinmorris ok, i'm wondering how to do that 17:27 jaron two ways you can go about that 17:27 martinmorris right... 17:27 jaron either in your MARC framework 17:28 jaron or, erm, that other place I can't think of right now :) 17:28 jaron I'm not at my Koha machine 17:28 slef martinmorris: btw, will your library be on http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=kohausers soon? 17:28 martinmorris hehe fair enough 17:29 martinmorris yes it will slef - but i've a fair bit of cataloguing to do first! and some learning too 17:29 martinmorris and the honorary librarian will need some help getting used to it too 17:30 martinmorris anyway, 942 only seems to offer dewey or LCC 17:30 jaron right 17:30 jaron look in 952 17:31 jaron there are several call number fields mapped to there by default 17:31 martinmorris and library school didn't cover the depths of every marc tag :) 17:31 martinmorris ah, that's better 17:31 jaron well, the 9XX are local use fields so you wouldn't have covered those much ;) 17:32 martinmorris fair enough :) 17:32 martinmorris so something in 952 will be mapped to my UDC classification? 17:33 martinmorris i'm seeing it's got the barcode and holding branch 17:33 jaron something in your 952 will be mapped to a Koha table--think of it as mapped to a variable 17:33 jaron something like itemcallnumber 17:34 martinmorris ok let me take a llok 17:34 martinmorris look 17:34 jaron I think you'll have to move your call number down to the 952 into the correct subfield 17:36 jaron or have the biblio call number mapped to your UDC classification and use the biblio call number in appropriately your templates 17:37 jaron s/in appropriately/appropriately in/ 17:37 jaron what I do is run my records through a script that moves the dewey call number down to the proper 952 fields 17:38 martinmorris two secs 17:39 jaron martinmorris: if you have records in Koha and then you change the framework you'll want to make sure to rebuildnonmarc before looking at the results 17:39 jaron just ignore me until you read the scrollback :) 17:41 martinmorris sorry jaron trying to get off the phone! :) 17:41 jaron no prob 17:42 martinmorris oh, my koha server has just crashed 17:42 martinmorris rebooting it 17:43 slef ow 17:43 slef that shouldn't happen - what is it? 17:44 martinmorris it's just a little machine i'm using to play with while i build the library's new system 17:44 jaron what distro? 17:44 slef Which distribution? 17:44 slef heh 17:45 martinmorris ubuntu 17:45 martinmorris it's been fine for months 17:45 slef wow... did you see why it crashed? 17:46 martinmorris waiting for it to come back up 17:52 martinmorris looks like i forget it's a dhcp'd ip address :) 17:52 martinmorris i forgot even 17:54 martinmorris yep, it did an address refresh and teh address changed, how silly :) 17:54 martinmorris *blush* 17:59 martinmorris anyway, i see that 952k is mapped to items.itemcallnumber 18:01 martinmorris but that there' snothing in 952k when i view the MARC record 18:01 jaron you'll have to put something in there, right? 18:01 martinmorris do i have to do that manually, i can't just tell it i want teh contents of 080a in there? 18:02 jaron read over the scrollback for my other suggestion 18:02 martinmorris ok 18:09 martinmorris so i think the second option would be better, i definitely want teh UDC number to be on 080a so if i can map the call number to that it would be good 18:10 jaron then map the biblio callnumber or whatever it's called to where your classification number is now 18:10 martinmorris that's the itemcallnumber 18:10 martinmorris i've done that already 18:10 jaron itemcallnumber MUST be mapped to 952 somewhere with the rest of your item information 18:10 jaron AFAIK 18:11 jaron you're looking for a bibliocallnumber 18:11 jaron or something like that 18:11 martinmorris OK, two secs 18:11 martinmorris that's different from itemcallnumber then 18:11 jaron yes 18:11 jaron and is used differently in the templates too 18:11 martinmorris ok having a look 18:12 jaron in other words you can have both a biblio call num and an item call num 18:12 jaron that helps out some libraries with different classification depending on library 18:12 jaron from what I understand 18:12 jaron that is some libraries have branches which will want to use different call numbers 18:13 martinmorris right, that doesn't apply to me but thanks for the explanation 18:15 martinmorris 942j is currently mapped to biblioitems.classification 18:15 jaron I think that's the one 18:15 martinmorris so i want to map that to 952k instead? 18:15 jaron change biblioitems.classification to the field where you classification will be 18:15 dewey jaron: that doesn't look right 18:16 jaron be quiet, dewey. 18:16 dewey jaron: what? 18:16 jaron dewey: shush 18:16 dewey jaron: excuse me? 18:17 martinmorris i've stopped for a second... 18:18 martinmorris am i changing biblioitems.classification from 942j to 952k? 18:19 jaron biblioitems.classification to 082a or wherever you classification lives now 18:19 jaron I think that's what you want 18:20 martinmorris 080a 18:20 jaron so go to 080a 18:20 martinmorris after which i have to rebuild marc 18:20 jaron yes 18:20 jaron rebuildnonmarc methinks 18:22 martinmorris it's not finding C4/Context.pm 18:22 martinmorris is there an environment variable i need to be setting? 18:22 jaron export PERL5LIB= 18:22 martinmorris ah, of course, thanks! 18:23 jaron for me: export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules 18:24 martinmorris it's doing something :) 18:24 martinmorris *nervous* 18:24 jaron yes, 'something' is not always good :) 18:24 martinmorris hey, it worked :) 18:24 martinmorris thanks, learned something about the guts of koha there - thanks 18:25 jaron sure 18:25 martinmorris now, if i want 952k to automatically be the same as 080a....? 18:26 martinmorris i have to map that too within the marc structure? 18:26 jaron the marc structure can't do that, methinks 18:26 martinmorris right 18:26 jaron a script could though 18:26 martinmorris oh i can do that in the database easily enough 18:26 jaron koha allows for plugins 18:26 martinmorris i just wondered if koha had a native way of doing it 18:37 slef can use perl -I rather than export PERL5LIB for a one-off command 18:38 jaron slef: good to know, thanks 18:53 owen kyle_: are you not seeding that koha vmware image anymore? 19:10 slef and business letters are even more important, if a bit tedious 00:00 martinmorris hello me again, got a problem importing some MARC records i've generated 00:00 martinmorris i'm using the intranet, and getting this message in my koha-error.log 00:01 martinmorris [Wed Jun 27 00:59:49 2007] [error] [client 10.0.0.202] malformed header from script. Bad header=MARCRECORDMARCRECORDMARCRECORD: breeding.pl, referer: http://d 00:01 martinmorris az:8080/cgi-bin/koha/import/breeding.pl 00:01 martinmorris if anybody's there and knows what that means i'd love to know too 00:01 martinmorris the records are generated in USMARC format and i'm select MARC21 at the import screen 00:01 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> hmm, you might have to ask that one on the mailing list 00:02 martinmorris i thought so 00:02 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> lots of MARC guru's on there 00:02 martinmorris it's about 5,000 records in one file, that's OK I take it? 00:02 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> yeah ive done 300,000 + 00:02 martinmorris and there's some unicode characters in there too 00:03 martinmorris is there any way i can up the logging level to see more information? 00:03 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> not that im aware of 00:03 martinmorris ok 00:12 jaron martinmorris: are you trying to import into the reservoir? 00:12 martinmorris i believe so, yes 00:13 jaron try the same records with bulkmarcimport.pl and see what you get 00:13 martinmorris ok :) 00:13 jaron is you database utf8? 00:13 martinmorris they import into OpenBiblio fine i notice incidentally 00:13 martinmorris yes it is 00:14 jaron ok, if your leader byte 9 is encoded correctly bulkmarcimport will take care of conversion from marc8 to utf8 00:14 jaron or at least should :) 00:14 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> they are full records you want straight in the catalogue eh? 00:14 jaron character encoding is a pain 00:14 martinmorris yes they are [k] 00:14 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> not ones you want in the reserviour 00:14 martinmorris the 000 header was automatically created by MARC::Record 00:14 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> cool, just checking 00:15 jaron [k] is a bot 00:15 martinmorris well, ideally i'd like them straight into the ctalogue but i thought i had to go via the reservoir 00:15 [K] <rangi@FreeNode> nope bulkmarcimport -> straight in 00:16 martinmorris well a lot of them are working but i'm getting some errors too 00:16 jaron what are the errors? 00:16 dewey the errors are different. It says up-to-date check failed and terminates 00:16 martinmorris here's an example 00:16 jaron ok 00:16 martinmorris looks like it's for certain " style characters that have crept in 00:16 martinmorris Converting record 103 encoding from MARC8 to UTF-8 00:16 martinmorris no mapping found for [0x80] at position 3 in AC‟197/198â€? *71 #l -e1b g0=ASCII_DEFAULT g1=EXTENDED_LATIN at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/Charset.pm line 210. 00:17 martinmorris yeah, and other unicode characters 00:17 martinmorris here's another 00:17 martinmorris Converting record 160 encoding from MARC8 to UTF-8 00:17 martinmorris no mapping found for [0x9D] at position 25 in Internacia Katolika UnuiÄ?o Esperantista g0=ASCII_DEFAULT g1=EXTENDED_LATIN at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/Charset.pm line 210. 00:18 martinmorris so falling over on the Ä? character 00:18 jaron those are both control characters 00:18 martinmorris you're seeing them as control characters? 00:18 jaron that's what the hex code maps to 00:18 jaron http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=9d&preview=entity 00:19 martinmorris weird 00:19 martinmorris it's seeing the characters wrongly then 00:20 martinmorris i'm far from expert on that kind of thing 00:20 martinmorris that should be g with a circumflex on it 00:20 jaron that's what I'm seeing 00:20 martinmorris good 00:20 jaron could you send me one of those records? 00:21 jaron it's hard to tell without seeing a record 00:21 jaron at least for me :) 00:21 martinmorris they're all in one file (1.5Mb) 00:21 martinmorris want the lot? 00:21 martinmorris or shall i recreate one of them for you? 01:18 CGI766 test 07:23 toins hi #koha 09:44 martinmorris hello got another probably basic question 09:48 martinmorris in the catalogue I've got, i want people who search for one name to be directed to another one 09:48 martinmorris and i'm not sure how to set that up 11:26 kados g'morning #koha 11:41 paul hello kados 11:42 paul i just see : http://liblime.com/products/masterkey 11:42 paul what's masterkey ? 11:43 paul (technically) 11:43 paul because i've got questions about OAI support in Koha, merged /multiple sources searches ... 11:43 paul things that "masterkey" seems to be able to do ! 11:44 paul (+ i've seen yakpac as well : very nice) 11:44 paul (except flash technology, of course) 11:44 kados masterkey.indexdata.com 11:44 kados hi paul 11:44 kados masterkey doesn't have OAI support, in fact, it doesn't store any data itself 11:44 kados it's a metasearch engine 11:45 kados it just queries other searches and merges the results 11:45 kados we have a customer who will go live with it in about 3 months 11:47 paul wow, very impressive demo. 11:48 kados This is the customer: http://www.schlowlibrary.org/ 11:48 kados they have 4 libraries that will use it to search each other's collections 11:49 kados yesterday was the last day of the largest library con in the US, ALA 11:49 kados many many people were interested in open source ILS :-) 11:49 paul some good business contacts here ? 11:50 kados yes, met with some good people 11:50 kados so today I have a holiday :-) 11:50 paul so what are u doing here ? 11:50 kados I'm going to see the capitol and smithsonian, etc :-) 11:50 kados ahh, it's still early, so I'm just catching up on email, etc. and saying hi to Paul Poulain of course :-) 11:51 kados http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.edu%2F&ei=Nk-CRp2HGYygedXbibYK&usg=AFQjCNG5IDyN385B8_qyyqx8JrEvhKnEjg&sig2=Q9Gqvvvi-0t_TD_l37Bv_g 11:51 kados oops 11:51 kados www.si.edu/ 11:51 kados since they have a two letter URL you know they are rich :-) 11:51 paul lol 11:51 kados it's the most prominent museum in the US I think 11:52 paul like the louvre in Paris ? 11:52 kados similar, yes 11:52 kados it was founded by a famous person, James Smithson 11:53 kados he donated his wealth to the US to found the Smithsonian Institute 11:53 kados (side note: they contacted me recently about Koha, but this visit is unrelated :-)) 11:55 kados paul: quick question 11:55 kados someone asked me yesterday about serials 11:56 kados paul: do any libraries manage more than one subscription for a biblio? 11:56 paul yep 11:56 kados (what if a library has 4 branches, and they order 4 issues of each serial) 11:56 paul they create 1 subscription for each they have 11:56 kados ok, i thought so 11:57 paul in head, there is a "branch" filter available, to specify that this subscription is attached to branch X 11:57 kados cool 11:57 paul (and if IndependantBranches is ON, then the librarians will see only it's subscriptions) 11:57 paul on the other side, the "note" field appears everywhere 11:58 paul so, you can have 2 subscriptins for the same branch, one with "public access" and one with "for reserve" (example) 11:58 kados ahh, cool 11:59 kados I think his wife just had a baby 11:59 kados so he takes a couple days off :-)