Time Nick Message 15:25 brendan good morning #koha 15:48 brendan alright see you all later ! 20:50 chris morning 20:50 richard morning chris 20:56 chris http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/2364745/NZ-prepared-for-swine-flu 20:56 chris big news day today 00:03 chris hi brendan and jo 00:03 brendan heya chris -- how goes your monday 00:04 brendan I was just nodding off - to some baseball on in the background 00:04 chris heh 00:04 chris so far so good, just setting up a new koha test server 00:04 chris with qemu 00:05 brendan I haven't used qemu 00:05 brendan googling it now 00:06 chris its pretty nifty, runs totally in userspace 00:06 chris so requires no kernel mods, like vservers or xen 00:07 brendan sweet 00:09 chris and you are already in the history docs :) 00:09 chris or should be at least 00:10 chris ill fix it if not 00:11 chris you should be just before jane actually, 2 secs ill fix it up 00:12 chris you are actually the 81st 00:13 brendan heh -- no worries -- 00:14 chris patch on its way 00:20 chris Brendan A. Gallagher narrowly beats Jane to become the 81st committer :) 00:20 brendan heh -- 00:21 brendan ok I guess I'm done ha-ha ;) 00:21 chris heh 03:07 bignose-work I'm setting up a Koha server for a client, and don't know much about the library information databases it interacts with 03:07 bignose-work how do I decide between the database types; I think UniMARC and MARC21 03:13 chris is it for an australian library? if so chances are its MARC21 .. but you probably should check with the library 03:13 chris its a datastorage/cataloguing format 03:15 bignose-work thanks, that gives me a bit more to go from. 03:15 bignose-work (am I correct that the options are UniMARC or MARC21?) 03:20 chris yep 03:31 Amit hi chris, brendan, mason 03:31 Amit good morning koha 03:31 brendan evening Amit 03:32 Amit how r u brendan 03:32 brendan evening mason 03:32 brendan very tired 03:32 brendan I've been in the sun all day ! 03:33 mason heya people 03:33 Amit heya mason 03:33 mason heya amit :) 03:34 mason thanks for the pazpar2 links too 03:34 Amit mason: hw is ur weekend 03:34 Amit now pazpar2 is working 03:34 mason very good thanks 03:34 mason i made some new spanish friends 03:35 Amit k 03:38 Amit mason r u on skype 03:38 mason sometimes... 03:39 Amit please add me in skype i have already given request to u 03:50 mason hmm, i got no request amit :/ 03:50 Amit ok 03:50 Amit i will send it to again 05:33 Jo good night all 06:59 chris evening 07:02 nicomo evening chris 07:07 chris back from your conference? 07:14 nahuel hi chris ! 07:14 nahuel :) 07:15 chris hi nahuel :) 07:16 nahuel what's up ? 07:16 nahuel what about the jetlag? :) 07:17 chris all back on nz time now 07:17 chris so not waking up too early anymore 07:18 nahuel me too :) 07:45 Amit hi nahuel 07:45 nahuel hi Amit 07:45 Amit so how is your weekend 07:45 nahuel how was the koha workshop ? 07:45 nahuel fine :) 07:45 Amit workshop is fine in mumbai 07:50 hdl_laptop good 08:00 Amit hi hdl 09:45 Hui_Nan_ hello all! 09:46 Hui_Nan_ has anyone an experience of creating a bibliographic database with koha? 09:47 Hui_Nan_ bibliographic database contains biblios for articles in journals, chapters in the books etc 09:48 Hui_Nan_ the main question is about journals - one does not want to enter the description of a journal for each article 09:56 hdl_laptop Hui_Nan_: unimarc_field_4XX is used for that purpose 09:57 hdl_laptop (link bibliographic records for multiple levels.) 09:57 Hui_Nan_ ok, I'm studiyng the corresponding plugin 09:57 hdl_laptop But it relies on UNIMARC 4XX linking fields 09:57 hdl_laptop translates 200$a into 4xx$t for instance 09:58 Hui_Nan_ ok, I have an idea about unimarc 09:58 hdl_laptop hope that helps 09:59 Hui_Nan_ what I'd like to implement - is a kind of simple search, which searches for any resource be it a web page or a book 10:00 Hui_Nan_ however I need some means to slice this general searching space 10:00 Hui_Nan_ maybe an additional accesspoint will help 10:00 Hui_Nan_ well there's a lit to learn about koha, that's why I'm asking about expirience 10:01 Hui_Nan_ s/a lit/a lot/ 10:02 hdl_laptop Hui_Nan_: unimarc_field_4xx is then the perfect match for you. 10:02 hdl_laptop it implements a basic search with restrictions to itemtypes 10:02 hdl_laptop Then you can select and add to your field 10:24 Hui_Nan_ another challenge is the restriction of access 10:25 Hui_Nan_ the access level determined by IP and/or login/password must limit the items available in the search 10:25 Hui_Nan_ say, anonimous can't see some biblios which VIP can see 10:26 Hui_Nan_ may these access levels be implemented as branches? 10:26 Hui_Nan_ or there is another way? 11:23 gmcharlt good morning 11:24 Hui_Nan_ evening ;-) 11:25 gmcharlt :) 11:27 Amit hi gmcharlt 11:50 hdl_laptop Hui_Nan_: I would say branch limits seems a good solution 11:52 Hui_Nan_ well, the restrictions are very alike to circulation limitations 11:52 Hui_Nan_ so the use of branches seems to be quite logical 11:52 Hui_Nan_ good 11:57 Hui_Nan_ however there's a difference 11:58 Hui_Nan_ access level: display_item() if $access_level > $x; 11:58 Hui_Nan_ branch: display_item() if $branch = $x;