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;