Thank you for notifying us regarding the test site. It will be good for me to try it out.
All the best, Christopher Davis, MLS Systems & E-Services Librarian Uintah County Library cgda...@uintah.utah.gov (435) 789-0091 ext.261 uintahlibrary.org basinlibraries.org facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary instagram.com/uintahcountylibrary On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:43 PM, King, Fred <fred.k...@medstar.net> wrote: > Esteemed colleagues, > > (Please excuse all the capital letters in my message--they're there to make > it ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that this is ONLY A BETA PROJECT at the moment.) > > At KohaCon 2013 in Reno, I gave a presentation on modifying Koha to serve as > a local authors catalog. My presentation was hampered by (1) the Koha server > being behind my institution's firewall so I couldn't do a live demo, and (b) > I had designed my slideshow the day before during my lunch break since I was > giving my presentation in place of someone who couldn't make it. > > Three years went by. I learned more and more about Koha. I even took a class > in Linux system administration. Then earlier this year I started working on > Version 2, and this time I've gotten it right. Well, more so than the > previous one. I added a few MARC fields and tags here and there, redesigned > some to make more sense, and redesigned the structure to make it more > accommodating to different institutions and departments within our system. > > I'm going to be giving a presentation at this year's Koha US conference in > Monterey next month, and I'd like to give conference-goers and anybody else > interested a preview of my catalog. It's still a TEST SITE, and it DOES NOT > OFFICIALLY REPRESENT MY INSTITUTION, or anybody connected with it. > > So what is it, and what did I do to Koha? > > I work in a hospital library, and the doctors, nurses, residents, and other > associates who work here write articles, give presentations, etc. Our library > has tracked publications for years, but after we migrated to Koha I decided > to try putting our HTML lists of citations into something more searchable. > Most of the works our staff produce are indexed in Medline. I took Medline > records, converted them to MARC, and uploaded them to an instance of Koha > that I had modified to account for the new or modified field tags. There's > more to it than that, but I have to save *something* for the conference, > don't I? After all, I have 45 minutes to fill. > > I am delighted to say that this UNOFFICIAL TEST SITE which is NOT OFFICIALLY > AFFILIATED WITH MY INSTITUTION OR ANYBODY ELSE ANYWHERE is available for > PREVIEW at > http://www.philobiblios.info > It's running on one of Digital Ocean's smallest configurations (one > processor, 20GB SSD, 512MB RAM), so if a lot of people are looking at it, it > may be kind of slow. If it crashes, I'll try moving it to one of their more > robust configurations. > > Comments are welcome, of course--that's why I'm telling you about this > UNOFFICIAL TEST SITE before the conference and before it's official. Send > comments to authcat (at) philobiblios (dot) us. (Yes, the web site ends in > .info, the e-mail address ends in .us.) > > Do you think I put in enough disclaimers? > > Fred King > Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center > fred.k...@medstar.net<mailto:fred.k...@medstar.net> > 202-877-6670 > ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 > > Radio is better than television because the pictures are better. > --Anon > > > > MedStar Health is a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system, > the largest in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. Nationally > recognized for clinical quality in heart, orthopaedics, cancer and GI. > IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information > that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other > privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your > system without copying it and notify sender by reply e-mail, so that our > records can be corrected. Thank you. Help conserve valuable resources - only > print this email if necessary. > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
