Re: [Koha] indexing and cronjobs
Hi, I am new to Koha and need some help. have installed koha 3.10 on ubuntu server 12. 04 using packages. Indexing is now working. Kindly advice me on how i should set cronjobs. should i set it under crontab -e or /etc/cront.d/koha-common? Secondly can somebody help with tested cronjobs which i can use. Thanks in advance. Tom ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Apache bad username
Thanks, that seemed the thing to do, just start over again. From: Nguyen Quoc Uy nguyenquocuy_1...@yahoo.com To: ontariowol...@yahoo.com ontariowol...@yahoo.com Cc: Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 6:25:17 PM Subject: Re:Apache bad username What OS are you using? Debian or centos...? I think your problem is because of wrong configuration apache before. You should remove apache and all its configurations then install a fresh apache2. If u are using debian, ubuntu, you can check for koha packages install on ubuntu, it's an easies way, i think. Here is some command if u can't reinstall your Os. $ Sudo apt-get remove - -purge apache2 apache2.2-common This will remove all configurations file, maybe remove koha , and mail server. Be warning about this. Next $ sudo apt-get autoremove This clear all another dependence program and their config files. Next try reinstall apache again. Hope this help! And should not install as root, just add user and give him full admin privileges. But even with root, it should work! Best regards! Nguyen Quoc Uy ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] indexing and cronjobs
Hi Tom, I recently did an install from the packages and I find the cronjobs in three places: /etc/cron.d/koha-common , /etc/cron.hourly/koha-common , and /etc/cron.daily/koha-common . I think you will find what you are looking for in those three files. Best, Doug -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Tom Obrien Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:42 AM To: koha Subject: Re: [Koha] indexing and cronjobs Hi, I am new to Koha and need some help. have installed koha 3.10 on ubuntu server 12. 04 using packages. Indexing is now working. Kindly advice me on how i should set cronjobs. should i set it under crontab -e or /etc/cront.d/koha-common? Secondly can somebody help with tested cronjobs which i can use. Thanks in advance. Tom ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] how to use marc records displayed on library web pages?
I do a fair bit of cataloging for a small library that has a lot of old/rare books, though I am an amateur librarian. I often use worldcat to find a library that has a copy of our uncatalogued book (when I can't find any z39.50 accessible sources). These libraries often have an option to display a MARC record. Is there some way to get such a display into Koha besides manually copy/pasting bits and pieces into a new MARC record? For example: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3780640/Details#tabnav Copying and pasting the displayed record into a text file and trying to import it via stage for import does not work. I notice that Library of Congress has an option to download MARC records for its items, which can be 'staged for import without a problem. Looking a the contents of the LoC downloaded MARC file, it looks almost nothing like the ones displayed by libraries which don't have a download option. I've searched the web (i think) exhaustively for clues as to how to actually handle or convert these display marc records into something usable (something that looks like the LoC downloaded MARC records), but with not success. I've installed and attempted to use MarcEdit and IsisMarc hoping they might have some functionality to convert/transform this data... but no luck. It just seems crazy that there's all this info out there, and I can't find any way to use it beyond the crudest (but better than nothing!) methods of cherry picking. What am I missing? ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] how to use marc records displayed on library web pages?
X, I do a fair bit of cataloging for a small library that has a lot of old/rare books, though I am an amateur librarian. I often use worldcat to find a library that has a copy of our uncatalogued book (when I can't find any z39.50 accessible sources). These libraries often have an option to display a MARC record. Is there some way to get such a display into Koha besides manually copy/pasting bits and pieces into a new MARC record? Not easily if they do not provide a Z39.50 server or raw MARC record download. What you are seeing when looking at the MARC view is a representation of the MARC format that has been designed to be easily readable for humans. MARC records are actually (usually, anyway) stored in the binary format that LC provides their records in. For example: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3780640/Details#tabnav Copying and pasting the displayed record into a text file and trying to import it via stage for import does not work. I notice that Library of Congress has an option to download MARC records for its items, which can be 'staged for import without a problem. Looking a the contents of the LoC downloaded MARC file, it looks almost nothing like the ones displayed by libraries which don't have a download option. I've searched the web (i think) exhaustively for clues as to how to actually handle or convert these display marc records into something usable (something that looks like the LoC downloaded MARC records), but with not success. I've installed and attempted to use MarcEdit and IsisMarc hoping they might have some functionality to convert/transform this data... but no luck. It just seems crazy that there's all this info out there, and I can't find any way to use it beyond the crudest (but better than nothing!) methods of cherry picking. What am I missing? Most libraries that use copy from libraries other than their national library use OCLC or Skyriver (or a similar union database) for obtaining records. It would be possible to write screen scrapers to harvest MARC data from OPACs, but since there is no standard formatting, you would need at the very least a screen scraper per ILS, if not a screen scraper per catalog to cope with minor customizations made by various libraries. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcam...@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Importing records from Koha 3.01 into 4.02
Dear Koha Friends, We have tried to bring the records in by two methods, first to point at the old database when installing 4.02; secondly, to do a fresh installation and then using tools marc staging to import the files already exported from the old system. The first installation seems to work, but searching finds no records. Using the second method, we can see a list of records, but only one of them (the first one) has a Bib number and after clicking on Import the progress bar never advances. Sorry for such a clueless question. Does anyone have some clues for us? We are using Marc 21, by the way. Thank you, David -- http://intknowledge.com 91 Suthisan, Dindaeng, Bangkok 10400 Thailand: 084 329 1183; 02 693 8144 Outside Thailand: +66 84 329 1183 (cell); +66 2 693 8144 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Importing records from Koha 3.01 into 4.02
David, On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:15 PM, David M. Bucknell da...@intknowledge.comwrote: Dear Koha Friends, We have tried to bring the records in by two methods, first to point at the old database when installing 4.02; secondly, to do a fresh installation and then using tools marc staging to import the files already exported from the old system. 4.02? There isn't a of Koha out with that number yet. The latest stable is 3.10.x and work is getting underway for 3.12.x hope that helps -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog: http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Importing records from Koha 3.01 into 4.02
David, Judging by the version number I think you got the proprietary fork from Liblime. I would suggest you install the oldstable release from koha-community.org. Instructions can be found here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.8_on_Debian_Squeeze If you are not installing on Debian or one of its variants (like Ubuntu), there are installation instructions for other linux distros on the wiki here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:Installation Hope that helps, Doug -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of David M. Bucknell Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:45 AM To: Koha Subject: [Koha] Importing records from Koha 3.01 into 4.02 Dear Koha Friends, We have tried to bring the records in by two methods, first to point at the old database when installing 4.02; secondly, to do a fresh installation and then using tools marc staging to import the files already exported from the old system. The first installation seems to work, but searching finds no records. Using the second method, we can see a list of records, but only one of them (the first one) has a Bib number and after clicking on Import the progress bar never advances. Sorry for such a clueless question. Does anyone have some clues for us? We are using Marc 21, by the way. Thank you, David -- http://intknowledge.com 91 Suthisan, Dindaeng, Bangkok 10400 Thailand: 084 329 1183; 02 693 8144 Outside Thailand: +66 84 329 1183 (cell); +66 2 693 8144 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] how to use marc records displayed on library web pages?
Thanks, Jared, for confirming my suspicions. It still seems weird to me how many library interfaces display MARC and don't provide a machine-usable format. It's better than nothing though, I suppose. At least Koha isn't one of these systems -- Koha provides so many options for downloading records it's an embarrassment of riches! I also received a reply from someone (who doesn't seem to have CC'd the list?) who reported they copied and pasted the example link I provided into MarcEdit, and after a bit of manual re-formatting to remove subfield markers (I presume the | characters) and possibly adjust some spacing they were able compile the text to an importable MARC record. (They kindly attached the result for me.) To duplicate this prodigious feat, I guess I'd need to do some more research on the MARC format acceptable to MarcEdit... it would be handy to know how to do. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov jcam...@cpbibliography.com wrote: X, I do a fair bit of cataloging for a small library that has a lot of old/rare books, though I am an amateur librarian. I often use worldcat to find a library that has a copy of our uncatalogued book (when I can't find any z39.50 accessible sources). These libraries often have an option to display a MARC record. Is there some way to get such a display into Koha besides manually copy/pasting bits and pieces into a new MARC record? Not easily if they do not provide a Z39.50 server or raw MARC record download. What you are seeing when looking at the MARC view is a representation of the MARC format that has been designed to be easily readable for humans. MARC records are actually (usually, anyway) stored in the binary format that LC provides their records in. For example: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3780640/Details#tabnav Copying and pasting the displayed record into a text file and trying to import it via stage for import does not work. I notice that Library of Congress has an option to download MARC records for its items, which can be 'staged for import without a problem. Looking a the contents of the LoC downloaded MARC file, it looks almost nothing like the ones displayed by libraries which don't have a download option. I've searched the web (i think) exhaustively for clues as to how to actually handle or convert these display marc records into something usable (something that looks like the LoC downloaded MARC records), but with not success. I've installed and attempted to use MarcEdit and IsisMarc hoping they might have some functionality to convert/transform this data... but no luck. It just seems crazy that there's all this info out there, and I can't find any way to use it beyond the crudest (but better than nothing!) methods of cherry picking. What am I missing? Most libraries that use copy from libraries other than their national library use OCLC or Skyriver (or a similar union database) for obtaining records. It would be possible to write screen scrapers to harvest MARC data from OPACs, but since there is no standard formatting, you would need at the very least a screen scraper per ILS, if not a screen scraper per catalog to cope with minor customizations made by various libraries. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcam...@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] how to use marc records displayed on library web pages?
Hi-- Apologies for not copying to the entire list. MarcEdit is a freely available text editor for MARC records which will also compile records into MARC. There are several tutorials available ( http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/tutorials.html). Best-- Jane Cothron Chinook Library Network Newport, Oregon P.S. The default marker used in MarcEdit for subfields is the $ and fields are indicated by = instead of the pipe |. This variation seems to vary by software program. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:33 PM, X Middleton x...@vaults.ca wrote: Thanks, Jared, for confirming my suspicions. It still seems weird to me how many library interfaces display MARC and don't provide a machine-usable format. It's better than nothing though, I suppose. At least Koha isn't one of these systems -- Koha provides so many options for downloading records it's an embarrassment of riches! I also received a reply from someone (who doesn't seem to have CC'd the list?) who reported they copied and pasted the example link I provided into MarcEdit, and after a bit of manual re-formatting to remove subfield markers (I presume the | characters) and possibly adjust some spacing they were able compile the text to an importable MARC record. (They kindly attached the result for me.) To duplicate this prodigious feat, I guess I'd need to do some more research on the MARC format acceptable to MarcEdit... it would be handy to know how to do. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov jcam...@cpbibliography.com wrote: X, I do a fair bit of cataloging for a small library that has a lot of old/rare books, though I am an amateur librarian. I often use worldcat to find a library that has a copy of our uncatalogued book (when I can't find any z39.50 accessible sources). These libraries often have an option to display a MARC record. Is there some way to get such a display into Koha besides manually copy/pasting bits and pieces into a new MARC record? Not easily if they do not provide a Z39.50 server or raw MARC record download. What you are seeing when looking at the MARC view is a representation of the MARC format that has been designed to be easily readable for humans. MARC records are actually (usually, anyway) stored in the binary format that LC provides their records in. For example: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3780640/Details#tabnav Copying and pasting the displayed record into a text file and trying to import it via stage for import does not work. I notice that Library of Congress has an option to download MARC records for its items, which can be 'staged for import without a problem. Looking a the contents of the LoC downloaded MARC file, it looks almost nothing like the ones displayed by libraries which don't have a download option. I've searched the web (i think) exhaustively for clues as to how to actually handle or convert these display marc records into something usable (something that looks like the LoC downloaded MARC records), but with not success. I've installed and attempted to use MarcEdit and IsisMarc hoping they might have some functionality to convert/transform this data... but no luck. It just seems crazy that there's all this info out there, and I can't find any way to use it beyond the crudest (but better than nothing!) methods of cherry picking. What am I missing? Most libraries that use copy from libraries other than their national library use OCLC or Skyriver (or a similar union database) for obtaining records. It would be possible to write screen scrapers to harvest MARC data from OPACs, but since there is no standard formatting, you would need at the very least a screen scraper per ILS, if not a screen scraper per catalog to cope with minor customizations made by various libraries. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcam...@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
