Re: [Koha] Big Koha Migration of Turkey

[Marshall Breeding]

Thanks to data provided by Mengü, these libraries are now represented in 
libraries.org:

http://librarytechnology.org/libraries/search.pl?ILS=Koha%20--%20Devinim

http://librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Koha%20--%20Devinim

and the global map:
 http://librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Koha

Any additional help in making this resource more comprehensive for libraries 
using Koha is much appreciated.

-marshall


Marshall Breeding
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 On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Mengu Yazicioglu 
 
 wrote:

 > Hi all,
 >
 > I'm glad to share that we successfully migrated old 2.x Koha to new  one, 
 > 3.20.
 > I should also say that this a quite derived version of 3.20, we have added
 > many new features,
 > new modules and changed a lot of codes for the use of public 
 > libraries so we may call this Koha version as Koha -- Devinim.
 >
 > We've migrated 1.220.000 active users, 13.700.000 items with active 
 > 900 libraries of 1126 public libraries all cities of Turkey.
 > We use 14 servers for all production and 4 servers for test environment.
 > We use MariaDB and Galera Cluster with 4 nodes, 8 apache servers and 
 > 1 zebra server.
 > We plan to cluster zebra server in the future, it cannot perform 
 > very
 well
 > for this kind of huge installation.
 >
 > During migration, we also cleaned some dirty data, this was also a 
 > big issue for 13m items.
 > We've done many tests before going live.
 >
 > OPAC page is http://koha.ekutuphane.gov.tr
 >
> Thanks
 >
 > //
 > /Mengü YAZICIOĞLU
 > DEVİNİM Software Consultancy
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Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

There are (at least) two options:

- Make Koha handle more metadata formats (for authority records /
thesaurus) and have the tools extract the needed heading for the
bibliographic records
- Make Koha handle importing SKOS-core packages into its authority database.

Those could work IMO.

2016-01-29 12:11 GMT-03:00 James Weinheimer :

> On 1/27/2016 11:19 PM, Craig Butosi wrote:
>
>> I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully
>> bulk-uploaded into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name authority
>> database files available through the Library of Congress:
>> http://id.loc.gov/download/
>>
>> I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which these
>> files are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks like some
>> sort of conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha
>> authorities module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name authority file
>> direct from LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities.
>>
>
> This would be very positive. One of the problems is that the downloads
> available are not MARC, but are either MADS or SKOS. It seems as if
> converting these records to MARC would lose information, but I am not sure.
>
> To see what this means, look at the record "United States--History--Civil
> War, 1861-1865--Bibliography"
> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.html. If you select
> RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS) (
> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.rdf) this is what
> would need to be translated into MARC.
>
> The guidelines for mapping MARC to MADS are at
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-mapping.html, and it says "This
> mapping gives equivalencies between the MARC 21 Authority Format and MADS,
> but is not intended to be a crosswalk that allows for bi-directional
> conversions without some loss of data. Where there is no equivalent MARC 21
> element, this mapping says "no MARC 21 equivalent". Therefore, I assume
> there are some problems.
>
> I don't know if anybody has experience with this, but I don't think the
> problems would be trivial.
>
> James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com
> First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net
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Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[Joy Nelson]

Craig, Cecil, Sebastian,
At this time, Koha's authority model relies on MARC data.  If you have a
file of Authority MARC records, those can be easily imported into Koha
using the Tools-Stage MARC records area.  However, if the file contains
RDF/XML or triples of some sort, then that file would need to be converted
into MARC before it could be imported.

-Joy

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:43 AM, Sebastian Hierl  wrote:

> Same here, it would be a boon for any Koha library!
>
> Regards from Rome,
>
> Sebastian
>
> --
> Sebastian Hierl, Ph.D.
> Drue Heinz Librarian, Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library
> American Academy in Rome
> Via Angelo Masina 5
> 00153 Rome
> Italy
>
> T: +39 06 5846 417
> F: +39 06 5810 788
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Hillyard, Cecil <
> chilly...@washoecounty.us>
> wrote:
>
> > I also would be interested in the information.
> >
> > __
> > Cecil Hillyard
> > Washoe County Library
> > Technical Services
> > 775-327-8338
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Koha [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Craig
> > Butosi
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 2:19 PM
> > To: koha
> > Subject: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into
> > Koha Authorities module?
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully
> bulk-uploaded
> > into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name authority database
> files
> > available through the Library of Congress: http://id.loc.gov/download/
> >
> > I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which these
> files
> > are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks like some sort
> of
> > conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha authorities
> > module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name authority file direct
> from
> > LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities.
> >
> > Can anyone share how they may (or may not) have accomplished this?
> >
> > Thanks everyone,
> >
> > Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
> > LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER
> > the royal conservatory
> > TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
> > 273 Bloor Street West
> > Toronto, ON M5S 1W2
> > 416.408.2824 x338
> > www.rcmusic.ca
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[James Weinheimer]

On 1/27/2016 11:19 PM, Craig Butosi wrote:

I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully bulk-uploaded into 
Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name authority database files available 
through the Library of Congress:http://id.loc.gov/download/

I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which these files are 
available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks like some sort of 
conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha authorities module. 
It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name authority file direct from LC rather 
than Z39.50'ing individual authorities.


This would be very positive. One of the problems is that the downloads 
available are not MARC, but are either MADS or SKOS. It seems as if 
converting these records to MARC would lose information, but I am not sure.


To see what this means, look at the record "United 
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Bibliography" 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.html. If you select 
RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS) 
(http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.rdf) this is what 
would need to be translated into MARC.


The guidelines for mapping MARC to MADS are at 
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-mapping.html, and it says "This 
mapping gives equivalencies between the MARC 21 Authority Format and 
MADS, but is not intended to be a crosswalk that allows for 
bi-directional conversions without some loss of data. Where there is no 
equivalent MARC 21 element, this mapping says "no MARC 21 equivalent". 
Therefore, I assume there are some problems.


I don't know if anybody has experience with this, but I don't think the 
problems would be trivial.


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Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[Joy Nelson]

Agreed Tomas.  I would love to see Koha have the ability to be 'format'
agnostic when it comes to the data.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi 
wrote:

> There are (at least) two options:
>
> - Make Koha handle more metadata formats (for authority records /
> thesaurus) and have the tools extract the needed heading for the
> bibliographic records
> - Make Koha handle importing SKOS-core packages into its authority
> database.
>
> Those could work IMO.
>
> 2016-01-29 12:11 GMT-03:00 James Weinheimer :
>
> > On 1/27/2016 11:19 PM, Craig Butosi wrote:
> >
> >> I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully
> >> bulk-uploaded into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name
> authority
> >> database files available through the Library of Congress:
> >> http://id.loc.gov/download/
> >>
> >> I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which these
> >> files are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks like
> some
> >> sort of conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha
> >> authorities module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name authority
> file
> >> direct from LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities.
> >>
> >
> > This would be very positive. One of the problems is that the downloads
> > available are not MARC, but are either MADS or SKOS. It seems as if
> > converting these records to MARC would lose information, but I am not
> sure.
> >
> > To see what this means, look at the record "United States--History--Civil
> > War, 1861-1865--Bibliography"
> > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.html. If you select
> > RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS) (
> > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.rdf) this is what
> > would need to be translated into MARC.
> >
> > The guidelines for mapping MARC to MADS are at
> > http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-mapping.html, and it says "This
> > mapping gives equivalencies between the MARC 21 Authority Format and
> MADS,
> > but is not intended to be a crosswalk that allows for bi-directional
> > conversions without some loss of data. Where there is no equivalent MARC
> 21
> > element, this mapping says "no MARC 21 equivalent". Therefore, I assume
> > there are some problems.
> >
> > I don't know if anybody has experience with this, but I don't think the
> > problems would be trivial.
> >
> > James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com
> > First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net
> > First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus
> > Personal Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/james.weinheimer.35
> > Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JamesWeinheimer
> > Cooperative Cataloging Rules
> > http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/
> > Cataloging Matters Podcasts
> > http://blog.jweinheimer.net/cataloging-matters-podcasts
> > The Library Herald http://libnews.jweinheimer.net/
> >
> > [delay +30 days]
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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Re: [Koha] Big Koha Migration of Turkey

[Barton Chittenden]

I think this is a notable event, and should be added to the Wikipedia
article on Koha.
On Jan 29, 2016 8:17 AM, "Jesse Lambertson"  wrote:

> What a great project.
>
> Thank you for sharing.
>
> Jesse
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Mengu Yazicioglu 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm glad to share that we successfully migrated old 2.x Koha to new one,
> > 3.20.
> > I should also say that this a quite derived version of 3.20, we have
> added
> > many new features,
> > new modules and changed a lot of codes for the use of public libraries so
> > we may call this Koha
> > version as Koha -- Devinim.
> >
> > We've migrated 1.220.000 active users, 13.700.000 items with active 900
> > libraries of 1126 public libraries all cities of
> > Turkey.
> > We use 14 servers for all production and 4 servers for test environment.
> > We use MariaDB and Galera Cluster with 4 nodes, 8 apache servers and 1
> > zebra server.
> > We plan to cluster zebra server in the future, it cannot perform very
> well
> > for this kind of huge installation.
> >
> > During migration, we also cleaned some dirty data, this was also a big
> > issue for 13m items.
> > We've done many tests before going live.
> >
> > OPAC page is http://koha.ekutuphane.gov.tr
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > //
> > /Mengü YAZICIOĞLU
> > DEVİNİM Software Consultancy
> > /
> > ___
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> > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
> > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
> >
>
>
>
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> Librarian
> Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 
> Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104
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Re: [Koha] Koha Plugin System

[Kyle Hall]

Add this as well:


  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  Require all granted


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Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Bortel, Gary 
wrote:

> Added. Now I’m getting a 403 error…
>
> … "GET
> /plugin/Koha/Plugin/Com/ByWaterSolutions/CoverFlow/jquery-flipster/src/js/jquery.flipster.min.js?_=1454009931757
> HTTP/1.1" 403 …
>
>
> gcb
> __
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> 360.570.5588
>
> Washington State Library: Empowering 21st Century Washington
>
> From: Kyle Hall [mailto:kyle.m.h...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 11:17 AM
> To: Bortel, Gary 
> Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Plugin System
>
> Those directions appear to be incomplete. You also need to add this alias
> to the opac section of the apache conf:
>
> Alias /plugin "/var/lib/koha/library1/plugins"
>
> Kyle
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Bortel, Gary  > wrote:
> https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-plugin-coverflow
>
>
>
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Re: [Koha] Big Koha Migration of Turkey

[Jesse Lambertson]

What a great project.

Thank you for sharing.

Jesse

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Mengu Yazicioglu 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm glad to share that we successfully migrated old 2.x Koha to new one,
> 3.20.
> I should also say that this a quite derived version of 3.20, we have added
> many new features,
> new modules and changed a lot of codes for the use of public libraries so
> we may call this Koha
> version as Koha -- Devinim.
>
> We've migrated 1.220.000 active users, 13.700.000 items with active 900
> libraries of 1126 public libraries all cities of
> Turkey.
> We use 14 servers for all production and 4 servers for test environment.
> We use MariaDB and Galera Cluster with 4 nodes, 8 apache servers and 1
> zebra server.
> We plan to cluster zebra server in the future, it cannot perform very well
> for this kind of huge installation.
>
> During migration, we also cleaned some dirty data, this was also a big
> issue for 13m items.
> We've done many tests before going live.
>
> OPAC page is http://koha.ekutuphane.gov.tr
>
> Thanks
>
> //
> /Mengü YAZICIOĞLU
> DEVİNİM Software Consultancy
> /
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Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[Sebastian Hierl]

Same here, it would be a boon for any Koha library!

Regards from Rome,

Sebastian

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American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5
00153 Rome
Italy

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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Hillyard, Cecil 
wrote:

> I also would be interested in the information.
>
> __
> Cecil Hillyard
> Washoe County Library
> Technical Services
> 775-327-8338
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Koha [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Craig
> Butosi
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 2:19 PM
> To: koha
> Subject: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into
> Koha Authorities module?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully bulk-uploaded
> into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name authority database files
> available through the Library of Congress: http://id.loc.gov/download/
>
> I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which these files
> are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks like some sort of
> conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha authorities
> module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name authority file direct from
> LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities.
>
> Can anyone share how they may (or may not) have accomplished this?
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
> LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER
> the royal conservatory
> TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
> 273 Bloor Street West
> Toronto, ON M5S 1W2
> 416.408.2824 x338
> www.rcmusic.ca
>
>
>
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Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[James Weinheimer]

Yes. It seems as if this would be a tremendous step toward the future 
and would help everybody.


Jim

On 1/29/2016 4:21 PM, Joy Nelson wrote:
Agreed Tomas.  I would love to see Koha have the ability to be 
'format' agnostic when it comes to the data.


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi 
> wrote:


There are (at least) two options:

- Make Koha handle more metadata formats (for authority records /
thesaurus) and have the tools extract the needed heading for the
bibliographic records
- Make Koha handle importing SKOS-core packages into its authority
database.

Those could work IMO.

2016-01-29 12:11 GMT-03:00 James Weinheimer
>:

> On 1/27/2016 11:19 PM, Craig Butosi wrote:
>
>> I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully
>> bulk-uploaded into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name
authority
>> database files available through the Library of Congress:
>> http://id.loc.gov/download/
>>
>> I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which
these
>> files are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It looks
like some
>> sort of conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha
>> authorities module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name
authority file
>> direct from LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities.
>>
>
> This would be very positive. One of the problems is that the
downloads
> available are not MARC, but are either MADS or SKOS. It seems as if
> converting these records to MARC would lose information, but I
am not sure.
>
> To see what this means, look at the record "United
States--History--Civil
> War, 1861-1865--Bibliography"
> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.html. If you
select
> RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS) (
> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.rdf) this is
what
> would need to be translated into MARC.
>
> The guidelines for mapping MARC to MADS are at
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-mapping.html, and it says
"This
> mapping gives equivalencies between the MARC 21 Authority Format
and MADS,
> but is not intended to be a crosswalk that allows for bi-directional
> conversions without some loss of data. Where there is no
equivalent MARC 21
> element, this mapping says "no MARC 21 equivalent". Therefore, I
assume
> there are some problems.
>
> I don't know if anybody has experience with this, but I don't
think the
> problems would be trivial.
>
> James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com

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[Koha] New Manual Branch

[Nicole Engard]

I have branched the manual for 3.24.  There is now a 3.22 branch and master
should match master of Koha.

http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary

Thanks
Nicole

PS. I think some work needs to be done on translate.kc to point to the
right places and generate the right PDFs.
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Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into Koha Authorities module?

[Craig Butosi]

Most definitely a great idea, avoiding having to convert data prior to upload. 
If I had the experience, I'd most certainly help with implementing this in 
Koha. I'm not even sure MARCEdit can handle, say, MADS => MARC21 at present, 
can it? I'll play around.

Thanks all for the input!

C


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-Original Message-
From: Koha [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Joy Nelson
Sent: January-29-16 10:21 AM
To: Tomas Cohen Arazi
Cc: koha
Subject: Re: [Koha] LC Name Authorities - Bulk upload LC database file into 
Koha Authorities module?

Agreed Tomas.  I would love to see Koha have the ability to be 'format'
agnostic when it comes to the data.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi 
wrote:

> There are (at least) two options:
>
> - Make Koha handle more metadata formats (for authority records /
> thesaurus) and have the tools extract the needed heading for the
> bibliographic records
> - Make Koha handle importing SKOS-core packages into its authority
> database.
>
> Those could work IMO.
>
> 2016-01-29 12:11 GMT-03:00 James Weinheimer :
>
> > On 1/27/2016 11:19 PM, Craig Butosi wrote:
> >
> >> I've been curious for a while now if anyone has successfully
> >> bulk-uploaded into Koha (3.20 or newer) one of the free LC Name
> authority
> >> database files available through the Library of Congress:
> >> http://id.loc.gov/download/
> >>
> >> I wonder if it's even possible given the file formats in which
> >> these files are available (n-triples, rdf/xml, Turtle, etc). It
> >> looks like
> some
> >> sort of conversion would be required before uploading into the Koha
> >> authorities module. It would be lovely to bulk upload a Name
> >> authority
> file
> >> direct from LC rather than Z39.50'ing individual authorities.
> >>
> >
> > This would be very positive. One of the problems is that the
> > downloads available are not MARC, but are either MADS or SKOS. It
> > seems as if converting these records to MARC would lose information,
> > but I am not
> sure.
> >
> > To see what this means, look at the record "United
> > States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Bibliography"
> > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.html. If you
> > select RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS) (
> > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100437.rdf) this is
> > what would need to be translated into MARC.
> >
> > The guidelines for mapping MARC to MADS are at
> > http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-mapping.html, and it says
> > "This mapping gives equivalencies between the MARC 21 Authority
> > Format and
> MADS,
> > but is not intended to be a crosswalk that allows for bi-directional
> > conversions without some loss of data. Where there is no equivalent
> > MARC
> 21
> > element, this mapping says "no MARC 21 equivalent". Therefore, I
> > assume there are some problems.
> >
> > I don't know if anybody has experience with this, but I don't think
> > the problems would be trivial.
> >
> > James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com First Thus
> > http://blog.jweinheimer.net First Thus Facebook Page
> > https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus
> > Personal Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/james.weinheimer.35
> > Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JamesWeinheimer
> > Cooperative Cataloging Rules
> > http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/
> > Cataloging Matters Podcasts
> > http://blog.jweinheimer.net/cataloging-matters-podcasts
> > The Library Herald http://libnews.jweinheimer.net/
> >
> > [delay +30 days]
> >
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Re: [Koha] Wiki certificate

[Paul A]

At 01:52 PM 1/29/2016 +1300, Chris Cormack wrote:

* Paul A (pau...@navalmarinearchive.com) wrote:
> For wiki.koha-community.org, Opera has started giving a SSL Error:
>
> Your connection is not private
> You attempted to reach wiki.koha-community.org, but the server presented an
> invalid certificate.
> You cannot proceed because the website operator has requested heightened
> security for this domain.
>
> Firefox (verified by "Let's encrypt") does not stumble. Is this purely an
> Opera foible? There seems to be a fair amount of "web chatter" about "Let's
> encrypt" being temperamental on Ubuntu.
>
It's Opera, it probably is either an old version, or Opera hasn't updated 
its list

of CAs yet


Thanks Chris, but... it is the latest version of Opera (34, both .deb and 
win), and I have installed all four certs suggested by 
 without luck. I have posted a query 
to the "Let's encrypt" community board.


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Re: [Koha] Koha Plugin System

[Bortel, Gary]

Perfect, Kyle!

Thanks for adding the updates to the instructions at 
https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-plugin-coverflow


gcb
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To: Bortel, Gary 
Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Plugin System

Add this as well:


  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  Require all granted


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Re: [Koha] Wiki certificate

[Owen Leonard]

> Thanks Chris, but... it is the latest version of Opera (34, both .deb and win)

When I check Opera 34 on Windows I see no SSL error.

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[Koha] Inactive patrons and fine forgiveness

[Chad Roseburg]

We are planning an amnesty program later this year ...early 2017 and would
like to know what other libraries are doing. First we'd like to purge our
inactive patrons.

I had a few questions for libraries that are doing this.

1. What are your policies for deleting patrons? Inactive ...expired ..etc?
1.2 What reports do you use to capture them?
1.3 What if they have fines?

2. What are (were) your policies for forgiving fines or fees?
2.2 How do you capture this info? [ what reports used? ]
2.3 What process do you use for clearing these?

Any advice or information you might have would be much appreciated!

Thank you!

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[Koha] Koha Community Newsletter: January 2016

[kohanews]

Fellow Koha users:

The Koha Community Newsletter for January 2016 is here:
https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-january-2016/

Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's 
newsletter.


Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions.

Thanks!

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Re: [Koha] Big Koha Migration of Turkey

[Joann Ransom]

HI Mengu

This is a wonderful Koha story!

May I just check that you have made the code of all the enhancements you made 
to the Koha source code available to the Koha community under the terms of the 
licence?

Kind regards

Jo.









Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.


 Original message 
From: Barton Chittenden 
Date: 30/01/2016 2:24 am (GMT+12:00)
To: Jesse Lambertson 
Cc: koha 
Subject: Re: [Koha] Big Koha Migration of Turkey

I think this is a notable event, and should be added to the Wikipedia
article on Koha.
On Jan 29, 2016 8:17 AM, "Jesse Lambertson"  wrote:

> What a great project.
>
> Thank you for sharing.
>
> Jesse
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Mengu Yazicioglu 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm glad to share that we successfully migrated old 2.x Koha to new one,
> > 3.20.
> > I should also say that this a quite derived version of 3.20, we have
> added
> > many new features,
> > new modules and changed a lot of codes for the use of public libraries so
> > we may call this Koha
> > version as Koha -- Devinim.
> >
> > We've migrated 1.220.000 active users, 13.700.000 items with active 900
> > libraries of 1126 public libraries all cities of
> > Turkey.
> > We use 14 servers for all production and 4 servers for test environment.
> > We use MariaDB and Galera Cluster with 4 nodes, 8 apache servers and 1
> > zebra server.
> > We plan to cluster zebra server in the future, it cannot perform very
> well
> > for this kind of huge installation.
> >
> > During migration, we also cleaned some dirty data, this was also a big
> > issue for 13m items.
> > We've done many tests before going live.
> >
> > OPAC page is http://koha.ekutuphane.gov.tr
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > //
> > /Mengü YAZICIOĞLU
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