Re: [Koha] Koha hardware interface
This is something I was thinking about too! Because I manage equipment through Koha (not just books) it would be amazing to place a camera kit on top of an RFID reader and let Koha scan all the contents in the kit making sure everything was there: camera, charger, USB cord, etc. If it comes up empty on an item, we look inside and double check if its actually there or missing. I noticed a few youtube videos of RFID and a Koha terminal interface a while back . . . But I feel it would be as simple as expanding the checkin/checkout field to bulk update. ex input all at once: barcode1 barcode1 barcode1 Walker On Friday, May 13, 2011 at 9:17 AM, aj...@maxenna.com wrote: Hi, I have recently installed Koha3.4 on Ubuntu. I would like to interface an RFID reader with Koha. More specifically when the user goes to Circulation - check out - and enter the patron details, there will be a place to Enter item barcode. The usual procedure is that the barcode scanner will fill in this value. But what we want to implement is an RFID reader instead of the barcode scanner. Each book will have a RFID tag. The patron will pick the books from the shelf and bring it and place some books on top of RFID reader which will read all the books at once, say for example 4-5 books at once. My doubt is how can I read this information into koha. Any suggestion please. On further thought, I was thinking on developing an application which would read the data from the RFID reader and update the MySQL database in the same way/format Koha would do. Would someone recommend doing it this way. If so how do I develop this application. Because I know C#.net and VB.net. But these can be used only for developing application on windows. How do I develop an application that will run on Ubuntu and suffice as an interface for Koha. Regards Ajesh ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Sirsi in NZ!
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcn28md_167f6j82cw8 Here's an interesting discussion/document showing Sirsi's perspective on the value of OSS vs proprietary. I think their take was pretty much totally wrong except for maybe UI. While Koha has impressive features and has already been proven in the real world, I think it could come a long way in terms of back-end UI, information architecture, and general website loading speed. When Wordpress upgraded their UI they jumped to 20,000,000 unique bloggers and 260,000,000 unique viewers a month. If we streamlined the back-end (I'm thinking about Drupal's dropdown menu for example, or wordpress's use of ajax) and came out with 3 different really nice OPAC themes (2 for web and 1 for mobile) I think people would start to not only see but know how customizable and forward thinking Koha really is. It's good to see memcached in 3.4 and the upgraded template system. This will probably help. As a web designer, this would be something I could contribute to I guess. I'm not good with perl. And here I am spouting without even contributing a cent of code. Sorry, I love Koha though. It's really good. Walker Blackwell University of Vermont ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Hello to all!
Hey everyone. I'd just like to introduce myself. I'm a lab tech at University of Vermont and started getting interested in Koha as an equipment cage management solution around v2. It just works way better than anything else I've tried! Anyway, congrats to all those hard workers who got 3.4 out! I installed it last night on Ubuntu 10.04 with zero problems. One question, has anyone got Koha to work with Shibboleth? Many institutions (like mine) are sheathing their LDAP authentication behind a Shibboleth layer. I found a few notes about it on a Koha 4 ideas page on the internet but nothing else so far. All the best! Walker Blackwell ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] 3.4 install prev: Re: Hello to all!
Related to questions about installing 3.4. I installed mine on a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 64bit server. 1. Started with a new VMware image of Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64bit with all security and other packages updated. 2. Installed Apache2, MYSQL5 and set up the mysql DBs. 3. Downloaded using Git and followed the instructions for a Ubuntu install. (including test DB, etc.) 4. Ran the install procedure and then used CPAN for all remaining uninstalled perl modules. No problems with the CPAN. Amazing! 5. Finished setting up the virtual domains in for apache/koha. 6. Rebooted, logged into the server from another computer (theipaddress:8080) and finished the setup. 7. Imported some marc records from my 3.2 export. (I might just dump mysql from my 3.2 db to my 3.4 db so I can retain item types. I don't know if this is possible.) (If I dump all my mysql tables from my old db and import into the new one, will 3.4 recognize that it is an old db and update it? I wish their was an export database button in the staff client.) Today I'm getting koha to give staff access at https: and opac access at http: All the best, Walker ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
