Re: [Koha] How to measure and improve Koha performance for our

Hi Mike, Great to see another Australian library using Koha! Regarding performance, I'd say the answer is "it depends". It looks like you're running Debian Buster (based on your Apache response), so I'm guessing you used the Debian packages to install Koha? I thought that new instances

Re: [Koha] Koha with Centos7

Hey Russel, If you have to use Centos7, you might consider using Docker to run Koha in a Debian or Ubuntu container, since Docker should be available in Centos7. While running Koha in Docker isn't officially supported by the community, it is a potential solution. You would need to be skilled

Re: [Koha] Searching databases from the Koha Library Catalogue

Hi Lizelle, Thanks for reaching out. That's a big question, and there are a lot of different answers, depending on your situation. One option is to get your database vendor to supply you with MARC records that you can import into your Koha. Depending on who provides your database content,

Re: [Koha] Koha Concurrent and Simultaneous Use of Records

Hi Charles, No worries. I wish you well with your cloud migration. David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 From: Charles Kelley Sent: Friday, 9 July 2021 11:33 AM To:

Re: [Koha] Koha Concurrent and Simultaneous Use of Records

Hi Charles, Koha uses the "The ever popular do-nothing-approach". In theory, this is problematic and certainly bothers me, but in practice I think it's fairly rare that two staff members are working on the same record at the same time. Locking and lock timeouts come with a lot of complexity,

Re: [Koha] Authority records vie OAI-PMH

Hi Michal, At the moment, Koha only provides MARC bibliographic records via OAI-PMH, but I am intrigued by the prospect of providing authority records. I think we'd probably have to provide a new endpoint for that though, as I don't think we could make the current endpoint backwards

Re: [Koha] Identifying Records with Non-Roman Characters

Hi Charles, I'm not 100% sure what you're asking here. Are you asking to find all records where there is a 245 title that isn't Romanized? You could try something like this: SELECT * FROM biblio WHERE title <> CONVERT(title USING latin1); I've tried that out on one of my multilingual

Re: [Koha] Koha API - Authentication Failure

That KohaRest driver looks interesting! I haven't dug into it too deeply, but how do you handle the user/patron authentication? Do you have the user log into VuFind and at that point you use the backend confidential client user to validate it via your plugin API endpoint? Have you thought

Re: [Koha] Status of ElasticSearch - 2021 version

Hi Tom, I can't really speak to Elasticsearch with Koha, as I still just use Zebra. I imagine Ere in Finland or someone from Bywater in the USA might be the best to comment on Elasticsearch. However, I'm curious what OS you are using. Debian/Ubuntu is typically the best option in terms of

Re: [Koha] Koha resource requirements

Hi Barry, I think that all sounds reasonable. If you haven’t done so already, would you consider requesting a wiki account via https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount, so that you can add those notes as you’ve suggested? It should be low effort (in comparison to all the

Re: [Koha] Koha resource requirements

Hi Barry, I think that it is reasonable to expect some minimum requirements to be listed, but it is easier said than done, since Koha is a large multi-component system. Personally, I tend to run many Koha instances on high powered servers with external database servers, so it's rare for me to

Re: [Koha] Red Hat 8, installing dependencies

Hi Tasha, It's great to hear that you're trying to install Koha! However, if I were you, I wouldn't bother with that old wiki page, as it's probably going to confuse more than help. Typically, the Koha community supports Koha installations on Debian and Ubuntu operating systems, but there are

Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 182, Issue 10

Hi Peter, Without rewriting the Koha code, it's impossible to authority control 2 subfields in a field. There's a few reasons why. First, there is only one "9" subfield available for the linkage to the authority record. Second, Koha is hard-coded to authority control only the "a" subfield.

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Happy Advent

Sounds great, Martin! David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 From: Koha-devel On Behalf Of Renvoize, Martin Sent: Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:14 PM To: Koha Devel ; Koha Subject:

Re: [Koha] koha script wiki

I am concerned about adding backend scripts to the wiki. There's no reliable way to ensure those scripts would be correct, and it would be trivial for someone to inject malicious code into the scripts and have unsuspecting users run things which could damage/compromise their backend systems by

Re: [Koha] Add 999$c to Zebra index

I have a fair number of libraries using EDS (in Australia), and EBSCO doesn't use Z39.50 for any of them. EBSCO harvests the records using OAI-PMH and then they use the ILS-DI API for the RTA (Real Time Availability). I think Wolters Kluwer's Ovid does the same thing. Joel, if "find @attr

Re: [Koha] Embed Local video files like YouTube

Hi Vinod, Koha, at least as of 19.11, has the capacity to handle non-YouTube media. I won’t give you remote support here, but perhaps someone else can or perhaps you can engage a support provider. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007

Re: [Koha] Embed Local video files like YouTube

Hi Vinod, I haven't played with the HTML5 Media in Koha, but I've been curious about it, so I decided to take a look after reading your email. Looking at the code, it appears that you can embed other videos and not just Youtube videos. You'll need to use the system preferences

Re: [Koha] Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser and Koha

Hi Lari, It's a good question. I have the Chromium-based Edge, and it's what I use for testing. I've been referring clients away from IE 11 and to Edge (where they can't use Chrome/Firefox), and I haven't heard any complaints about Edge yet. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems

Re: [Koha] Problem with coverflow plugin, Koha 20.05

The issue is that the coverflow plugin doesn't have a "tool" or "report" method, so it won't appear in the Tools or Report modules by default. You'll notice that /cgi-bin/koha/tools/tools-home.pl takes you to /cgi-bin/koha/plugins/plugins-home.pl?method=tool, and

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Plack down due to "GET http://swagger.io/v2/schema.json == Connect timeout"

Thanks, Mason! I think Mason has released a newer version now 3.23+dfsg-1+koha1, which was needed for newer versions of Ubuntu, which used newer versions of libjson-validator-perl than 3.06. So the fix now should just be: apt-get update apt-get install libjson-validator-perl David Cook

Re: [Koha] Koha as Doc Man System

You would need to clarify what you mean by "docs management system". If you're referring to a system as described by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system, then I would say no. Koha isn't a records management system nor is it a digital library. Koha is an integrated

Re: [Koha] Is Koha plugin system safe?

Hi Michal, I would say that the plugin system (like many plugin systems) is risky. As Jonathan indicates, plugins are not reviewed by the Koha Community, so we can make no guarantees regarding safety/security of individual plugins. Since the plugins are third-party code, they could contain

Re: [Koha] Taking patron images out of db into a directory

Recently, I've been re-thinking the scalability of Koha, so it's interesting to hear about this from you, Mengu, as the person who I think runs the biggest Koha installation in the world. Originally, I thought putting images in the database was a bad idea, but it is an easy way to provide

Re: [Koha] multiple Koha zebra problem

Hi George, I’m glad that my email helped! It does feel strange, but that’s the way SysV scripts work. Think about it like a shebang at the top of a script. While it starts with a #, it is still parsed by computers as more than just a comment. David Cook Systems Librarian

Re: [Koha] multiple Koha zebra problem

Hi George, I notice that you didn't answer Katrin's questions. Answering those questions is really important, or we can't really help you very well. Now, it sounds to me like you've installed Koha from either a "git clone" or a tarball, and that you're running multiple Koha instances from

Re: [Koha] need help with accessing koha from outside via

Hi Alvaro, I think that you misunderstand the netstat output there. "tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 1113/apache2" means that it's using a TCP socket that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Heinz: 1. Remove the entries from /etc/hosts 2. Do "nslookup something.dnshome.de" 3.

[Koha] External Independent Security Audit of Koha

Hi all, Fred King's email about using Koha in a Protected Health network reminded me of a question I wanted to pose around the world. Has anyone commissioned an external independent security audit of Koha? That is to say, a security audit from someone other than a Koha support vendor? If

Re: [Koha] icuchain vs charmap

Hi Alvaro, I'm sure the folk at Theke would be able to provide a solid recommendation (https://theke.io/). I mostly support English libraries and they use the CHR (ie charmap word-phrase-utf.chr) indexing. However, libraries I support with French and Arabic use ICU (ie icuchain

Re: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens?

Hi Katrin, I actually did create a transliterate rule which was able to convert the input from "Sinti-Swing" to "SintiSwing Sinti Swing" which created "sintiswing", "sinti", and "swing" as tokens. However, I think the ICU chain file gets used for both indexing and searching, so while it would

Re: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens?

Hi Michael, Your experience suggests to me that you're using Zebra 2.0.59 (which is the package available in the official Debian repositories). There is a bug in that version which causes hyphens to cause an incorrect truncation so that "Sinti-Swing" becomes "Sinti". If you use the Indexdata

Re: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens?

Hi Michael, I'm glad that I got you a bit further on your journey. It's a shame about having to use the CHR indexing. You can find more information here at https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/character-map-files.html. After reading through that, I'm thinking perhaps that CHR indexing

Re: [Koha] How to make the Koha/Zebra search ignore hyphens?

Hi Michael, That's really interesting. I assume that you're using ICU indexing? You could update "phrases-icu.xml" and "words-icu.xml" to strip out hyphens. You would need to re-index all your records afterwards though. I haven't actually tested that particular change, but just taking a

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Problems searching callnumbers with Koha and ICU

HI again, Mason, I just remembered a little trick that you might find useful. Try the following: echo "PZ 7 .W663 1984" | yaz-icu -x -c /path/to/phrases-icu.xml echo "PZ 7 .W663 1984" | yaz-icu -x -c /path/to/words-icu.xml That should show you how the string is normalized and tokenized for

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Problems searching callnumbers with Koha and ICU

Hi Mason, Can you tell us what version of Zebra you're running? And what is your exact query? According to https://packages.debian.org/stretch/idzebra-2.0, you're probably running Zebra 2.0.59, unless you're pulling packages from Indexdata's APT repository. I discovered a ICU bug in Zebra

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] New OPAC design

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