[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 39, Issue 12
Amy Terlaga
terlaga at biblio.org
Sat Sep 12 12:13:38 EDT 2009
Hi Lori--
I'm not sure if this fits into your definition of ILS add-on, but what
about reader's advisory tools for the OPAC like Library Thing for
Libraries? I know that they just got LTFL working in Evergreen.
Amy
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Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation
Middlebury, CT
terlaga at biblio.org
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> 1. personal post to Evergreen community (Steve Wills)
> 2. Re: personal post to Evergreen community (Lori Ayre)
> 3. Open ILS Add-ons (Lori Ayre)
> 4. Re: Settings-tester results (Dan Scott)
> 5. Re: Open ILS Add-ons (Tara Robertson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:29:40 +0000
> From: "Steve Wills" <swills at beyond-print.com>
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] personal post to Evergreen community
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
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> Heya guys,
>
>
> I am posting this using my personal email so that it is clear that
> this letter is from Steve Wills and NOT from NELINET nor from
> Lyrasis. This morning I posted a letter on the Koha site where there
> is a debate going on about whether they should form a foundation
> around the Koha software. This was my response to that community,
> which I would like to share with you as well.
>
>
> Sung to the tune of "Where Have All the Sources Gone".
>
>
> My Two cents is that we do not form a Koha community or an Evergreen
> community in competition. Let's talk about forming/joining a library
> community which would support and endorse Library support projects
> in cooperation.
>
>
> The Evergreen community is at almost that same place at the age of
> three that this Koha community seems to be with respect to this
> subject. The histories are different in terms of development detail
> but within the library community, there appears to be some blood in
> the water and that is making it difficult to see clearly downstream.
> Open Source communities are formed for the benefit of a global world
> in need of affordable, considered solutions. I would propose that we
> think about a foundation dedicated to managing and perfecting
> solutions for libraries with a structure that draws from such
> successful FOSS projects as Elicpse, Sourceforge, and Apache. Such a
> foundation would be chartered to serve librarian, patron and
> developer alike without any particular alligence to Koha, Evergreen
> or whatever else we spawn in the future that we wish to give back to
> the library community.
>
>
> Steve Wills
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> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:28:12 -0700
> From: Lori Ayre <loriayre at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] personal post to Evergreen community
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>, Koha list
> <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
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> Steve (and all),
>
> I support this idea and if there's a way I can be of assistance,
> let's talk.
> I think getting a ball like this rolling would have to come from
> someone
> like us - people who are not actively involved in just one of the
> products
> but who sees the importance of both products/projects succeeding.
>
> Lori Ayre
> The Galecia Group
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Steve Wills <swills at beyond-
> print.com>wrote:
>
>> Heya guys,
>>
>> I am posting this using my personal email so that it is clear that
>> this
>> letter is from Steve Wills and NOT from NELINET nor from Lyrasis.
>> This
>> morning I posted a letter on the Koha site where there is a debate
>> going on
>> about whether they should form a foundation around the Koha
>> software. This
>> was my response to that community, which I would like to share with
>> you as
>> well.
>>
>> Sung to the tune of "Where Have All the Sources Gone".
>>
>> My Two cents is that we do not form a Koha community or an Evergreen
>> community in competition. Let's talk about forming/joining a library
>> community which would support and endorse Library support projects in
>> cooperation.
>>
>> The Evergreen community is at almost that same place at the age of
>> three
>> that this Koha community seems to be with respect to this subject.
>> The
>> histories are different in terms of development detail but within the
>> library community, there appears to be some blood in the water and
>> that is
>> making it difficult to see clearly downstream. Open Source
>> communities are
>> formed for the benefit of a global world in need of affordable,
>> considered
>> solutions. I would propose that we think about a foundation
>> dedicated to
>> managing and perfecting solutions for libraries with a structure
>> that draws
>> from such successful FOSS projects as Elicpse, Sourceforge, and
>> Apache.
>> Such a foundation would be chartered to serve librarian, patron and
>> developer alike without any particular alligence to Koha, Evergreen
>> or
>> whatever else we spawn in the future that we wish to give back to the
>> library community.
>>
>> Steve Wills
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:12:42 -0700
> From: Lori Ayre <loriayre at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open ILS Add-ons
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org, Koha list
> <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm doing research for a program I'm involved in on Open Source ILS
> add-ons. I'd love to hear back from any of you who have some
> favorites that
> you think are important for me to mention.
>
> In terms of categories of ILS add-ons, I'm thinking OPAC, metasearch
> and
> content aggregators, link resolvers....what am I missing?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Lori
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:53:33 -0400
> From: Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net>
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Settings-tester results
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Message-ID: <1252727613.3938.165.camel at dbs-denials>
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> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 08:39 +0200, makekee at msu.ac.zw wrote:
>> I think it is better to post the results from my settings-tester.pl
>> script. Here
>> are the output:
>>
> <snip>
>> Please install one of the following modules: Net::Z3950
>> Net::Z3950::ZOOM
>
> You'll need to force the install of the Net::Z3950::ZOOM CPAN module
> eventually, although that's not causing the main problem that we're
> seeing below. Net::Z3950::ZOOM is mostly needed for importing records
> from Z39.50 servers.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Checking Jabber connection for user opensrf, domain private.localhost
>> * Jabber successfully connected
>>
>> Checking Jabber connection for user opensrf, domain public.localhost
>> * Jabber successfully connected
>>
>> Checking Jabber connection for user router, domain public.localhost
>> * Jabber successfully connected
>>
>> Checking Jabber connection for user router, domain private.localhost
>> * Jabber successfully connected
>
> Good, good.
>
>> Checking database connections
>> DBI connect('dbname=;host=;port=','',...) failed: could not connect
>> to server:
>> No such file or directory
>> Is the server running locally and accepting
>> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>> at settings-tester.pl line 205
>> * /opensrf/default/reporter/setup :: Unable to connect to database
>> dbi:Pg:dbname=;host=;port=, user=, password=
>> * /opensrf/default/reporter/setup :: Unable to connect to database
>> dbi:Pg:dbname=;host=;port=, user=, password=
>
> Hmm, this is bad. Does your /openils/conf/opensrf.xml file have any
> database connections defined? It sounds like the connection info is
> all
> blank.
>
> This could happen, I suppose, if the eg_db_config.pl script was run
> with
> blank values for the database name / hostname / port / user / password
> arguments.
>
>>
>> If i start the opensrf services there are no error messages and i
>> am able to
>> view the web opac both on the local machine and on remote machines.
>> Help me
>> guys.
>
> Right, you don't need a working database connection to see the OPAC
> (but
> you do need it for the OPAC to work). I would suggest looking in
> opensrf.xml for <database> elements and ensuring that the connection
> information is all set correctly, then run settings-tester.pl again.
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:25:16 -0700
> From: Tara Robertson <information.detective at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open ILS Add-ons
> To: loriayre at gmail.com, Evergreen Discussion Group
> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Message-ID:
> <7ef4bf440909120825n3665bc7fj6a50cabc3cc04e4f at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> I can't think of other major categories, but I can think of a few
> examples
> of specific tools. While not exactly add-ons, here are some things
> that a
> few libraries have integrated into their catalog or library website.
>
> Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada) has some open source
> tools
> including a serials management tool (CUFTS), link resolver (GODOT),
> and
> federated search for databases (dbWIZ): http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts
>
> Kete is a collaborative digital collection/repository kinda thing,
> developed
> Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications in New Zealand
> (the same
> collaboration who started Koha): http://kete.net.nz/ I can't find it
> on
> their site now but Auckland City Library will be using Kete for a
> local
> history, and/or Chinese history digtal collection. Digital NZ uses
> Kete as a
> container for users to submit digital stuff to the Digital NZ
> collection
> that is not already online.
>
> I'd love to read your research, can you post a link back here when
> you're
> done?
>
> Cheers,
> tara
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Lori Ayre <loriayre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm doing research for a program I'm involved in on Open Source ILS
>> add-ons. I'd love to hear back from any of you who have some
>> favorites that
>> you think are important for me to mention.
>>
>> In terms of categories of ILS add-ons, I'm thinking OPAC,
>> metasearch and
>> content aggregators, link resolvers....what am I missing?
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> Lori
>>
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