This is my first post to this list. I am a retired computer scientist with
development and system administration experience. I used PERL a lot about 25
years ago but haven’t done much with it since until now. I recently deployed
Koha at the Sacramento FamilySearch Center where I volunteer. The Sac FSC is an
archival library, meaning we don’t allow books to be checked out. We have and
are digitizing our collection of copy protected books. Public domain books are
being digitized and the physical book and the digital copy are sent to the
FamilySearch organization to be added to their system. They are also using Koha
but our Center’s instance is separate. We are making the PDFs of copy protected
books available on-site ONLY, no internet access at this point, and are storing
the books for preservation and space reasons.
We had a need to update the MARC 856 data fields to reflect the location of the
PDFs of our books. I looked at the plugin AddURLsToMarc by Tomás Cohen Arazi.
It didn’t have quite enough capability as we wanted to update a few more of the
subfields. I decided to make a plugin based on AddURLsToMarc that I made more
general and added functionality to allow arbitrary MARC data fields to be added
or deleted. It is working very well.
So, the questions are
- What is the process for sharing such plugins with the Koha community, are
there conventions that are used, etc.?
- Is this the right forum to ask these questions?
- Can users running other version help testing the plugin? I have only tested
it on 23.05.05 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Our plugin is titled UpdateMarcField and I have put it on GitHub in my
koha-plugin-updatemarcfield
<https://github.com/athey3/koha-plugin-updatemarcfield> repository.
I have used local Git extensively for personal code but have only accessed
GitHub not posted items on it prior to this as most things I have worked on
have been proprietary.
Any and all advise is appreciated.
Chuck Athey
Asst. Directory for Technology
Sacramento FamilySearch Center
ath...@gmail.com
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