Re: [Koha] Zebra reindexing issue

function to use Xpath to query the MARCXML to find the problematic entries. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 -Original Message- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:13:19 +0100 Fr

Re: [Koha] SSO Shibboleth & oauth issues

to look at your Koha logs. With the other auth, are you using OAuth or OIDC? David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 -Original Message- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 23:49:06 +10

Re: [Koha] SSO Shibboleth & oauth issues

the Koha logs for anything obvious for your Shibboleth issue in the meantime – that would be helpful. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 From: Justin Dowswell

Re: [Koha] SSO Shibboleth & oauth issues

sessions and logging out. But curious if you’re experiencing it in other contexts… David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 From: David Cook Sent: Friday, 30 June 2023

Re: [Koha] Cronjob warning

Hi Isabel, I suspect that you're using the Ubuntu OS. You'll want to look at this link: https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/issues/354#issuecomment-1679677264 David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02

Re: [Koha] Cronjob warning

Hi Isabel and other folks, Ubuntu have released a patched version of libdbd-mysql-perl so if you install that this problem will go away. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

Re: [Koha] OAI-PMH Setup

EBSCO have done many EDS integrations with Koha, so one would've hoped they'd have a knowledge base article about it by now... David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 -

[Koha] Issues with persistent TCP connections in Microsoft Azure cloud

rm https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Elasticsearch#Microsoft_Azure_cloud_pla tform I hope that this information is useful to other people out in the world implementing Koha. It was a very annoying problem with a surprisingly simple solution in the end. David Cook Senior Software Engineer

Re: [Koha] Out of memory when Koha starts due to opac-search.pl and 500.pl

;ll just use one IP address that is easy to detect and block, but sometimes it might just do 1-2 hits per IP address (from a variety of different IP ranges). Let me know if you'd like to chat more about it. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milson

[Koha] Displaying MARC 340 in OPAC

t you'd need to have a descriptive label per subfield instead of just rendering the whole field (like the MARC 300 field) without context, but that could crowd the interface. Keen to gather opinions. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point N

Re: [Koha] Elastic search for Arabic

Hi Mohamad, Does your collection only contain Arabic or does it contain multiple languages? I've ben considering moving an Arabic/French/English collection to Elasticsearch, so I'd love to hear more about your experience. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Sui

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Reminder: dev meetings are essential

I’m mostly resigned to never attending dev meetings. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 From: koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] [Important] Update your MySQL|MariaDB configuration to avoid data loss

implementing that locally. I’m happy to do that and report back. I use BEFORE INSERT triggers in PostgreSQL on non-Koha databases with a much higher volume of transactions, and they work well. But I’m happy to try and then report back. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Results of the poll "Ready to help the Koha community?"

promise that I’ll put a tonne of time into this, but due to my work on Linked Data/RDF (both on Bugzilla and CPAN), I figure I should participate on https://tree.taiga.io/project/joubu-koha-rm-1711/epic/33. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] [Important] Update your MySQL|MariaDB configuration to avoid data loss

look at adding insert triggers to prevent duplicate IDs, but I just haven’t had the time to work on this yet… David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 From: koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha

[Koha] Inventory lists incorrectly sorted

ible for everyone to run this. Keen to hear ideas about how people think we should resolve this issue for all people. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899

Re: [Koha] Inventory lists incorrectly sorted

-screen inventory list and the CSV/spreadsheet export inventory list should be identical in how they’re sorted. That way you can print off a shelf list, do your inventory, and then scroll through your screen marking items as seen in the order that they were seen for real. David Cook Systems

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha 18.11.00 released

Woohoo! Great job, kidclamp! David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 From: koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Koha] koha and wordpress

i.koha-community.org/wiki/Version_Control_Using_Git Alternatively, if you would like to pay someone to write this feature for you, you could consider one of the companies found here: http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/ Cheers! David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wa

Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 119, Issue 23

Result.xsl). David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -Original Message- > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:07:13 -0300 > From: Pablo Bianchi > To: "Hernandez, Heather" > Cc: Koha-org - List > Subject: Re: [Koha] Sys

Re: [Koha] System generated field 001 control number

mentioning that cataloguing plugins might be helpful. I suspect that she’s correct. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 From: Pablo Bianchi [mailto:pablo.bian...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2015 11:45 PM To: David Cook Cc: Koha

Re: [Koha] Using Athens to log in to Koha?

her libraries and in conjunction with other local enhancements which also don't necessarily make sense for all Koha users. Since you're in the UK, I suggest getting in touch with Martin at PTFS-Europe. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW

Re: [Koha] Searching in Arabic

ion of Koha are you using? Your link to the manual is 3.2... are you on 3.2 or a newer version? Additionally, how did you install Koha? Was it via the Debian packages, the tarball, or Git? Cheers, David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -

Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 121, Issue 18

tions between how the fields are indexed. Of course, since you're probably only trying to provide access to a handful of commonly used fields, this shouldn't be too laborious of a process. It is possible to fix your situation one way or another, Jesse. XSLT is powerful and DOM inde

Re: [Koha] Searching in Arabic

Just fixing the subject line to aid people in discovering my response... See my real reply below. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -Original Message- > From: David Cook [mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au] > Sent: Friday, 13

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] E noho rā, Koha

Congratulations on the new job! We're sorry to see you go, but hope that you enjoy Amsterdam! It was a pleasure meeting you in Tasmania, and sharing the Oceanic timezone with you on IRC! David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -

Re: [Koha] MarcEdit / Koha Set-up

leshooting Zebra in the future). Sorry if this email has too much or not enough information. I take a special interest in Zebra with Koha, so feel free to send more Zebra/Z39.50 queries my way : ). David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 >

Re: [Koha] MarcEdit / Koha Set-up (follow-up)

oha's Z39.50 server Zebra using MarcEdit, and update the records I find : ). David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -----Original Message- > From: David Cook [mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au] > Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2015 11:56 A

Re: [Koha] MarcEdit / Koha Set-up (yet another follow-up)

l. By default, you connect using anonymous read-only access, but it would be trivial for someone to look at the Koha source code to read the defaults and use those to get write-access to your Zebra server... David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW

Re: [Koha] Help from people experienced in Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages (and Vietnamese)

he original unaccenting of usernames started with http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7411. Sophie: Do you recall how a userid with diacritics could cause login failures? David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -Ori

Re: [Koha] Help from people experienced in Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages (and Vietnamese)

mple so this is an exaggeration). On the other hand, maybe people are used to writing usernames without diacritics? I think that's the real question we want to ask people. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > -Original Message- > F

Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH

tal library? Or both? Or something else? I'm currently working on an OAI-PMH harvester for Koha, but the sole intent at the moment is to harvest metadata records from other systems and import them into Koha. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH

and people will be able to download the file using that link. It's not as full featured as an actual digital library, but it could theoretically work. If you set up Koha to be an OAI-PMH repository, that link to the file would be in the metadata. David Cook Systems Librarian Pros

Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH

I’ll leave that question for other people on the listserv. I don’t know of any examples, but I’m sure there probably are some out in the world. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 From: Flo Pouyenne [mailto:flo.pouye...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: [Koha] Koha Search Indexes

because nothing is indexed in the "uri:w" index:register combo. I have to run to an appointment, but hopefully that helps a bit. One day, I'd like to write a program which parses ccl.properties to provide a list of qualifies that cross-references with biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl

Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH [and digital materials]

OAI-PMH harvesting (which I’m working on now), moving to ElasticSearch for search and retrieval, a new REST API, etc. Even if you don’t have the money yourself, you might propose ideas on the koha-devel listserv and see if anyone is interested in sponsoring that work. Cheers, David Cook

Re: [Koha] HTTP::OAI

If you're not on a Debian-based system, I'd try the following: cpan install App::Minus cpanm HTTP::OAI@3.28 Version 4.03 of HTTP::OAI is very broken, if I recall correctly. More info at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=102010 David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient

Re: [Koha] Indexing MARC21 tag 264, why not use indexes pl and

I think it should be indexed the same as 260. Maybe a bit differently due to some conditions tied to indicators, but yeah... ugh. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 > -Original Message- > Date

Re: [Koha] OPAC searches fail with ICU indexing enabled

ό is 0xce 0x8c. So there isn't a clear relation there. If I had to guess, I'd say that Zebra thinks it's using ICU and UTF-8 but the data is still stored as Latin-1. Failing that... I have some other more in-depth troubleshooting ideas. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosenti

Re: [Koha] OPAC searches fail with ICU indexing enabled

oblems with records in the database, so scanning all the records is probably a good idea. If you have a very large database, you can break it up into chunks using biblionumber. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Office: 02 9212

Re: [Koha] OPAC searches fail with ICU indexing enabled

records, then that would be the next thing to examine in more detail I suppose. I had hoped to go to Kohacon16, but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Moving on

, but best of luck with your new opportunity! David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 From: koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org] On

Re: [Koha] Unable to use zebra facets on OPAC in 16.11

x27;m looking at getting those pushed into the Koha core code. Sorry I'm not able to help more, but there's just a bit more explanation about what was happening with the facets. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia O

[Koha] Introduction to Prosentient Systems

G’day, Koha folks: My name is David Cook and while some of you might recognize my name from the #koha IRC channel or some of my patches on Bugzilla, I would actually like today to introduce the Australian Koha support provider that I work for: Prosentient Systems. Prosentient has been

Re: [Koha] CDS/ISIS to MARC21 (Koha) issue

not actually have or need a 100 field in a record. With that established, why are you considering "duplicate" fields do be a problem? I'm not familiar with ISIS's export format(s). Are you using a CSV dump and then using the "Delimited Text Translator" tool in MarcE

Re: [Koha] RDA framework

ork might still need some alterations, but it should include all the fields and subfields available. David Cook Systems Librarian (BA,FRLS,MLIS) Prosentient Systems P/L ABN 31 078 409 168 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo NSW 2007 tel: 02 92120899 fax: 02 92120885 dc...@prosentient.com.au -Original Me

Re: [Koha] SECURITY release: MARC::File::XML 1.0.2

Hi Galen: If/when libmarc-xml-perl gets added to debian.koha-community.org, will Koha users who installed via the Debian packages get the update automatically? -David -Original Message- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:32:23 -0800 From: Galen Charlton To: Koha-List Subject: [Koha]

Re: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider

I also struggled to find the link back to the Koha community, although I notice that it is in the same style as the other links on the page. While I think this has web accessibility/usability issues, I suppose it's no less visible than the other links on the page. Personally, I don't really like t

Re: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider

Agreed, Robin and Galen. While it is a personal inclination to have more community info, it doesn't necessarily make sense to require certain content (other than the link) in the first place. As Galen points out, we really don't want this list to represent any endorsement, and the more rules we h

Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 106, Issue 11

I would suggest logging this in Bugzilla with an outline of how to reproduce the bug :) David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:14:32 +0100 > From: Elaine Bradtke > To: Owen Leonard > Cc: koha > Subject:

Re: [Koha] Integrating digital repositories

ll trying to think of the best way to do it (rather than implement it and then have to try to re-write it after people have already started using it). As for experiences... at the moment we link DSpace and Koha using custom scripts. I would prefer to go the OAI route but just haven't had the tim

Re: [Koha] Change search engine in koha 3.16

ning that quotation marks aren't typically for an "exact" match, but rather for a "phrase" match, which the Advanced Search form already supports (without a need for quotation marks). David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007 >

Re: [Koha] Zebra problems

in again. If you find that your biblionumber is being stored sometimes in 090$c and sometimes in 999$c, it might be an idea to run "touch_all_biblios.pl" after you've changed your "Koha to MARC mapping" to 999$c (and 999$d). That should put the biblionumber (and biblioitemnu

Re: [Koha] A Road Map for Koha

Hi Bob: That sounds like a great idea. I've been keen on a Road Map for a while now. I also like the idea of the two new roles. I'm not volunteering for either, but I think it would be rather useful to have people in those shoes! David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/

Re: [Koha] Securing opac-search

erm, but hopefully help in the long-term. I'm always happy to discuss this topic with people as well if they have their own changes in mind or want to help out. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 08

Re: [Koha] Koha as ID provider to EduGain or EduGate

ually I'll probably need to update the plugin. That said, they've already done that once before, and I've already updated it once before haha. Anyway, I hope that's helpful. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 A

Re: [Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 234, Issue 17

have unattended upgrades on or frequently update your server, then you'll generally be fine. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025

Re: [Koha] e signature & Koha

ttps://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33985 but it hasn't progressed. There's privacy/security issues that come from capturing and storing signatures. But you could potentially pay someone to develop a Koha plugin to do this job. David Cook Senior Software Engineer P

Re: [Koha] e signature & Koha

Thanks for pointing that out, Arthur. After I sent my email, I thought perhaps I was wrong. Difficult to stay on top of 883 different system preferences... haha. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899

Re: [Koha] Printing spine labels in non-Roman characters, Thai in particular

n in the Label creator as a backup option for people without other options. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 -Original Message- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:17:23 +0100 From: David Liddle To:

Re: [Koha] Koha bug in item search

I'm not super familiar with the translation mechanisms, but I reckon that whatever replaces the text in _() constructs should perform some escaping (at the very least of double quotes). I'll raise a Bugzilla issue for that... David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Sui

[Koha] Printing spine labels in non-Roman characters, Thai in particular

upport for a particular language that isn't supported by the DejaVu font... the above should work. (If you were so inclined, a person could technically make a font with an assemblage of all the scripts they need to support, but it would take some work and technical knowledge.) Anyway, I ho

Re: [Koha] circulation overdues report

g/bugzilla3 for that enhancement to hide the personal information . David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 -Original Message- Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 02:06:12 + From: Сычев Игорь Алексе

Re: [Koha] rabbitmq-server worker-output.log error message reframes filled my server's hard drive and crashed apache2 and mysqld

Hi Dwight, Thanks for sharing that. As you note, the problem is reported in Bug 34070. There's a fix in place for the upcoming Koha 25.05. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 -Ori

Re: [Koha] moving from local IP to OpenAthens SSO access - Koha users

the Identity Provider (and the OpenAthens and the Identity Provider) needs to produce a signed metadata file to exchange, and Koha needs additional server-side config, but it's the same SSO concept at the end of the day, so same end user user experience. Anyway, hope that helps! David