16 May
2010
16 May
'10
4:53 a.m.
On Mon, 2010-04-19 15:57:42 +0200, Steve Maddison <steve at cosam.org> wrote:
Since then it seems to have gone quiet. Did anyone end
up doing
anything with the dump, or were all the requests for this simply to
ensure that the raw data was preserved?
I've not yet done a lot with it, though I downloaded it when it was
made available and inspected it a bit.
After moving to a new flat, I actually realized how many books and
magazines my girlfriend and I own. That made me think about an
Integrated Library System (ILS), so we're thinking to use Koha[1] to
manage all our stuff. (For now, that's only like getting an overview
over all of our available books.)
Manx is, to some extend, a search frontend to a distributed library
with a number of branches (where actual data is stored, like on the
Manx site itself, or on Bitkeepers, or ...)
What's missing in a typical ILS is working on TOC data; however, I
guess that this can be added by mapping a number of MARC 21/UNIMARC
fields. So instead of hacking an own "Manx", it could be fruitful to
use something like Koha, possibly extending it a bit. Even right now,
you can attach URLs or files (eg. the PDF files) to an entry. Being
new to Koha, full-text (and TOC) searching might not be possible right
now, but it might be worth discussing it with the Koha people. (I'll
at least do that on IRC sometime soon.)
MfG, JBG
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