Anyone pick up the Manx ball yet?

On Mon, 2010-04-19 15:57:42 +0200, Steve Maddison <steve at cosam.org> wrote: 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 -- ? ? ?Jan-Benedict Glaw ? ? ?jbglaw at lug-owl.de ? ? ? ? ? ? ?+49-172-7608481 Signature of: ? ? ? ? ?GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too? the second ?: