managing koha installs in a developing country
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A presentation at Kohacon 12 in Edinburgh, ScotlandTRANSCRIPT
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Managing Koha installs in Managing Koha installs in a developing countrya developing countryOlugbenga AdaraProjektlink Konsult LimitedIbadan, Nigeria(Presentation at Kohacon12, Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Who am I?Who am I?ICT Consultant with Projektlink
Konsult Limited, Ibadan, NigeriaProjektlink Konsult Limited is a
Koha support company Also into Management Training
and Business Systems AutomationAbout 17 Koha installs in the past
5 yearsWhat else?
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So what’s different about So what’s different about DCs?DCs?So what’s different about DCs?Developing countries are in
general countries which have not achieved a significant degree of industrialization relative to their populations, and which have, in most cases a medium to low standard of living. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country)
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So practically I mean - So practically I mean - Low infrastructureHuman resources issuesMost have no form of automation Data entry / analogue to digital
migration is a major issue
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Managing the challengesManaging the challenges
Where there is no (reliable) Internet Access
Using a virtual machine for offsite installation. Vmware (or Virtualbox).
Clone virtual and restore on physical using clonezilla
Upgrades – Only manually possibleWhen major upgrades required?
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Koha in Virtual MachineKoha in Virtual Machine
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ClonezillaClonezilla
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Managing the challengesManaging the challenges
Human resources / trainingSimplify training – Patrons
management, Cataloguing and Circulation
Very simple Book/Journal Cataloguing Framework
Automated scripts for backups
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Simple Koha FrameworkSimple Koha Framework
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Managing the challengesManaging the challengesAnalogue records to digital migration
Scan isbn when available Use MarcEdit to search for
records in batchesUpload into reservoir
orAdd koha items (952) and import
into kohaAny better method?
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Batch processing in Batch processing in MarcEditMarcEdit
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ConclusionConclusion
Koha has given Nigerian Libraries / Librarians an opportunity to be on the main stream of library technology despite several challenges
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Links to mentioned toolsLinks to mentioned toolsMarcedit -
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
VMWare - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads
Virtualbox - https://www.virtualbox.org/
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QuestionsQuestions
Thank [email protected]
www.projektlinkkonsult.comkohacon13bid.projektlinkkonsult.co
m(Hopefully will see you all in Nigeria next year)