Koha-Coral

Integrating Koha (for physical

collections) and Coral (for electronic

collections)

Document under CC BY-SA KohaCon16, 2016-06-01

Koha-Coral

Koha ➔Management (acquisition, cataloguing,

circulating) of physical resources ➔Management (acquisition, cataloguing, access

to) of local e-resource ➔NO management of electronic subscriptions

(serials or ebooks) ➔75% to 90% of acquisition budget now spent in e-

resources

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Coral ➔4 main modules ➔Modular

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Organizations ➔DB with vendors, editors, publishers,

partners, … ➔Contacts ➔Issues with an Org ➔Licenses attached to an Org

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Licensing ➔Define available expressions/terms for licenses ➔Enter licenses, with the different

expressions/terms. ➔Able to import/export ONIX-PL files

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Usage Statistics ➔Use SUSHI protocol to download

package/titles usage ➔Give statistics about your patrons usage of

what you purchased

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Resources ➔Resource stand for Packages and Titles for e-

resources ➔Any type of e-resources (e-subscription/e-

books, paid/free, …) ➔Each resource is linked to Organizations and

License ➔Resource are ordered following a workflow,

defined in the admin section of the module ➔Able to import KBART files

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Integrating Koha and Coral to build a

NGLS

Koha Coral

Discovery tool

gokb

Activate resource bought

KB derivated

Bacon

Buying process

KB Ebsco

Public interface

query

Send catalogue

Link resolver

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What’s next ➔Convince 2 communities !

➔Coral: agrees that it’s needed and want to be as “ILS

agnostic” as possible.

➔Koha community: ?

➔Funding ➔Partial funding by Ebsco

➔Partial funding by BibLibre

➔Searching for more funding !

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➔Expected implementation ➔Webservices to write in Koha (many) and Coral

(few)

➔Data model to update in Koha (little) and Coral (a

lot)

➔Many use case to deal with (for example: testing an

e-resource, renewing an e-resource,…)

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What’s next ➔Timeline

➔Webservices submitted step by step

➔Summer 2017 for a 1st working version

References

Main websites: ➔Koha: http://koha-community.org ➔Coral: http://www.coral-erm.org ➔BibLibre: http://www.biblibre.com

THANK YOU !