I have been following CA for a bit now and called a few places that were touted to have been using CA. One was USC in the Warner Collection but they said they only used it as a class project and didn't maintain. Another was a Colorado based climbing club. The librarian there said that she had discussed with Seth Koha integration but when a year later that didn't happen, they chose to go with someone else. We are a public library and have 22G of unsorted, uncategorized images that we are beginning to digitize, tag and sort. However, I don't want to do things multiple times, or even twice if I don't have to. Ultimately, I want to be able to make an entry either on Koha or CA and link it to the other. Have you worked more on Koha compatibility and what is the status?
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Koha Integration
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Posted 1 month ago #
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I'm surprised to hear that the Alpine Club was expecting Koha integration. It has never been on our roadmap and I don't recall discussing it with them (or anyone else for that matter). Further, I'm not really sure it's something that is really critical for the primary user base of CollectiveAccess (museums, special collections and archives).
Where was the Alpine Club touted as being a user of CA? We were aware they were considering it, but they were never listed on the CA site (am I missing something?). If USC is no longer using it we'll take them off the list – we rely on users to tell us about the status of their systems, and we heard from USC back at the end of March with tech questions.
So to be clear: no work has been done on Koha integration and we have no plans at present to start. Perhaps a user will choose to develop this at some point, but for now it is not in the cards, at least from us.
Sorry,
seth
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Thank you, that does clear things up a bit. When I googled CA and Koha I had come across an IT pdf done in February 2010 addressing this issue and followed up with a phone call.
Do you have any public libraries that host genealogical/archive data on CA? If so, do they use CA as a standalone and then just link it in through their website or how is it handled?
I really like the organization of Collective Access and I think from the user standpoint it is very accessible. As a public library though, we would have to catalog in two places, a definite drawback. However,I don't see any other programs out there that do integrate.
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