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Re: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

rossfsin...@gmail.com (Ross Singer) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:33:01 UT

Great! Obviously the data being carried there is somewhat Alto
specific in structure, although the concepts should be fairly common
and (hopefully) have some analog in Symphony.
Always happy to help! Don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks,
-Ross.

Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk (mg_ford) — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:15:16 UT

Ross, thanks ever so much -- that looks like a really comprehensive
and useful post that I'm going to have to work my way through over the
next few days (weeks?!).

I suspect I'm going to have a bunch of follow-up questions as I do so
(I think I detect one approaching already just loking at the basic /

Re: [jangle-discuss] Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

rossfsin...@gmail.com (Ross Singer) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:19:47 UT

Mike, these are perfectly reasonable questions, and, without a doubt,
it's a gray area since we've only just had Jangle implementations to
figure out how this behavior might actually work.
As far as your identifier question: no, they don't have to be numeric.
They just have to be unique and URL encoded (if they aren't URL

Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk (mg_ford) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:55:56 UT

Hello again -- been rather dormant for quite a while, I'm afraid, and
now we're under the cosh a bit to have something working by the end of
our funding period. I'd like to say thanks for the generous
contributions of code sample I've received from various places.

I'm struggling to get my head round everything, and could use some

Re: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

timmcge...@gmail.com (Tim McGeary) — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:48:28 UT

I'm glad that SirsiDynix UK consultants are involved. I would
absolutely expect them to advise you of this same thing along the way.
In either event, I'm very excited you are working on this. Keep us posted!

Tim

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RE: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk (Ford, Mike) — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:28:03 UT

Ah, yes, thanks for that. I think that's an issue that in the excitement of winning funding and getting started we probably hadn't thought about. However, we do have SirsiDynix UK involved as consultants (even if only minimally) so hopefully they'd have offered us the same advice in the event ....!!

Re: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

timmcge...@gmail.com (Tim McGeary) — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:21:59 UT

My systems specialist, Mark Canney (mac...@lehigh.edu) is working on
this right now. He's the best person to contact off-list. Bucknell
University already has LDAP running in production. Bill Burkholder
(burkh...@BUCKNELL.EDU) would be the best contact. Please tell him that
I referred you to him.

RE: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk (Ford, Mike) — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:13:35 UT

Thanks for that -- we'll go that route then.

PHP is our everyday scripting language, so having examples in PHP is certainly helpful. The reasoning behind perl is that all SirsiDynix's utilities are written in it, so it's pretty much guaranteed to be available on any out-of-the-box Symphony ILS. Guess we'll just have to suck it and see.

Re: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

rossfsin...@gmail.com (Ross Singer) — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:17:35 UT

I would go with the latter, which is also what I've done with the PHP
libraries: [link] and the Talis Alto
connector: [link]. Links can be
provided to all these from the main the Jangle site and the code site,
so I don't think it's a problem to distribute them.

RE: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk (Ford, Mike) — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:20:05 UT

Incidentally, on that topic: we are also mandated to place our source code in an open code repository (such as Google Code!) with technical documentation alongside it. I'm presuming that eventually the code will want to end up in the jangle repository, but is the preference for us just to commit there from the word go, or should we set up our own separate Google Code repository? (The latter has some advantage for us, as there is a second string to the project which is not properly part of Jangle itself.)

RE: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk (Ford, Mike) — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:21:41 UT

Terrific. As I said before, I'll take any and all help to get us kick-started -- and our everyday scripting language is PHP, so no problems there.

Ooh, interesting -- we're planning to go to 3.3 in May (test) and June (live), and are very interested in the LDAP authentication. Would be interested to get any interesting news you care to share (off this list, of course -- maybe on the SD

Re: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

timmcge...@gmail.com (Tim McGeary) — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:45:44 UT

Mike,

I'd be happy to send you the MyAccount package (off list) if you don't
already have it. It's written in PHP.

Also, we are starting to test the new LDAP authentication for user
accounts with Symphony 3.3.1 to prep for a (hopeful) summer move to
VuFind and a separate MyAccount app like the package I have from

RE: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk (Ford, Mike) — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:46:48 UT

Thanks -- at this point, I'll take any and all contributions to help get us kick-started ;), so yes please! We have at least 3 people on the team who are API trained (myself twice, 7 years apart), and we have written Bincustom perl utilities for customized searches, custom reports using Sirsi's perl framework, and some perl fragments for iLink page customization. My personal background is as a programmer of (mumble-mumble) years' experience who's migrated in to Library IT systems, so this kind of project ought to be right up my alley. There does seem to be quite a lot to get our collective heads around, so I expect we'll be putting appearances in here a fair bit.

Re: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

emilylyn...@gmail.com (Emily Lynema) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:25:04 UT

Ross,

I had not been thinking in terms of using PUT, GET, DELETE, etc. on
attributes of resources. I like that idea.

-emily

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Re: [jangle-discuss] Re: Jangle Connector for SirsiDynix Symphony

rossfsin...@gmail.com (Ross Singer) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:16:38 UT

I don't disagree that it's often easier to think of these sorts of
things in a service (that is, "verb")-based context although I'm not
sure the end-result is any more or less complicated (and, certainly,
if "fines" were a resource, this would be trivial).

My approach to this in how Jangle is currently designed (where you