Fwd: [Isis-users] ABCD v.2 - 2nd announcement in English
bhowa tg
Dear colleagues
During this week we will begin to distribute tasks to the volunteers who help in different modules that will be updated in ABCD v.2. According to the plan presented last week, programming tasks begin next week. (The plan is copied down).
The tasks are distributed by areas or modules,
and each of
these areas will be a person
responsible
for coordination.
The areas of work we have already defined and also
those responsible are
presented
in the following list. Some
tasks will begin later, so we still
do not have assigned coordinators, these
are
indicated as N/A = not assigned
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Area |
responsible |
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MARC database definitions |
Edwin Hubner |
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SeCS-Web |
Alisson de Castro |
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Documentation · updating manual · updating online helps |
N/A |
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Updating ABCD Site to v.5.2x |
Monica Texeira |
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Utilities · PHP applets |
Ernesto Spinak Zuleima Guédez |
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EmpWeb |
Egbert de Smet |
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Testing |
N/A |
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Versioning to Linux |
Alberto Rosenberg |
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Translation control · English · Portuguese · French · Spanish |
Andrew Buxton - N/A - Eustache Megnigbeto - N/A |
- - |
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Preparing the package for distribution |
N/A |
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If you want to cooperate in some of the areas mentioned in the list, you can write directly to the area coordinator. If the job you're interested in is not yet assigned to a coordinator you can write to my address.
We request
with special emphasis NOT to send queries to
Guilda Ascencio
because she will
be devoted to program all the main functions of ABCD
and she does not have time to answer personal
questions. If you think your
problem or
question is important, then
write directly to
the list
Regards
Ernesto Spinak
Plan for improvements and new functions for ABCD – v.1 – 9/3/2012
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GENERAL |
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Align ABCD Suite to PHP 5.3 or better |
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Change all calls to IsisScript to direct calls to CISIS |
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Complete option of using Copies as a separate database or including accession numbers in the Catalog dabase |
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Add a flagging function in Update Inverted File to avoid freezing |
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Change ABCD Site v.4.1 with version BVS Site 5.1.11. - DOCUMENT how to upgrade from Site 4.1 to Site 5.1.11 |
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Open mirror Sites of ABCD |
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Guide explaining the process of updating from ABCD 1.x to 2.0 |
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Change method of sending data to server from GET to POST so it is possible to send more data |
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Make it possible to generate from ABCD MX scripts that can be executed from the command line. This is needed for those processes which take a long time and make the server appear to freeze with the possibility of time-outs. |
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NEW features / modules |
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Thesaurus. Creation of databases with Thes structure and management. More than one db, more than one Authority File |
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OAI new module for replacement of present version |
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Digital Library Feature (full text records up to 1 MB in this version) |
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CENTRAL |
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cataloguing |
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Simplify the MARC worksheets |
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Replace the editor of FDT, FST, worksheets, etc because it does not function well in all browsers, in particular Chrome |
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Organize the different types of field, and clarify the different options of date fields more clearly |
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Quality control functions in the checking true/false, but it does not function in dynamic situations, and should apply in procs in accordance with the context in BEGIN or END. The option of warning does not work, only the option fatal. |
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Accept fields where the first subfield does NOT have a delimiter (^*) |
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The delimiters ^1 ^2 should be enabled as real subfields and NOT used as MARC indicators Note: ^0 should never be used |
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When in a series of subfields one is empty, it produces a “shift” in the sequence of data |
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CEPAL/Biblo, the option is not working to put up a file of the full text. I have already tried to change path in the pft that is inherited from Cepal, without success. |
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Automatic field in the record with the login name of the operator |
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When adding data or editing, it would be good to add an option that opens all the field groups or closes them. |
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Function for checking the ISBN (10 or 13 dígits) when it is entered |
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Allow set pre-selections (default values) in picklists |
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Text following apostrophe. While editing a subfield whose content contains an apostrophe, I notice that data previously input after the apostrophe disappears. For example, if I enter in 245$a the text : Etat des lieux des droits de l'homme dans le monde, while modifying the record, the new content becomes: Etat des lieux des droits de l… |
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Adding copies and loan objects: This function should be revised. Adding and deleting copies works, but the process of adding these to the loan objects gives problems. It adds the copy, but it still shows that it is in process, and one has to edit it manually. Are loan objects deleted automatically when they are deleted in the copies database? |
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Could a procedure be added whereby item information in existing databases in the catalogue itself can be exported and copies and loan objects can be populated? It would be very time consuming to add items and loan objects manually in very large databases. |
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Z39.50 searching: Some providers, e.g. OCLC require a user name and password to download records. Presently one can't use these databases in ABCD, as there is no option to add the the name and password in the Z39.50 configuration. |
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Z39.50 conversion from for example MARC 21 records does not remove the punctuation in the MARC records, e.g. the / or the : . Is there a way that once could specify what should be removed when the record is converted to the local format in the conversion table? |
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In ABCD, a fixed length coded field is automatically linked to position 6 of the Leader of the data base in which it is defined and provides a child window that is automatically activated for data input according to the material being described and indicated in position 6 of the Leader. Therefore, it is impossible to have more than one active fixed length coded field in the same database. Hence, it is not possible to define a complete UNIMARC database structure with ABCD, because this format requires about twenty fixed length coded fields. |
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A revision and improvement in the assignment of the control number, since the control number is the basic element for the relationship between records, loans module, etc. and therefore cannot have duplicates. Currently the automatic assignment is done only for new records (originals). In my opinion it should also be assigned in the records created by copy cataloguing, therefore in the records created by copying (either Z39.50, of the same database or another one), which is much used in practice, or the control number is not normalized, or it generates duplicates. Another detail: when assigning a control number, either automatically or manually, the system would have to make a duplicate test and not allow generating duplicates. |
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Utilities |
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Many times it is necessary to load a temporary PFT or modify and/or check something in an existing one. It is complex to go to modify, or takes a long time. |
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Utilities to lock and unlock databases. Currently only the message "coming soon!" |
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Activate the functions of locking and unlocking a database to avoid data entry when you are executing maintenance functions. |
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It seems that the "Global Change" utility is not working properly, that is, changing the specified string |
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Prepare a set of most common statistical reports used in libraries |
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services |
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Complete and populate Print module |
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Selective dissemination of information (current awareness) |
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Request for bibliography or copies with database of process control |
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Generic check URLs. Accept as input three parameters: dabase / server / url field |
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documentation |
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Update manuals |
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Update online helps to new version |
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administration |
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Deletion of ABCD system user is not working. When I want to delete the expiry date, only the ISO date can be deleted, but not the system date. |
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Operator’s Profile: When an operator enters the central module, his profile is restricted to the use of a determined set of formats of data entry. On the other hand, the system allows associating a record with a certain data format. The dynamic association between type of record and set of formats allowed for an operator is not working correctly. |
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The permissions currently are divided into two groups: (a) dependent on the databases and (b) on the system functions, where the functions are applied to all the databases. If we authorize permissions in a profile so that they can delete records in a database and this profile has more than one database, deleting is allowed for both. |
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CIRCULATION |
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Complete the central Loans module: reservations, online interaction for borrowers (place reserves, reservations, view their loans, change password) |
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Loans by hours are not calculated exactly |
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Recalls by mobile phone |
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At the option of using the inventory number of the bibliographic database, available in version 1.2beta 1 did not store the information defined for field 100 of trans database. Without this information the loan receipt is incomplete. |
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Review the functionality of items borrowed to be reserved |
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Borrower history sometimes does not show the title of the item, but in most cases it is shown. |
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Add a function that the system will total the fines paid. |
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De-linking a database from the circulation module: Add a utility to do this in the same way as the linking is done. |
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Prepare a set of most common print outs needed in libraries (overdues, claims, historical analysis, etc) |
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OPAC |
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On certain servers (Linux 64bits with kernel above 3.x) in spite of having installed the IA32 libraries, iAH in the search loses some variables in the response, and the headers and images do not appear, but it does the search correctly. |
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Maintain a list of searches, automatically, during the session, as in Winisis or ISIS for DOS. The users often ask for this. |
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SeCS Web |
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complete functions; debugging; update to PHP 5.3 |
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Acquisition |
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Major revision of some features like “suggestions”, and fixing bugs |
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