{"id":277,"date":"2003-09-11T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T23:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/11\/koha-open-source-libraryopac-software\/"},"modified":"2003-09-11T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2003-09-11T23:48:25","slug":"koha-open-source-libraryopac-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/11\/koha-open-source-libraryopac-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Koha &#8211; open source library\/OPAC software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koha.org\/\">http:\/\/www.koha.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Koha is the first open source integrated library system&nbsp;&#8230; the Koha system is a full catalogue, OPAC, circulation and acquisitions system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an expert in OPAC systems, so I leave it to the librarians to judge how full-featured this software is,&nbsp;though on the surface it seems fairly mature.&nbsp;I&#8217;m posting this, though, as just another example of how wide the&nbsp;range of open source&nbsp;projects has become. It wasn&#8217;t that long ago that people (usually in an attempt to maginalize their&nbsp;effects as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/info.astrian.net\/jargon\/terms\/f\/FUD.html\">FUD campaign<\/a>) would characterize open source projects as focusing on only those types of programs of interest to the geeks who could build them. There&#8217;s probably always going to be a bit of that at play, but a quick glance at, for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/softwaremap\/trove_list.php?form_cat=1\">sourceforge projects by intended audience<\/a> shows just how broadly the phenomenom has spread. &#8211; SWL<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensector.org\/\">OpenSector.org<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.koha.org\/ &#8220;Koha is the first open source integrated library system&nbsp;&#8230; the Koha system is a full catalogue, OPAC, circulation and acquisitions system.&#8221; I&#8217;m not an expert in OPAC systems, so I leave it to the librarians to judge how full-featured this software is,&nbsp;though on the surface it seems fairly mature.&nbsp;I&#8217;m posting this, though, as just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/11\/koha-open-source-libraryopac-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Koha &#8211; open source library\/OPAC software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[210,301],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-library","tag-open_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}