Koha Community Newsletter: June 2023
Koha Community Newsletter: June 2023 
Volume 14, Issue 6
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Michael Kuhn
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Table of contents
Development
Current Koha versions
Read the respective release notes by clicking the revision number.
| Date | Revision | Notes |
| 28 June 2023 | Koha 23.05.01 stable |
6 enhancements 35 bugfixes |
| 26 June 2023 | Koha 22.11.07 oldstable |
5 enhancements 77 bugfixes |
| 28 June 2023 | Koha 22.05.14 | 27 bugfixes |
| 11 May 2023 | Koha 21.11.20 | 20 bugfixes |
The Debian packages are usually available within days after the release.
New Koha version 23.05
On 31 May 2023 Tomas Cohen Arazi announced the release of Koha 23.05. This major release includes 26 new features, 145 enhancements and 701 bugfixes.
- Roles for 23.05
- Release notes for Koha 23.05.00
- System requirements and recommendations Koha 23.05
- Download Koha
- Installation documentation
- Koha 23.05 database schema
- Koha 23.05 manual (en) – also see more documentation
Community
New Koha libraries
Greece
- Αναγνωστική Εταρεία Κερκύρας (Corfu Reading Society) in Corfu, via Dataly Tech
USA
- American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco (CA) via Bywater Solutions
- Lamar State College Orange in Orange (TX) via Bywater Solutions
- Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills (IL) via Bywater Solutions
- North Miami Beach Public Library in North Miami Beach (FL) via Bywater Solutions
Koha tips and tricks
- Anonymization and pseudonymization (koha-US)
- Bundles in Koha (Bywater Solutions)
- Can I upload a form to a patron account? (Bywater Solutions)
- Custom item search fields (PTFS Europe)
- Creating saved searches (Bywater Solutions)
- Enforcing two-factor authentication (Bywater Solutions)
- How are Koha search result facets built? (Bywater Solutions)
- How do I prevent certain items from renewing? (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha Community announces 23.05 release (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 22.11: Acquisitions updates (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 22.11: Cataloging tools moved into the cataloging module (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 22.11: Cataloging updates (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 22.11: Holds enhancements (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 22.11: New table settings options (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 22.11: SIP integration improvements (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 22.11: Clarify authority management (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 23.05 OPAC customization : frontend UI design (RAFLIMTS)
- Permission reports (koha-US)
- Restricting purchase suggestions by patron category (PTFS Europe)
- Who might find the Batch Patrons Permissions Modifier Plugin useful? (Bywater Solutions)
Support provider news
- Bywater Solutions’ partners sponsor development in Koha 23.05 release (Bywater Solutions)
- Monday Minutes: Live from ALA (Bywater Solutions)
Upcoming events
For all upcoming IRC meetings see Next IRC meetings or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.
Call for papers: Koha user meeting for German speakers
By Katrin Fischer
The next Koha user meeting for German-speaking Koha users will take place online on 5 December 2023. The call for papers is open and we are looking forward to your ideas and contributions to the program. Further information can be found on our new website: https://koha-dach.eu/6-koha-d-a-ch-anwendertreffen-05-12-2023/
Past events
For all past IRC meetings see the following links or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.
Koha and RDA – National Library of Greece
by Michalis Gerolimos
The National Library of Greece (NLG) organized a 2-day national meeting (22-23 May 2023), in the context of an Erasmus+ program, presenting the results of three 4-year long projects:
- The transition from UNIMARC to MARC21
- The implementation of RDA/RDF in a Wikibase instance
- The adoption of the new RDA
The NLG showcased the configuration of Koha to implement the RDA3R rules. Other speakers talked about the use of application profiles, the importance of common controlled vocabularies in Libraries, Archives and Museums, the differences between AACR2 and RDA3R, the evolution of authority control to identity management, and the role of persistent identifiers in cataloguing within a linked data environment.
Invited speakers from Italy as part of the Erasmus+ week, namely, Stefano Bargioni and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, demonstrated use cases for the exploitation of Wikidata in cataloguing. Finally, the NLG presented its efforts towards a shared entity management infrastructure based on the RDA/RDF ontology and implemented in a Wikibase instance.
Furthermore, Stefano and Camillo cooperated with the Cataloguing Department staff and the system librarians on finding duplicates, resolving conflations, and adding authority IDs to Wikidata (Property P3348). Wikidata SPARQL queries were written and discussed. New Koha functionalities were discussed and developed for the staff interface, such as:
- FCV – “Full cataloguing view in bibliographic or authority record” [1] was tested, translated, and installed in NLG’s Koha staff interface. It will allow cataloguers to quickly control all tags of a bibliographic or authority records before saving it.
- GeoLocker: GeoLocker is an under-development enhancement for tag 370 of authority records (Associated Place, MARC21). It will allow catalogers to enter the label of a place (in Greek or any other language), choose the correct place from an autosuggest drop-down menu and automatically add label, RWO and URI to the appropriate subfields. Sources available are GeoNames and Wikidata.
The fruitful 2-day meeting and the collaboration with Stefano and Camillo signify NLG’s commitment to further develop its cataloguing policy, to invest in the development of Koha to support RDA3R cataloguing, and ultimately, to share its expertise with the international library community.