Jonathan Field provided a brief overview of his experience at KohaCon18

1. Review of KohaCon 2018
Jonathan Field
Managing Director, PTFS Europe

2. Location
▪ Portland, Oregon, USA
▪ 230 registered users
▪ Hosted by Bywater Solutions
▪ Representatives from Asia, Africa,
North America, South America,
Europe, and Australia
▪ 3 days of conference, cultural day
and then 3 day hackfest
▪ Broad range of topics

3. Featured talks ...
▪ EDI (in the USA) -
▪ US Vendors expect data in 975 (or other 9xx) field
▪ Use MarcItemFieldToOrder sys pref
▪ Info for vendor goes in 9xx (like GIR segment)
▪ Have to manually load basic bib records
▪ Demo of SubjectsPlus -
▪ Alternative to LibGuides
▪ University of Miami (Koha OPAC connector and RSS Feeds)
▪ API (XML or JSON)

4. Featured talks ...
▪ Paul Poulin working on Linked Data against wikidata.org
▪ Data driven decision making (Spencer Smith, McKinney Public
Library)
▪ How to edit and contribute to Koha manual
▪ Coral ERM
▪ Particularly the upcoming integration work for Koha
▪ Brilliant presentation on ILL module in Koha 😉
▪ Koha in Sweden
▪ Local backend for ILL

6. Featured talks ...
▪ Introduction to Koha plugin system and ...
▪ EDS Plugin for Koha
▪ NEW -
▪ Autocomplete (new & trending terms), Autosuggest, Autocorrect
▪ Quick view for attached images
▪ App manager for further customisation
▪ UPCOMING -
▪ Download in RIS
▪ Show formatted citations
▪ hyperlinked database names

8. Featured talks ...
▪ ElasticSearch
▪ BULAC (Bit like SOAS, lots of scripts) -
▪ 18.05 custom, 1m titles
▪ ES indexing very fast - 18hr zebra, 8hr ES (1m titles)
▪ Easy installation & Configuration (allegedly!)
▪ Lighter than zebra (indexes - 17GB ES vs 54GB zebra)
▪ “Naturally more relevant than zebra”
▪ What remains
▪ Tool to track index problems
▪ Case mapping (UNIMARC issue)
▪ Apostrophe issues!!!!
▪ Full config in Staff UI
▪ Weighting inside index to boost MARC tags

10. KohaCon 2019
▪ Dublin, Ireland
▪ Dublin Business School
▪ Hosted by Interleaf Technology and PTFS Europe
▪ 20th - 26th May 2019
▪ No registration fee
▪ #kohacon19

12. Review of KohaCon 2018
Jonathan Field
Managing Director, PTFS Europe