KohaCon 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon from May 21-25 with over 230 registered users from around the world. The conference included a cultural day and 3-day hackfest after 3 days of presentations on topics like EDI standards in the US, the SubjectsPlus discovery tool, linked data, data-driven decision making, and the Koha ILL module. Upcoming EDS and citation plugins were demonstrated. Talks also covered the Koha manual, Coral ERM integration, Elasticsearch indexing, and customizations at BULAC library. KohaCon 2019 will be held in Dublin, Ireland from May 20-26, 2019.

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