Liblime
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LibLime is a commercial entity providing implementation and development services around the open source
Integrated library system
Koha
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LibLime was founded in 2005, as part of Metavore Inc. and purchased by Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) in 2010.
Koha is generally considered to be the earliest open source ILS still in production, and LibLime and Ferraro soon became involved in further developing it - with Ferraro elected as the official Koha Project Release Manager
for version 3.0.0.
Koha 3.0.0 was released in August 2008 three years after the release of version 2.2.0 (Jan 6 2005).
In 2006, LibLime acquired the assets of Skemotah Solutions, another US-based Koha support company, and in March 2007, LibLime acquired the Koha division of Katipo Communications Ltd - the original developers of Koha. Assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts with libraries that contracted with Katipo, and the koha.org domain.
In July 2008, LibLime acquired select assets of partner CARE Affiliates, Inc. Assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts for OpenTranslators and Masterkey, as well as copyrights and trademarks related to OpenTranslators.
In January 2009, the company launched ‡biblios.net
, a free cataloging service..
In 2009 a dispute arose between LibLime and other members of the Koha community. The dispute centred on LibLime's apparent reluctance to be inclusive with the content of the http://koha.org/ sites and the non-contribution of software patches back to the community. A number of participants declared that they believed that LibLime had forked
the software. A separate web presence, source code repository and community was established at http://www.koha-community.org/ .
The dispute deepened in November 2011 when it was reported that LibLime had applied to New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development for a trademark of the name 'Koha'. The Horowhenua Library Trust, who originally had Koha developed, has objected to LibLime's proposal, saying that the Trust had created something really good, and given it away to the world, and that now LibLime wants to take it.
In March 2010, LibLime was purchased by PTFS.
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LibLime's historical contributions to the project included handling release management and quality assurance. Through the integrated Zebra software (from Index Data, a Danish company), Koha provides advanced search options: full support for Boolean and hierarchically-nested queries; searching by language, year, and library-defined types; sub-type limits based on audience, content, and format which utilize coded values in the MARC
record. Also available are re-sort and Amazon-style 'refine by' options. Additionally, users can sort their results by popularity, author, title, date published; narrow search results by branch, subject, or series title; and even limit to currently available items. LibLime developed the integration between Zebra and Koha.
Other major contributions of LibLime to Koha included:
The project has a very active following with dozens of college and universities participating.
Open-source software
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Integrated library system
Integrated library system
An integrated library system , also known as a library management system ,is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed....
Koha
Koha (software)
Koha is an open source Integrated Library System , used world-wide by public, school and special libraries. The name koha comes from a Māori term for a gift or donation .- Features :...
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LibLime was founded in 2005, as part of Metavore Inc. and purchased by Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) in 2010.
History
LibLime was founded in 2005 by Joshua Ferraro who had helped to spearhead the project of migrating the [Athens County Public Libraries] in Ohio to OpenSource Koha in his role as systems administrator.Koha is generally considered to be the earliest open source ILS still in production, and LibLime and Ferraro soon became involved in further developing it - with Ferraro elected as the official Koha Project Release Manager
Release management
The release management process is a relatively new but rapidly growing discipline within software engineering of managing software releases....
for version 3.0.0.
Koha 3.0.0 was released in August 2008 three years after the release of version 2.2.0 (Jan 6 2005).
In 2006, LibLime acquired the assets of Skemotah Solutions, another US-based Koha support company, and in March 2007, LibLime acquired the Koha division of Katipo Communications Ltd - the original developers of Koha. Assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts with libraries that contracted with Katipo, and the koha.org domain.
In July 2008, LibLime acquired select assets of partner CARE Affiliates, Inc. Assets involved in the acquisition included existing support contracts for OpenTranslators and Masterkey, as well as copyrights and trademarks related to OpenTranslators.
In January 2009, the company launched ‡biblios.net
‡biblios.net
‡biblios.net is a free browser-based cataloging service with a data store containing over thirty-million records. Records are licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License, making the service the world's largest repository of freely-licensed library records...
, a free cataloging service..
In 2009 a dispute arose between LibLime and other members of the Koha community. The dispute centred on LibLime's apparent reluctance to be inclusive with the content of the http://koha.org/ sites and the non-contribution of software patches back to the community. A number of participants declared that they believed that LibLime had forked
Fork (software development)
In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a legal copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software...
the software. A separate web presence, source code repository and community was established at http://www.koha-community.org/ .
The dispute deepened in November 2011 when it was reported that LibLime had applied to New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development for a trademark of the name 'Koha'. The Horowhenua Library Trust, who originally had Koha developed, has objected to LibLime's proposal, saying that the Trust had created something really good, and given it away to the world, and that now LibLime wants to take it.
In March 2010, LibLime was purchased by PTFS.
Koha open-source integrated library system
Koha is a full-featured open-source integrated library system licensed under the GNU General Public LicenseGNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
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LibLime's historical contributions to the project included handling release management and quality assurance. Through the integrated Zebra software (from Index Data, a Danish company), Koha provides advanced search options: full support for Boolean and hierarchically-nested queries; searching by language, year, and library-defined types; sub-type limits based on audience, content, and format which utilize coded values in the MARC
MARC standards
MARC, MAchine-Readable Cataloging, is a data format and set of related standards used by libraries to encode and share information about books and other material they collect...
record. Also available are re-sort and Amazon-style 'refine by' options. Additionally, users can sort their results by popularity, author, title, date published; narrow search results by branch, subject, or series title; and even limit to currently available items. LibLime developed the integration between Zebra and Koha.
Other major contributions of LibLime to Koha included:
- extensive documentation for the project on kohadocs.org
- Koha's Amazon.com module
- Koha's original Z39.50 Server
- MARC21 Authorities support in Koha
- implemented proper handling of MARC8 encoded data
‡biblios.net
‡biblios.net is a free cataloguing service and the world's largest database of freely-licensed library records.Koha with Class
Building on the success of a pilot program at Texas Woman's University in 2006, LibLime's Koha with Class http://liblime.com/projects/koha-with-class initiative provides library school classrooms with hosted installations of Koha, free of charge.The project has a very active following with dozens of college and universities participating.