Here is the roadmap for the 2.2 version.

Team

(PP) Paul POULAIN ⇒ 2.2 release manager.
(JB) Jean BARON ⇒ 2.2 developer hired by ensmp.
Russel Garlick ⇒ QA tester / bug manager
Stephen & Nick ⇒ doc manager

Features

Common

STATUS	feature	who	note
everyone	HTML improvements in librarian interface	PP	more use of CSS
everyone	code cleaning	PP
DONE for code, 10% DONE for help files	Online help in Koha	PP for code other volunteers for help files
DONE	LDAP authentification	PP	(code from Esiee School) The LDAP authentification will also create borrower entries in the borrower table, to enable reserves & issues

Librarian interface

cataloguing

STATUS	feature	who	note
DONE	MARC framework to have one for monographies, one for serials…	ENSMP
DONE	Serial cataloguing	ENSMP-JB
DONE	Serial management (subscriptions…)	ENSMP-JB
DONE	MARC management of authorities/thesaurus	ENSMP	See MarcAuthorities. To be documented.
	biblio copy/paste in MARC editor	PP for EMN
	global modifs in biblio DB (like “change all authors Xxxxx to author Xxxxy”)	PP for EMN
DONE	selectable Library of Congress, Dewey Call Number, or other catagorization	PP	a field called itemcallnumber has been created in items table. It can be filled by a default value that can be dewey, LoC, or any other biblio field. User can modify it
PP	index 1 letter words in marc_word	PP	requested by NPL. add to framework management subfield constaints “do not index this field”. change marc_word structure
NPL	Index of index for marc search	a marc_words table will contains reference to every biblio that contain a word, all bibids in a TEXT sql-field. with such a table, searches on common words require only reading 1 sql-row instead of 1 for each biblio containing the word

Catalogue search

STATUS	feature	who	note
DONE	Ordering search	PP
DONE	rewritting search	PP	Already in CVS. still needs some cleaning & testing. last change to do : limit results to 200 : search can be really long when returning many results. tested by Nelsonville
DONE	Related fields	P	Means “title” search on title, subtitle, and any title-related MARC field. Related fields are defined by the library itself
	z3950 server	Nelsonville	needs to be tested with an UNIMARC DB

Acquisition module

DONE		DB modifs		PP		The acquisition module has a BD structure error : there is no table for “basket header”. So, there are some race conditions in DB management that can be harmful if 2+ librarians create a basket at the same time. A new table aqbasket will be created, and basket number / order number will be afected AFTER the user fills the form.
DONE		management of borrower suggestions		PP

Circulation module

STATUS	feature	who	note
DONE	code cleaning & reordering	PP	Circulation tests are all located in 1 single sub in the code. A library that plans to write specific tests can modify more easily the code
DONE	Improving circulation rules		loan length & qty can be set for borrower type / item type / branch

Stats/report

STATUS		feature		who		note
affected to PP		lot of common stats for the library		PP for EMN		StatsModuleQuestion : some questions to solve…

OPAC

STATUS	feature	who	note
??	search on z3950 servers	not affected	probably delayed after 2.2
DONE	biblio basket	doXulting
DONE	virtual shelves	PP	to be tested deeply
DONE	adding suggestions in OPAC	PP, for EMN	the “book life” will follow : suggestion ⇒ acquisition ⇒ cataloguing ⇒ circulation Functionnalities in SuggestionFeatures
DONE	borrower can select its language	PP, for EMN

OTHER REQUESTS

reserves improvements
inclusion of NCIP interface
inclusion of RSS module

THINGS THAT NEED ANSWERS

Is there a serials equivalent of MARC? It'd be much easier to have a standard to follow, rather than have to potentially come up with something ourselves (maybe).

It seems that the MARC21 format handles properly the serials catalogation. A little seach on Google for “MARC21 serials” will give some material. For instance this [http://www.slainte.org.uk/cigs/toolkit/marc21/nlsnicklen.pdf document]. Please delete if this is completely wrong!

Some Answers

For serials support it is very important that MARC21 Holdings Standard [http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html] is supported in the system.
The tag 853-855 of MARC21 Holdings Standard [http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html] will take care of generating expected issues.
The Textual Holdings Statement Fields (866-868) of MARC21 Holdings Standard [http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdtext.html] deal with storing information about the each issue of a serial item.