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Chami

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Chalmers Library middleware for transferring bibliographic data from Swedish Union Catalog LIBRIS to library service platform FOLIO.

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What is Chami?

Chami fetches bibliographic records from LIBRIS, transforms them from MARC-XML into Inventory json objects, and posts (or puts) them to FOLIO as Inventory instances. In its current version, Chami uses OAI-PMH for fetching individual records on demand, and LIBRIS' export API to fetch batches of records for specific time intervals.

How is Chami used at Chalmers?

Adding or updating new records on demand

With one click, cataloguers can add a new instance from LIBRIS to FOLIO. When the cataloguer is on the page of an instance record in LIBRIS and clicks the Chami bookmarklet, Chami sends a request to LIBRIS' OAI-PMH server for the record at hand.

The record is transformed and added to FOLIO (as a new record, or updating an existing one), and the cataloguer is automatically redirected from LIBRIS the new/updated instance in FOLIO Inventory.

Scheduled fetching of new/updated records

In order to keep Inventory up to date with changes to bibliographic instances in LIBRIS, whether made by Chalmers or by any other library in the LIBRIS community, Chami regularly fetches all updates made to LIBRIS isntances with Chalmers holdings. For this, Chami makes a request to the LIBRIS MARC21 export API.

How data mapping is done in Chami

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How to run Chami

Install NodeJS

Chami is built with NodeJS, so first Install NodeJS using your favourite package manager:
choco install nodejsChoclatey (Windows)
brew install node Homebrew (MacOS)
Linux users will know what to use.

An alternative is the official installers as well.

Clone this repo

Clone it into your computer. Open up a terminal and get to the root catalog

Install required packages

run npm install

Configuration

To run chami locally create a config.json or make a copy of config.json.example file in the root folder of the project and insert your information. You need to specify the urls and authentication information to your Folio and Elastic server. serverurl variable is used by the bookmarklet.

run the tests

run npm test

run development server

run npm run dev

run server

run npm start

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