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Through the grapevine I learned of the following announcement regarding Koha and EBSCO:

  Rome --February 11, 2015. Koha is an ILS created by librarians
  for librarians. EBSCO Information Services is a family-owned
  company dedicated to solutions that bring real improvements to
  libraries. Together, the two are working to provide a viable
  web-based, open source ILS for libraries of all types. Koha
  libraries reached out to EBSCO for support of some important
  projects, and EBSCO agreed to partner to accomplish the following
  for Koha:

    * Strategic upgrade of of Koha's core full-text search engine
      technology to ElasticSearch; ensuring long-term viability

    * Increased functionality and accuracy of facets

    * Development of a browse function (author, title, subject,
      call number)

    * MARC to RDF crosswalk enhancing capability of linking to
      online data repositories (linked data)

    * Greater flexibility in ingesting metadata schemes beyond MARC21

    * Improved speed

    * Enhanced patron functionality API access

  The financial support from EBSCO will be provided via the Koha
  Gruppo Italiano founded by the American Academy in Rome, American
  University of Rome, and the Pontificia Università della Santa
  Croce which will be assisted in this development and integration
  by key Koha contributors ByWater Solutions, Catalyst IT, and
  Cineca. In keeping with open source tradition, these enhancements
  to Koha are truly open source and will be available for others to
  use, modify, and re-distribute.

  http://librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=20347

Last year I had the wonderful opportunity of working with the Italian-based Koha community, and I respect their forethought and insight. Kudos. [1]

[1] Koha Italy - https://www.facebook.com/KohaGruppoItaliano

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Eric Lease Morgan