Dear list,

using BD 1.3.12 on Mac OS X 10.5.1 (yeah, at least on my office mac, I  
have finally left 10.3.9 panther world!), I have experienced a problem  
adding a search group for my local university library:
aleph.univie.ac.at:9992, database UBW01, USMARC, utf-8 encoding

I have been looking in the list archive and only found Simon’s  
requests for support of Basel and Zürich ULib catalogues which did not  
seem really useful for this case.

Search seems to work so far, but the catalogue data seems to be parsed  
in a non-human-readable way.

A search for AC05915622 (this is some kind of unique identifier for  
one title in the Austrian union catalogue database), actually first I  
searched for "au=darwin and ti=origin" brings up exactly 1 match – and  
all available data are imported to the Annote field as follows:

00757nM2.01000325   45  
h001001400000005001700014026001800031030001600049036000700065037000800072050001700080051001000097070000800107076000700115100003100122331003000153359005200183403001500235410001800250412001600268425000900284433001500293451003100308453001500339454002300354455001000377456000800387540001800395540001800413
 
$$aAC0591562220070416090200.0  aOBVAC05915622  z|1dcr|||||17a aGBb  
aeng  a|a|||||||||||  s||||||  aUBWs a27  aDarwin, Charles9118523813   
a<<The>> origin of species  aCharles Darwin. Introd. by L. Harrison  
Matthews  aLast repr.  aLondon [u.a.]  aDent [u.a.]a a1972  aXX, 488  
S.  aEveryman's library ; [811]r aAC00131892c aEveryman's library   
a[811]  a811a a0-460-00811-0a a0-460-01811-6

Then, I tried the same search in the Austrian Union catalogue (which  
is meteor.bibvb.ac.at:9991, database ACC01EN, using USMARC and  
iso-8859-1 encoding, which lead to a similar result, namely

00809nM2.01000337---45- 
h001001400000005001700014026001800031030001600049036000700065037000800072050001700080051001000097070000800107076000700115100003100122331003000153359005200183403001500235410001800250412001600268425000900284433001500293451003100308453001500339454002300354455001000377456000800387540001800395540001800413088004000431
 
$$aAC0591562220070416090100.0  aOBVAC05915622  z|1dcr|||||17a aGBb  
aeng  a|a|||||||||||  s||||||  aUBWs a27  aDarwin, Charles9118523813   
a<<The>> origin of species  aCharles Darwin. Introd. by L. Harrison  
Matthews  aLast repr.  aLondon [u.a.]  aDent [u.a.]a a1972  aXX, 488  
S.  aEveryman's library ; [811]r aAC00131892c aEveryman's library   
a[811]  a811a a0-460-00811-0a a0-460-01811-6  aA074bMcZ-II=Everyman's  
L./811e28

I’m a bit lost with this… Z39.50 access was one of the major causes  
for me to go from panther to leopard, and now it’s not working  
properly (mumblemumble) –

Any comments on how to improve this? Both catalogues are quite  
important for me, but to enlarge the focus it would rather be better  
to start with the union catalogue I guess…
What are my next steps? File a feature request? Find out something  
about the actual syntax that ACC01EN uses (How?)?

It might not seem very unusual in such a case, but then I have once  
again to say that BD is one of the most useful apps and I am thankful  
that it exists already, thanks for a wonderful app.

Best,
Stephan


p.s.: Endnote connection files (both not working with EN11 which I  
happen to have a campus license for but still don’t want to use) for  
both catalogues are available here:
http://www.univie.ac.at/bibliothekssystem/opac-pdfs/UBW.enz
http://opac.obvsg.at/opac_help/OBV.enz


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