Sorry Jonathan - meant to say thanks - and that your blog posts were already my 'required reading' for doing anything with ils-di stuff!
Owen On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > I believe you are correct. The ils-di stuff is just kind of a framework > starting point, not (yet) a complete end-to-end standards-constrained > solution. > > I believe you will find my thoughts and experiences on this issue helpful. > My own circumstances did not involve collection-level anything, but I still > ended up using an unholy mish-hash of several abused metadata formats to > express what I needed. > > http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/dlf-ils-di-dlfexpanded-service-for-horizon/ > > > http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/exposing-holdings-in-dlf-ils-di-standard-format-web-service/ > > > > > Owen Stephens wrote: > >> I'm working with the University of Oxford to look at integrating some >> library services into their VLE/Learning Management System (Sakai). One of >> the services is something that will give availability for items on a reading >> list in the VLE (the Sakai 'Citation Helper'), and I'm looking at the >> DLF-ILS GetAvailability specification to achieve this. >> >> For physical items, the availability information I was hoping to use is >> expressed at the level of a physical collection. For example, if several >> college libraries within the University I have aggregated information that >> tells me the availability of the item in each of the college libraries. >> However, I don't have item level information. >> I can see how I can use simpleavailability to say over the entire >> institution whether (e.g.) a book is available or not. However, I'm not >> clear I can express this in a more granular way (say availability on a >> library by library basis) except by going to item level. Also although it >> seems you can express multiple locations in simpleavailability, and multiple >> availabilitymsg, there is no way I can see to link these, so although I >> could list each location OK, I can't attach an availabilitymsg to a specific >> location (unless I only express one location). >> Am I missing something, or is my interpretation correct? >> Any other suggestions? >> Thanks, >> Owen >> PS also looked at DAIA which I like, but this (as far as I can tell) only >> allows availabitlity to be specified at the level of items >> >> >> Owen Stephens >> Owen Stephens Consulting >> Web: http://www.ostephens.com >> Email: o...@ostephens.com >> Telephone: 0121 288 6936 >> >> >> > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com