I've always been a fan of ONIX for SOH, although never had the chance to
use it -- but the spec is written nicely, based on my experience with
this stuff, it actually accomplishes the goal of machine-readable
statement of serial holdings (theoretically useful for print or online
holdings) well.
KBART, I have some concerns about, when it comes to holdings. Is there a
place to send feedback to KBART? Just on a quick skim of the parts of
interest to me, I am filled with alarm at how much missing the point
this is: " we recommend that the ISO 8601 date syntax should be
used... For simplicity, '365D' will always be equivalent to one year,
and '30D' will always be equivalent to one month, even in leap years and
months that do not have 30 days."
Totally missing the point of ISO 8601 to allow/encourage this when 1Y
and 1M are available -- dealing with calendar dates is harder than one
might naively think, and by trying to 'improve' on ISO 8601 like this,
you just create a mess of ambiguous and difficult to deal with data.
On 10/17/2012 5:11 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:
Are there any examples of data in this format in the wild we can look at?
Also given KBART and ONIX for Serials Online Holdings have NISO involvement, is
there any view on how these two activities complement each other?
Thanks,
Owen
Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
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Email: o...@ostephens.com
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On 17 Oct 2012, at 09:47, Michael Hopwood <mich...@editeur.org> wrote:
Hi Godmar,
There is also ONIX for Serials Online Holdings
(http://www.editeur.org/120/ONIX-SOH/). I'm copying in Tim Devenport who might
say more.
Best wishes,
Michael
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Owen
Stephens
Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing
I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned.
As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various
sources. We've been working with members of the KBART steering group and have
used KBART where possible, although we've been collecting data not covered by
KBART.
All the data we have at this level is published under a CC0 licence at
http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport - including a csv that uses the
KBART data elements. The focus so far has been on packages negotiated by JISC
in the UK - although in many cases the title lists may be the same as are made
available in other markets. We also include what we call 'Master lists' which
are an attempt to capture the complete list of titles and coverage offered by a
content provider. We'd very much welcome any feedback on these exports, and of
course be interested to know if anyone makes use of them.
So far a lot of the work on collating/coverting/standardising the data has been
done by hand - which is clearly not ideal. In the next phase of the project the
KB+ project is going to work with the GoKB project http://gokb.org - as part of
this collaboration we are currently working on ways of streamlining the data
processing from publisher files or other sources, to standardised data. While
we are still working on how this is going to be implemented, we are currently
investigating the possibility of using Google/Open Refine to capture and re-run
sets of rules across data sets from specific sources. We should be making
progress on this in the next couple of months.
Hope that's helpful
Owen
Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936
On 16 Oct 2012, at 20:23, Tom Pasley <tom.pas...@gmail.com> wrote:
You might also be interested in the work at http://www.kbplus.ac.uk .
The site is up at the moment, but I can't reach it for some reason...
they have a public export page which you might want to know about
http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport
Tom
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
I think KBART is such an effort. As with most library standards
groups, there may not be online documentation of their most recent
efforts or successes, but: http://www.uksg.org/kbart
http://www.uksg.org/kbart/s5/**guidelines/data_format<http://www.uksg
.org/kbart/s5/guidelines/data_format>
On 10/16/2012 2:16 PM, Godmar Back wrote:
Hi,
at our library, there's an emerging need to process title lists from
vendors for various purposes, such as checking that the titles
purchased can be discovered via discovery system and/or OPAC. It
appears that the formats in which those lists are provided are
non-uniform, as is the process of obtaining them.
For example, one vendor - let's call them "Expedition Scrolls" -
provides title lists for download to Excel, but which upon closer
inspection turn out to be HTML tables. They are encoded using an odd
mixture of CP1250 and HTML entities. Other vendors use entirely different
formats.
My question is whether there are efforts, software, or anything
related to streamlining the acquisition and processing of vendor
title lists in software systems that aid in the collection
development and maintenance process. Any pointers would be appreciated.
- Godmar
