Hello! On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:26:38 -0800 (PST) > From: Tanyaporn Sasisuwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Dspace-tech] How to implement an Interface to DSpace > > Now, I?m trying to interface DSpace with Horizon for my university. > Currently, our university use Horizon as main library system, > but now I have installed DSpace to allow them to collect electronic > copy of the document. However, the main objective is that we want > Horizon (using Z39.50) > to be able to also search DSpace database(which is not z39.50 > compliant). You could use IndexData's Zebra or SimpleServer: http://www.indexdata.dk/simpleserver/ http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/ the first means you would have to build a Perl gateway that searches the DSpace database one end (or even the Web interface!) and uses SimpleServer for the Z39.50 interface at the other. With Zebra you can index metadata records (either as XML or you could even convert them to MARC) exported (using the OAI-PMH) and then use the Zebra server as your Z39.50 interface for Horizon. I've done a similar thing with an Oracle database and it works fine and is speedy. Of course, the data then is as upto date as the export so you'd need to schedule a export every day or something to keep the Z39.50 indexes upto date. The Cheshire3 Information Retrieval Framework http://cheshire3.sourceforge.net/ could be useful too. -- Pete Cliff eLearning Software Developer, University of Bath. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
