Hi Dan - fancy meeting you here :-) (I've poked you with a number of Evergreen questions in the past, wearing another of my too-many hats)
Thanks very much for your reply; that looks like what I need to do... And has the virtue of simplicity :-) -David > For your purposes, I think it would be practical (and relatively > easily possible) to set up a proxy SRU server that would translate > incoming SRU requests into OpenLibrary API searches (for the DAISY > books, subject_facet=Accessible book would appear to be the limiter) > and then translate the returned results into basic title / author / > publication info / 856 pointer to the DAISY file in MARCXML (or other > formats, if . Then you can drop Simple2ZOOM > (http://search.cpan.org/~MIRK/Net-Z3950-Simple2ZOOM/) on top of the > SRU server to provide Z39.50 support so that it would work within your > federated search system. > > The SRU + Simple2ZOOM approach is how we offer Z39.50 access to > Evergreen, and it offers a nicely decoupled approach to providing > Z39.50 access for needs like yours where the goal is not necessarily > to get the richest MARC representation in existence back, but just > enough to do the job of confirming that the result matches the > request. The SRU piece is a bonus because it's a heck of a lot simpler > to develop and debug for mere mortals :) There's about 500 lines of > code starting at > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/Ope nILS/WWW/SuperCat.pm#L1479 > that the Evergreen piece is based on, but a large chunk of that is > configuration; it leans on the SRU Perl module > (http://search.cpan.org/dist/SRU/) to do the heavy lifting, and I'm > sure an implementation built that simply accesses the OpenLibrary API > could be a lot cleaner than what we currently have in Evergreen. -- David A. Christensen Phone: (204) 726-6870 Technnology Consultant Toll-free MB: 1-888-226-8014 Manitoba Public Library Services FAX: (204) 726-6868 http://library.gov.mb.ca Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
