2008/9/16 David Fiander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip>
> I have started to think that serials issuance patterns are something > that should be shared: it's not like I get different issues of the > Economist or Lancet than you do, so why should we duplicate the effort > of describing the pattern? > > That is, of course, a completely different project from > exporting/importing holdings data and making predictions about when > the next issue should arrive. You are not alone; CONSER's "Public Pattern Initiative" (http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/patthold.html) was an effort to do exactly this. I'm not sure whether the project is still alive, though. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
