That's a very interesting site. Of particular interest is the "Survey
on Vendor Support" http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/patthold-
vendorsurvey.html:
Of the 11 vendors surveyed, 10 support MFHD, and they use that
information to set up their issue predictions. But only 6 vendors use
the $y regularity pattern to "anticipate normalized irregulars" (like
the Economist or Library Journal combined/skipped issues).
And NONE of the vendors support sharing MFHD with other ILS systems.
Gotta love communication standards.
- David
On 16-Sep-2008, at 17:20 , Dan Scott wrote:
2008/9/16 David Fiander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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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
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David J. Fiander
Library Software Development
