Re: [CODE4LIB] exploiting z39.50
On 5/8/09, Xiaoming Liu xiaoming@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I wonder how xID handles superceded OCLCnums, if it'll still succesfully find the right matches for you? This is documented in http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/api.htm#deleted Worldcat uses OCLC Control Number Cross-Reference to track deleted OCLC numbers. When an OCLC number is deleted, it's still search-able from this service. In the response, we use presentOclcnum to specify present OCLC number. For example 2416076 was merged into 24991049, a request of the deleted number 2416076 will return: rsp xmlns=http://worldcat.org/xid/xoclcnum/; stat=ok oclcnum lccn=34025476 presentOclcnum=249910492416076/oclcnum /rsp The presentOclcnum field is omitted when an OCLC number is active, so request to current OCLC number 24991049 returns: rsp xmlns=http://worldcat.org/xid/xoclcnum/; stat=ok oclcnum lccn=34025476 24991049/oclcnum /rsp Xiaoming Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: From: Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu 1. What MARC field/subfield might I put this string? 2. How would I go about getting the string indexed? 3. How might I go about querying the server for records with this string? I can at least talk about the third question. There was work on a marc attribute set, though not completed. If you look at the oid register at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/oids.html you'll see that the latest work on it (second draft) was in 2000, http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/MARC_attribute_set_2.doc. So if someone actually wanted to put it to use it would have to be completed. For SRU there is a complete marc context set, http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/resources/marc-context-set.html. --Ray
Re: [CODE4LIB] exploiting z39.50
From: Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu 1. What MARC field/subfield might I put this string? 2. How would I go about getting the string indexed? 3. How might I go about querying the server for records with this string? I can at least talk about the third question. There was work on a marc attribute set, though not completed. If you look at the oid register at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/oids.html you'll see that the latest work on it (second draft) was in 2000, http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/MARC_attribute_set_2.doc. So if someone actually wanted to put it to use it would have to be completed. For SRU there is a complete marc context set, http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/resources/marc-context-set.html. --Ray
Re: [CODE4LIB] exploiting z39.50
I wonder how xID handles superceded OCLCnums, if it'll still succesfully find the right matches for you? Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: From: Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu 1. What MARC field/subfield might I put this string? 2. How would I go about getting the string indexed? 3. How might I go about querying the server for records with this string? I can at least talk about the third question. There was work on a marc attribute set, though not completed. If you look at the oid register at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/oids.html you'll see that the latest work on it (second draft) was in 2000, http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/MARC_attribute_set_2.doc. So if someone actually wanted to put it to use it would have to be completed. For SRU there is a complete marc context set, http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/resources/marc-context-set.html. --Ray
Re: [CODE4LIB] exploiting z39.50
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I wonder how xID handles superceded OCLCnums, if it'll still succesfully find the right matches for you? This is documented in http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/api.htm#deleted Worldcat uses OCLC Control Number Cross-Reference to track deleted OCLC numbers. When an OCLC number is deleted, it's still search-able from this service. In the response, we use presentOclcnum to specify present OCLC number. For example 2416076 was merged into 24991049, a request of the deleted number 2416076 will return: rsp xmlns=http://worldcat.org/xid/xoclcnum/; stat=ok oclcnum lccn=34025476 presentOclcnum=249910492416076/oclcnum /rsp The presentOclcnum field is omitted when an OCLC number is active, so request to current OCLC number 24991049 returns: rsp xmlns=http://worldcat.org/xid/xoclcnum/; stat=ok oclcnum lccn=34025476 24991049/oclcnum /rsp Xiaoming Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: From: Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu 1. What MARC field/subfield might I put this string? 2. How would I go about getting the string indexed? 3. How might I go about querying the server for records with this string? I can at least talk about the third question. There was work on a marc attribute set, though not completed. If you look at the oid register at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/oids.html you'll see that the latest work on it (second draft) was in 2000, http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/z3950/MARC_attribute_set_2.doc. So if someone actually wanted to put it to use it would have to be completed. For SRU there is a complete marc context set, http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/resources/marc-context-set.html. --Ray
