Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-18 Thread Ranti Junus
Godmar, Does your library subscribe to Serials Solutions? If it does, I wonder if you could use the list from SerSols. ranti. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, at our library, there's an emerging need to process title lists from vendors for various

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-18 Thread Annette Bailey
Hey Ranti, We do subscribe to Serials Solutions, but the title lists Godmar is referring to are the title lists from the vendors that we get the content from not the knowledge base that we then update. Annette On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Godmar,

[CODE4LIB] FW: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Hopwood
October 2012 23:09 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned. As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various sources. We've been working with members

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
, Michael -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Owen Stephens Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing I'm working on the JISC KB+ project

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Of Owen Stephens Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned. As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various sources. We've been

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Of Owen Stephens Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned. As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various sources. We've

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Godmar Back
Thanks for everyone who replied to my question. From a brief examination, if I understand it correctly, KBART and ONIX create normative standards for how holdings data should be represented, which vendors (increasingly) follow. This leads to three follow-up questions. First, is there software

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
This leads to three follow-up questions. First, is there software to translate/normalize existing vendor lists from vendors that have not yet adopted either of these standards into these formats? I'm thinking of a collection of adapters or converters, perhaps. Each would likely constitute

[CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-16 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, at our library, there's an emerging need to process title lists from vendors for various purposes, such as checking that the titles purchased can be discovered via discovery system and/or OPAC. It appears that the formats in which those lists are provided are non-uniform, as is the process of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-16 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I think KBART is such an effort. As with most library standards groups, there may not be online documentation of their most recent efforts or successes, but: http://www.uksg.org/kbart http://www.uksg.org/kbart/s5/guidelines/data_format On 10/16/2012 2:16 PM, Godmar Back wrote: Hi, at our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-16 Thread Tom Pasley
You might also be interested in the work at http://www.kbplus.ac.uk . The site is up at the moment, but I can't reach it for some reason... they have a public export page which you might want to know about http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport Tom On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-16 Thread Owen Stephens
I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned. As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various sources. We've been working with members of the KBART steering group and have used KBART where possible, although we've been collecting data not covered by