What are the ways to accomplish exact title searches with z39.50?
I'm looping through a list of MARC records trying to determine whether
or not we own multiple copies of an item. After reading MARC field
245, subfield a I am creating the following z39.50 query:
@attr 1=4 foo bar
You could start with the exact title search as expressed in the Bath
Profile: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/bath/tp-bath2.9-e.htm#a .
But you may well have to tinker to discover the combination that your
server will accept and interpret the way you want it to.
All the best,
Peter
Like so many library standards, z30.50 is a syntax and a set of rough
guidelines. You have no idea what's actually happening on the other end,
because it's not specified, and you just have to either find someone you can
ask at the target machine or reverse engineer it.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at
I think in order to accomplish this you'd have to send a completeness
or truncation attribute:
@attr 1=4 6=3 foo bar # search for 'foo bar' as the complete field
@attr 1=4 6=2 foo bar # search for 'foo bar' as the complete subfield
@attr 1=4 5=100 foo bar # do not truncate - although this is
