Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-09 Thread Birkin James Diana
Godmar, ... Is this code available under a license? ... Not yet. A third of me wishes I'd never seen Michael Doran's excellent code4lib2007 presentation and could just blindly release stuff open- source (for those not there, amongst great info, he cautioned against claiming to release stuff a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-08 Thread Ryan Eby
Birkin, Definitely welcome. I saw the JSON webservice noted on the Simplifying ILL page and wondered if you were releasing the code. Thanks for sharing. Ryan Eby On 5/8/07, Birkin James Diana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip It's likely not as extensible as David's terrific code, since mine use

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-08 Thread Birkin James Diana
On May 1, 2007 Godmar Back wrote: ..Are there any reusable, open source scripts out there that implements a REST interface that screenscrapes or otherwise efficiently accesses a III catalog? David and James have provided links, but no code. I would be grateful for anything I could reuse and don'

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-03 Thread Ryan Eby
I've used David's php code and it's quite nice. It parses the marc view based on the bib number and converts it to MarcXML but also includes the status information from the bottom of the marc view. Makes it rather easy to build the item display you want and gives you all the data you need, live. P

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-02 Thread Godmar Back
On 5/2/07, Rob Casson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it comes with the OPAC as far as I know. We don't have the XML > server. yeah, it comes with the stock innopac; the returned xml is the same as that from the (defunct) xml server, and there are xslts that can convert it to marcxml, mo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-02 Thread Rob Casson
E4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database? BTW, one other solution comes to mind, III supports an XML format request from the OPAC (it has to be configured in the wwwoptions to enable, but you *should* be able to request bib's/items via: /xrecord=b100200 /xrecord=i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-02 Thread Adam Brin
nt: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:29 PM > > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database? > > > > BTW, one other solution comes to mind, III supports an XML format > > request > > from the OPAC (it has to be configured in the ww

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-02 Thread Bin Zhang
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adam Brin > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:29 PM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database? > > BTW, one other solution comes to mind, II

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-02 Thread Adam Brin
BTW, one other solution comes to mind, III supports an XML format request from the OPAC (it has to be configured in the wwwoptions to enable, but you *should* be able to request bib's/items via: /xrecord=b100200 /xrecord=i102345 eg. http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/xrecord=b1005614 I believe it's III'

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-02 Thread Adam Brin
rthmore 610.526.5294 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walker, David Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:32 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database? Here is the class code for my screen scraper. Rather simple,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-02 Thread Walker, David
From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Godmar Back Sent: Tue 5/1/2007 3:32 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database? If I may follow up on an earlier discussion [ relevant parts are included below ] regarding how to extract holdings

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-05-01 Thread Godmar Back
If I may follow up on an earlier discussion [ relevant parts are included below ] regarding how to extract holdings information from III or other catalogs. I have one thing to offer and 1 thing to request. I'll start with the offering: MAJAX. MAJAX is a JavaScript library that screenscrapes III c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-03-04 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 3, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Ross Singer wrote: then use Ed Summers' Sruby (http://www.textualize.com/sruby -- although Ed's site seems to be down right now). Yeah, it's down--possibly for the count. Fortunately it's housed at rubyforge as well so you can get it by doing a: gem install sru

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-03-04 Thread Birkin James Diana
On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Walker, David wrote: http://walkertr.csusm.edu/scrape/test.htm Very cool; works on our III catalog! Nathan Mealy -- I also used the screenscrape method to get info we needed for a couple of ISBN-based projects, not knowing at the time about the yaz-z39.50-OPAC opti

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-03-03 Thread Ross Singer
Actually, since this is a Rails project, install yaz and Ruby/ZOOM (http://ruby-zoom.rubyforge.org/). An even /better/ idea (since Z39.50 is the road to madness) is to install: yaz, yaz++ and yazproxy, then use Ed Summers' Sruby (http://www.textualize.com/sruby -- although Ed's site seems to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-03-01 Thread Walker, David
--Dave --- David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Godmar Back Sent: Wed 2/28/2007 9:34 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-02-28 Thread Mark Jordan
Hi Nathan, The demo at http://kubrick.no-ip.info/opac/opac.php is searching against an III target, using the 'opac' record syntax to pull back item-level holdings info. I'd be happy to share the code -- in fact, I plan to package it up when I get a chance and post it on my site. The only outstand

Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-02-28 Thread Godmar Back
Use yaz. This will give you basic holdings information. Example: yaz-client Z> open addison.vt.edu:210/innopac Connecting...OK. Sent initrequest. Connection accepted by v2 target. ID : Z39.50-III Name : z39-innopac Version: 1 UserInformationfield: { OCTETSTRING(len=52) Innovative Inte

[CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?

2007-02-28 Thread Nathan Mealey
Simmons is a III-based library. I'm in the midst of developing an application that uses a subset of our records that I've exported via creating a list and then pushing it into a MySQL database. We did not purchase the XMLServer module during the time that it was available, and so I don't have th