Karen,
YAZ Proxy generally works great for this purpose. We use it all the time
with Voyager databases. But as others mentioned, you might have trouble
living with the III's Z39.50 server. We tried to use it from our portal,
but in the end we had to resort to screen scraping instead..
--Ere
Karen Coombs wrote:
There are some very useful things one can get back from III via Z39.50.
Terry Resse from OSU showed me that if you send a Z39.50 request for the
"opac" syntax you can actually get back holdings information and whether or
not something is checked out. I had no trouble playing around with this via
the Z39.50 piece of MARC edit and getting back the data I wanted.
Based on this info and reading about yaz-proxy, I've been hoping that by
implementing yaz-proxy that I might setup an SRW/U service for III. Has
anyone on this list considered this option or tried it out?
Karen
On 5/15/08 11:57 AM, "Cloutman, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is very clear to me, from trying to integrate into our III systems,
is that their ILS is desperately in need of being reworked into more of
an SOA model. The best that they can currently do for library developers
is sell us an RSS product, which I think probably falls short of what we
actually need. What we need is a well documented, functional,
standards-based web service that could be used to hook into other
applications. It seems to me that the best that many of us can do with
the III product in terms of automated integration is to grab data
through some sort of screen scraping.
The fact that a product like Encore works at all, to me indicates that
there must be some sort of programmatic hooks in the catalog that we as
customers could leverage for our own purposes, but I have not been able
to find any documentation of these.
Of course, empowering developers, or their customers in general, is not
in the III business model, so I don't think we can expect much from
them.
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David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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Eric Lease Morgan
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To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Life after Expect
On May 15, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
Just as the hot dog cookers and other one trick wonders in the kitchen
are of very limited use, special purpose tools that attempt to define
your problem and solution are not nearly useful as generic ones in an
ILS context. I am still hoping that vendors will recognize that true
interoperability is a feature that increases the value of the ILS more
than just about anything else.
Well said. The vendor who provides a suit of tools that can
interoperate with any number of other standards-based tools is as
vendor to establish close relationships with.
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Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
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University of Houston
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