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Last updated 18 January 2005
Where we are and what's needed to complete the transition from
RLIN to RLIN21™ and be ready to use RLG databases after their
migration to a new infrastructure. The technical services transition
period is coming to an end as we complete migrating all databases
over the next several weeks.
Countdown (Rev. Jan. 18,
2005)
- February: RLG releases test version of RLIN21
client, with access to migrated name authority records, to RLIN
NACO contributors.
- February 25: End date for
all bibliographic record retrieval and input using RLIN
Terminal for Windows. NACO contributors only
continue to use RLIN Terminal for Windows software past this date
to create, update, and submit name authority records in the
LC/NACO Authority File (NAF).
- February 26-28: Database service outage for
changeover to migrated databases—during this period, only the RLG
Cultural Materials database, The AMICO Library™, and
RedLightGreen will be searchable.
- March 1: With their new user IDs, RLG
database users begin searching the newly migrated databases; all
users who enter records directly in the RLG Union Catalog and
SCIPIO begin working in the migrated databases with the RLIN21
client.
- Later in March: RLG releases RLIN21 client
for NACO contributors to create, update, and submit name authority
records.
What we
need from you
Completed steps
- January 10: A new version of the RLIN21 client for SCIPIO
cataloging was released for two weeks of testing by RLG's SCIPIO
Advisory Task Force.
- January 7, 2005: Information was posted for users exporting
records through Z39.50, about the 952 fields that identify every
record in a title cluster.
- September 29, 2004: The cataloging client was further enhanced
in response to users' suggestions.
- September 22: Users began filling in a Web form to
confirm/change the user IDs and passwords their institutions will
use after RLG database migration.
- August 13: A test database of sample migrated RLG Union
Catalog records was created for users to test their Z39.50
clients.
- August 2: New user ID guidelines were posted for current RLIN
users on how to determine the need for and format of access IDs
for the RLG Union Catalog post-migration.
- July 22: The new cataloging client received a set of
enhancements in response to user feedback.
- July 1: All users had converted from RLIN telnet to RLIN21 Web
interface searching, and the old access was turned off.
- June 21: A test file of sample, migrated RLG Union Catalog
records was created for record-exporting users to test their
loaders.
- June 2: Users begin creating and updating bibliographic
records in the current RLG Union Catalog through the new
Windows-based RLIN21 client. (Client roll-out events were held
around the country all year.)
- May 31: This was the last day to order
snapshot files prior to a temporary halt in snapshots production
until after full database migration is completed.
- April 16: Changes were made to current RLG
Union Catalog records retrieved by Z39.50 clients and Eureka MARC
export. The RLIN21 Web interface got a set of enhancements in
response to early users.
- April 7: MARC 21 equivalents for RLIN fields were issued on
the Web; these will be used in the RLG Union Catalog database
migration.
- March 15, 2004: Users began searching the RLG Union Catalog,
and the Name and Subject Authority files, through the new RLIN21
Web interface. (In June, the new interface was extended to the
English Short Title Catalogue, Hand Press Book, and SCIPIO: Art
and Rare Book Sales Catalogs databases.)
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