I've been looking at one aspect of this. We can get a textual holdings statement (866) out of our system. It looks like it would be fairly simple to just dump this data in the table serials.record_entry with some modification to be compliant with marc xml, etc. I know this doesn't deal with the prediction pattern but if somehow manage to get the prediction pattern built from the date of migration, will it matter that the holdings statement wasn't build from a prediction pattern. The following are some examples of the MFHD data we have been able to extract. Our system largely seems to just be providing 866.
=245 00$aBlack enterprise. =866 \\$81$av.29:no.8- 1999:Mar- =245 00$aAmerican libraries. =866 \\$81$av.33- 2002- [Microfilm=v.15-v.32 1984-2001] Also, each file represents the holdings of one library. It looks like we have to extract serial holdings from libraries separately. ____________________________ Tim Spindler Manager of Library Applications tspind...@cwmars.org 508-755-3323 x20 C/W MARS, Inc. http://www.cwmars.org
