Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-09 Thread Stefano Bargioni
You refer to Z39.50, maybe... On 07/nov/2012, at 20.33, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > In all fairness, SRU also is something I'd hope would fade out as it is > based on an information retrieval model developed that saw its heydey > decades ago... > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-08 Thread Ross Singer
On Nov 7, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > In all fairness, SRU also is something I'd hope would fade out as it is > based on an information retrieval model developed that saw its heydey > decades ago... Do you know of a better search/retrieve standard? -Ross. > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 a

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-07 Thread Kyle Banerjee
In all fairness, SRU also is something I'd hope would fade out as it is based on an information retrieval model developed that saw its heydey decades ago... On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Owen, > > I think we owe it to future generations to make sure that they don't have >

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-07 Thread Karen Coyle
Owen, I think we owe it to future generations to make sure that they don't have to know MARC. It's beginning to feel like one of those really bad horror films where the dead keep getting up and walking. I'm up for driving a stake through its still-beating heart. Imagine, just imagine, a worl

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-07 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks Karen - probably should have known that! That's the nice thing about MARC - always some new thing to cope with :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:37, Karen Coyle wrote: > T

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-06 Thread Karen Coyle
The "9"s are available in all indicator positions for local use as defined in the MARC record (not MARC21) spec. [1] So what is in the MARC21 spec under a particular tag is the "non-local" values. I suspect that most systems just ignore any '9's they encounter unless those are defined as part o

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-06 Thread Owen Stephens
According to the MARC spec, 035 doesn't support '9' as a valid indicator. My very uneducated guess would be the invalid indicator is causing the underlying system not to index it? Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-06 Thread Alevtina Verbovetskaya
Let's say I've defined these indexes in pqf.properties on the SRU server: index.marc.020 = 1=7 # ISBN index.marc.035:1 = 1=1211 # OCLC/utility number where first indicator is non-blank index.marc.100:1 = 1=1 # author where first indicator is non-blank I can use the ISBN index to search for record

[CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-10-18 Thread Alevtina Verbovetskaya
Hi all, I'm having some difficulties pulling records by MARC fields with indicators via SRU v1.1... and, not knowing where else to turn, I hope the good folks of the CODE4LIB community can help. (If there is a more appropriate place to seek assistance on this topic, please point me to it!) Wha