Hey guys, I hope I'll be forgiven for making what is essentially a commercial post -- it is just that the subject matter is so much inspired by our work with library developers, I'd feel like a chump not to mention it. Apologies, then; I will keep it short.
Basically, we've launched a service for libraries that are building portals, mashups, federation, metasearching, whatever needs access to remote discovery systems. It is designed to get around the hassle that 80% of the things that I usually want to search don't offer SRU, Z39.50, or even for that matter a private API. Our service basically exposes 'just about anything' that we can possibly get to. We make it available to your application through your choice of Z39.50 or SRU. We normalize query formats and record representations; we work with custom APIs, deal with broken SRU servers and half-broken Z39.50, we screen-scrape, we deal with authentication, etc. If we don't already have a connector, we'll make one at no extra charge; if it breaks later, we'll fix it. Feel free to contact me off-list if you're interested in trying it out. http://www.indexdata.com/masterkey-connect/ Cheers, --Sebastian -- Sebastian Hammer, Index Data qu...@indexdata.com www.indexdata.com
