>I hear you. Right now the closest thing we have to the iMDB is Z39.50. Is the LC server the "definitive" Z39.50 database? If I suck down a record from there, send it to my database, add more information, etc., etc., how does it get back to the LC? Does it? Would the way I'd contribute be to simply run and promote my own Z39.50 server? What's the process to go through twelve different Z39.50 databases and aggregate all the information, all possibly containing minor tweaks to the one record you're interested in? (Warning: these questions stem from my illusionary understanding of Z39.50. I've yet to fully read up on it.)
>You will notice that some of these already exist. author(), title(), >edition(), >publication_date(). I think it could be worthwhile to extend these. What Gotcha. I'll probably send a patch (to the list? where do patches go?) to revise the ::Tutorial to make mention of these - my request/thought came from seeing the raw ::Field creation in the ::Tutorial. >Remember doing this for all the MARC tags is probably [not sane]. Yeah, I had no intent there - anything I do would standardize around the LC MARC booklet/pamphlet thing. At least for now. The "commonly used" stuff seems good enough to me. >If you are talking about adding some accessor functions I would favor just >adding them to MARC::Record. Want to become a developer? It's as simple >as creating a souceforge account, and signing up for duty. I've already a SF account (morbus), and my most popular (AmphetaDesk) is integrated in all the pages of SourceForge; see your own project integration here: http://sf.net/export/rss2_project?group_id=1254. You can certainly add me, but I don't see myself sending straight to CVS anytime soon - I'd rather send patches to the list (or someone) to sanity-check "my MARC intellect is three-weeks old". >> * If indexing things the "right" way was easy, I'd be able to download >> freely available MARC records with indexes for RUE MORGUE, VIDEO >> WATCHDOG, FORTEAN TIMES, and TOYFARE, and I wouldn't have to worry >> about building my own. > >See Net::Z3950. I would be suprised if these have not been cataloged by LC, >and should be available from their Z39.50 server. I looked for FORTEAN TIMES >and found it. You looked via a pre-built script or web-based access? -- Morbus Iff ( damn you richards! i will have my revenge! ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
