How to detect invalid permutations of MARC fields, subfield, and indicator

Hi, There is a question about how to detect invalid permutations of MARC field/subfield/indicator with a web application, for details see: http://libraries.stackexchange.com/questions/1006/how-to-detect-invalid-permutations-of-marc-fields-subfield-and-indicator I guess that someone more famil

MARC::XML failing on CPAN testers

Hi, MARC::XML is heavily failing on CPAN Tester: http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/M/MARC-XML.html My PICA::Record module is failing for the same reason (XML Namespace support for XML::SAX). I don't know how to fix this, so I asked here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=948311 Maybe someone

Re: Finding all the Perl books

brian d foy asked: > I'm looking for a way to discover all the books ever published about > Perl. Where should I look? Unless someone else has already created a bibliography of Perl books, you will find almost all books in library catalogs - except some edge cases that depend on what "published"

Paper on SeeAlso linkserver protocol

Hi, The current issue of Ariadne (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/) which has just been published contains an article about the "SeeAlso" linkserver protocol: Jakob Voß: "SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol", Ariadne Issue 57, 2008. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/voss/ SeeAlso combine

Re: protocol for obtaining holdings not on/from OCLC

Enrico Silterra wrote: Jakob mentions Z39.50, and holdings format. I don't know exactly what catalogs you want to access, but if they do support Z39.50 they should support the holdings format defined for that protocol. The Library of Congress is the repository for these standards. here is a

Re: protocol for obtaining holdings not on/from OCLC

Hi Emily, You asked for a protocol for obtaining holdings. I recently thought about the same topic too. I copy my reply to the CODE4LIB mailing list because it contains some technical implementations that might be more of interest to other developers. You wrote: Sorry for the repost. I just

State of the ZOOM-API implementation in perl?

Hi, I am trying to establish an SRU connection with perl using the ZOOM API (http://zoom.z3950.org/api/). CPAN module Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.20 says that the class ZOOM::Connection "represents a connection to an information retrieval server, using an IR protocol such as ANSI/NISO Z39.50, SRW (the

New Perl-API for PICA+ records

Hi, I just finished the first public version of a new Perl-API for handling records in PICA+ format. http://search.cpan.org/~voj/PICA-Record-0.3/ PICA+ is the internal data format of the Local Library System (LBS) and the Central Library System (CBS) of OCLC PICA. A few weeks ago OCLC bought the