Re: protocol for obtaining holdings not on/from OCLC

2008-01-17 Thread Jakob Voss
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

2008-01-16 Thread Enrico Silterra
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 sample interaction, with

Re: protocol for obtaining holdings not on/from OCLC

2008-01-16 Thread Jakob Voss
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

protocol for obtaining holdings not on/from OCLC

2007-12-19 Thread emily nedell tuck
Hi, Sorry for the repost. I just wanted to clarify since people responded about pulling data out of OCLC-- I have three different catalogs I would like to bring together, including the holdings records. Is there a way of grabbing the holdings data and not just the bib data? I want to create o