- From: Ashley Sanders <zzaascs@irwell.mimas.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:44:36 +0000
- To: www-zig@w3.org
Matthew Dovey wrote: > > As probably the people describing the content of the database > > are not the > > same people as describing the technical specs, this also > > means that they > > can be two completely separate records if desired. > > In practice, it is quite likely that aligning services and collections > can be very problematic: > > COPAC in the UK for example, provides access to a number of collections > (it being a Union catalogue of various UK Universities) - each > subcollection is however also available from the library system at that > University. It might also be borne in mind that not all our member libraries have their own z39.50 target, and when they do, they always deliver different record syntaxes to us. Ashley. -- Ashley Sanders a.sanders@mcc.ac.uk COPAC: A public bibliographic database from MIMAS, funded by JISC http://copac.ac.uk/ - copac@mimas.ac.uk
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