- 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.
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Ashley Sanders a.sanders@mcc.ac.uk
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Received on Monday, 25 February 2002 08:44:39 UTC