Re: Z39.50 on the web (and in print)

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
COPAC: A public bibliographic database from MIMAS, funded by JISC
             http://copac.ac.uk/ - copac@mimas.ac.uk

Received on Monday, 25 February 2002 08:44:39 UTC