- From: Thomas G. Habing <thabing@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:13:51 -0500
- To: oai-general@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu, oai-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu, www-zig@w3.org
Hi all, We have just made a beta release of ZMARCO, our Z39.50, MARC record, OAI data provider. It is available from SourceForge at http://zmarco.sourceforge.net/ -- from this page refer to the README for details. ZMARCO is an Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) 2.0 compliant data provider. The 'Z' in ZMARCO stands for Z39.50; 'MARC' stands for MAchine-Readable Cataloging; and the 'O' stands for OAI, as in the Open Archives Inititive. Essentially ZMARCO allows MARC records which are already available through a Z39.50 server to relatively easily be made available via the OAI-PMH. Among the supported metadata formats are Dublin Core, MARCXML, and MODS. We have currently only tested ZMARCO using a subset (about 3,000,000 records) from the University of Illinois' online library catalog, and it works OK (at least with only us harvesting it). If anyone tries it with other Z39.50 servers, please let us know how it works. From the README file: Platform and Environment ------------------------ Windows 2000 Internet Information Server 5 (IIS 5) Active Server Pages (ASP) Accessible Z39.50 Server supporting the following features: USmarc Record Syntax (may be extended to support other MARC syntaxes in the future) Bib-1 Use Attribute 31, Publication Date (Year) Bib-1 Use Attribute 12, Control Number No limit on the number search hits available for one query Kind Regards, Tom -- Thomas Habing Research Programmer, Digital Library Projects University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 155 Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, MC-274 thabing@uiuc.edu, (217) 244-4425 http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu
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