Re: Providing a Z39.50 interface to non-MARC records

From: Ben Ostrowsky <ostrowb_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:10:36 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Well, as part of the OCKHAM project, we are working on a service which
> provides Z39.50 access to any OAI-PMH compatible collection. On the
> upside, there are a lot of OAI-PMH out-of-the box tools to get a
> collection of non-MARC metadata OAI-PMH compatible; on the downside, it
> will be at least a couple of months before we have a usable beta with
> which to start working.

That may be just the ticket -- if OAI-PMH is a reasonable step in the data
transformation (one that could offer another access method), maybe I'd
better see about making this project speak OAI-PMH first and leave the next
step to y'all.

I've been avoiding Yaz and JZKit because I don't know C, C++ or Java yet.
(Perl and PHP can do most of the things I need.)

Thanks!

Ben
Received on Mon May 17 2004 - 16:13:38 EDT