Re: Link resolvers as loosely coupled systems for holdings? [sru/srw]

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:41:00 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

>> Isn't that what Z39.50 does for us? (Or SRU/SRW).
>
> Well, it's perhaps what they are _supposed_ to do for us.


Psst. SRU/SRW are not necessarily designed to return holdings.
Instead, they are protocols designed to interface with indexes. Send
a query. Return a list of hits. Using SRU/SRW to return holdings
would be a novel use of the protocol; using SRU/SRW for this purpose
would be akin to using something like OpenSearch for this purpose.

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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Tue Sep 11 2007 - 11:46:44 EDT