It *is* one of the things that OpenURL is intended to solve, yes. But
only on the 'request' end (e.g. here is how I ask you if you have
Volume X, Issue Y of some resource).
The problem is that very, very, very few ILSes have any capacity to
'answer' this request in any meaningful way. The information is just
not stored in a way to allow for consistent response.
The best one can generally hope is glean "real" serials holdings from
the serials check-in history. But this assumes there's some
standardized or consistent serials check-in process and only goes back
to when the current system began checking in serials. If there was an
ILS migration at any point, the 'historical record' is almost
certainly only kept as summary text holdings.
MFHD provides some standardization and consistency, but not only is
this not supported on all ILSes, it's probably not the top priority of
many institutions to go deep into their backfile and catalog all of
the issues of all of their serials from the opening of the library to
present.
-Ross.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Tim McGeary wrote:
>>
>> ... To go even
>> further, if I have this particular journal in print and 3 electronic
>> versions, I'd like it to be clear to the user exactly which URL to
>> access for volume X and issue Y.
>>
>> Now that said, the exact data model (including the abstract intellectual
>> entity-relationship data model and the physical data description data
>> model, among others) will be defined by Phase 2 Build Team that comes
>> after us.
>
> Isn't that what the OpenURL-Standard is supposed to be for:
>
> http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/sfxopenurlsyntax
>
>
> At the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, it has been implemented and an
> XML service has been configured to exploit the periodicals
> data resources we have. These include detailed holdings data that
> are formatted in ways to allow for algorithmic determination of
> what a library actually has or what license they have for which
> online parts of a periodical.
>
> Documentation is here:
>
> http://www.zeitschriftendatenbank.de/downloads/pdf/XMLDienst_Beschreibung.pdf
>
> And here:
>
> http://services.d-nb.de/fize-service/
>
> you can look at two sample queries.
>
> The open URL, if you want to try it out, is
>
> http://services.d-nb.de/fize-service/gvr/full.xml?
>
>
> B.Eversberg
>
Received on Thu Mar 19 2009 - 10:02:02 EDT