Re: Whose elephant is it, anyway? (the OLE project)

From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:52:25 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
The OpenURL standard is a standard for passing citation information. 
It's not a standard for what the response from an OpenURL-receiving 
standard will be.

But more than that, regardless of standards for passing the request, my 
backend systems _do not maintain sufficient information to answer this 
question_ for print holdings. I don't think my library is unique in 
this, although it's also not universal.

Jonathan

Bernhard Eversberg 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 - 10:55:35 EDT