On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Walker, David wrote:
> Eric, you forgot the last step:
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> 5. The data immediately becomes out-of-date, and increasingly stale with each passing day.
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> Doing a one-time dump of MARC data is easy, to be sure.
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> But creating an automated service that exposes your records in such a way that "those files could be crawled by various services and in various ways they could link up the data to point someone to the library's holdings" is a more complex challenge.
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> Especially for libraries with ILS systems that are not particularly worth their weight in salt.
One of the approaches I've seen used by other science data systems that
might be of interest is using software revision management tools. In the
case of the Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory, they use git:
http://vmo.nasa.gov/scm/git/
If you can't consistently order the dumps from your catalog, it might get
messy, though.
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Joe Hourcle
Programer/Analyst
Solar Data Analysis Center
Received on Tue Mar 09 2010 - 12:32:40 EST