RE: [search-ws] Open URL .... search ... holdings

["Janifer Gatenby" <j.gatenby@oclcpica.org>]

Dear Colleagues,

 

I'm sorry that I wasn't on line when these discussions happened.  I think that Ray mentioned that I am working on a holdings context set to match the ISO holdings schema.  I'm going to start with the holdings attrubute set that I did with Pieter van Lierop in 2000 and cut it back to only those search attributes for which we can find use cases.  http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/holdattr.html

 

I'm leaving aside the debate about whether or not link resolvers can do the job.  I think this is a red herring - some software, OPAC, Resolver or otherwise has to send a query to the ILS database that contains holdings item records and their current status and usage history.  In a bibliographic sense we distinguish between known item (really "known resource") queries and subject queries (no known resource).  Subject queries could have holdings search attributes, e.g. "search for dinosaurs where copies are available at my branch library".  More likely holdings attributes are attached to known resource queries.  "Do you have any copies of this resource available" or "does your x branch have an available copy of this resource".  It really is an awful solution to send a query to discover all the item identifiers of a resource or group of resources, then to send multiple NCIP transactions to discover availability.

 

The attribute set above contains a lot of detail about enumeration and chronology - all of which is actually at the resource level not the holdings level.  It also contains attributes that I don't think would be used for seaching such as extent of holdings.

 

I think that the searchable holdings attributes would be - identifier, location and availability.  Does anybody want to add any more?

 

Janifer

 

 

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From: Kerry Blinco [mailto:kblinco@powerup.com.au]
Sent: 12 September 2007 18:47
To: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Cc: search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [search-ws] Open URL .... search ... holdings

Ray 

From: "Kerry Blinco" <kblinco@powerup.com.au>

When it comes to  searching holdings Matthew talked about one

scenario where a search result returns 400 holdings and you then want

to find which of those holdings are from particular places - eg the

Bodlian and the British Library.  This to me is needs a  Search service.

How do you feel about Ashley's suggestion that that be a client side

problem?

I should have said the reason I think this is our problem is I might want to apply this criteria in the initial search rather than after the result is retrieved (:-)  Sorry to be flippant.  its late in the day and that is a dangerous time for the Australian sense of humour!

Kerry

Kerry Blinco
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