Thanks Kerry,
I can't think of a reasonable example
A search is usually for a specific article, therefore
a specific issue. The bibliographic part of the search would include the
enumeration and chronology. This wouldn't be part of the holdings
attributes of the search.
Unlikely example: "journal of anatomy where the
holdings are incomplete" ?
"journal of anatomy where the holdings are
complete"?
Can you think of a likely one?
Janifer
Thanks Jan
That is so eloquently what I meant when I said it is our problem!
Why don't you think you would want to search extent of
holdings?
Kerry
On 17/09/2007, at 9:10 PM, Janifer Gatenby wrote:
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
Ray
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
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