Hi, I've been using Koha for about 18 hours now. Yup, installed last night. :-) And I've got some question about publicly accessible z39.50 servers for MARC records. First, looking through the archives I see a suggestion that a list of publicly available might be complied. Has this happened? If so a pointer would be gratefully received. Side note: is there any effort at a coordinated free catalogue like the freecddb.org for music CD's? This is a project solely for myself and there's no way I can afford to pay out usd 500 for a subscription. Second I'm frustrated by the searches I have been able to do. The Library of Congress is already in the install. I've found and configured British Library, Library of Scotland and a "free trial" at Itsmark.com. So far I'm really disappointed at the level of response. I've tried 6 books by ISBN (which is the obvious way as I've a bar code reader to input the number) 2 US and 4 UK and 2 by author name. The author search found only one (and didn't return the book I had) from the LOC. ISBN search also found only one - wish some humour it was the O'Reilly HTML Pocket Reference. Here's the log entry for that good result: Processing isbn="1565925793" at 1 z3950.loc.gov:7090 voyager (4 forks) Q: @attr 1=7 "1565925793" SPEED: 1 z3950.loc.gov:7090 done 1 z3950.loc.gov:7090 done. However I have a bunch - in fact hundreds - of errors for the same search on the Itsmark server: Processing isbn="1565925793" at 2 z3950.itsmarc.com:5666 LCCurrentZ (2 forks) Q: @attr 1=7 "1565925793" ERROR: Can't call method "option" on an undefined value at /var/www/library/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 163, <KC> line 22. z3950.itsmarc.com:5666 done. That log is 3387 lines long. I can't see what value is "undefined". Can anyone suggest something? Cheers, Matthew
On 2003-10-19 13:00:35 +0100 Matthew Malthouse <matthew.malthouse@ntlworld.com> wrote:
First, looking through the archives I see a suggestion that a list of publicly available might be complied. Has this happened? If so a pointer would be gratefully received.
Others already do, like http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/zdir/
I can't see what value is "undefined". Can anyone suggest something?
Probably $conn, which I think would mean the connection failed. Another variable, $noconnection, seems to be used to indicate no connection, though. I really am going to take some heavy tools to the z3950 subsystem very soon if I can't make them work reliably. I get similar problems to this, but also blank results from searches that work from simple perl Net::Z3950 scripts. I will debug this further later today. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
At 10:56 20/10/2003 +0100, you wrote:
On 2003-10-19 13:00:35 +0100 Matthew Malthouse <matthew.malthouse@ntlworld.com> wrote:
First, looking through the archives I see a suggestion that a list of publicly available might be complied. Has this happened? If so a pointer would be gratefully received.
Others already do, like http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/zdir/
Thanks very much, that looks most promising. Cheers, Matthew
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