Request advice on setting up Z39.50 for catalogers
i have found that AMICUS from Canada is quite good, with MARC-21 records from LoC and the British Library system it does you require that you register (free) every 6 months http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/006002-400-e.html Suchetha 2009/7/17 Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@hanover.ca>:
Hello all
If any happy Koha cataloguers out there have a favourite Z39.50 source for good MARC records in a format that Koha can readily import, please would you share the site and settings that work best for you. I am finding Library of Congress is surprisingly not a good source, or maybe I have something wrong in the syntax and encoding settings. Any advice most gratefully accepted!
Many thanks Agnes
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Suchetha Wijenayake<suchetha@gmail.com> wrote:
i have found that AMICUS from Canada is quite good, with MARC-21 records from LoC and the British Library system
Do you find that there's extensive French language content in the AMICUS records? We prefer to keep our records relatively "clean", so lots of French subject headings, etc. would be an issue for us. Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH
no, they have the same records as everyone else. very English. but the library i am working with has a miniscule (<2000) number of books one good thing about AMICUS is that they have taken the British Library's records which are NOT marc and converted them to marc21 and made them available via a z39.50 server. i spoke to the BL and got a beta tester login to their beta z39.50 server which is not open to the public (they are still in the process of deciding what way they should open it up) but will hopefully be open by end Q3 this year my advice would be to use amicus and see how it works out for you .. spend extra oversight on the amicus records to see if they work right. but as far as the library i'm working with is concerned, things are good Suchetha On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Cab Vinton<bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Suchetha Wijenayake<suchetha@gmail.com> wrote:
i have found that AMICUS from Canada is quite good, with MARC-21 records from LoC and the British Library system
Do you find that there's extensive French language content in the AMICUS records?
We prefer to keep our records relatively "clean", so lots of French subject headings, etc. would be an issue for us.
Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH
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Cab Vinton a écrit :
Do you find that there's extensive French language content in the AMICUS records?
We prefer to keep our records relatively "clean", so lots of French subject headings, etc. would be an issue for us.
Hi cab, do you consider french is dirty ? or maybe that frenchies are dirty ? | | | | | | | | v PS : :D :o) and all that kind of smileys ;-) PS2: for newbies here: i'm french, and have been koha Release Manager for 2.0 and 2.2 versions. I don't speak a lot on this channel, because we have a french mailing list for koha that has more than 200 subscribers. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
We prefer to keep our records relatively "clean", so lots of French subject headings, etc. would be an issue for us.
Hi cab, do you consider french is dirty ? or maybe that frenchies are dirty ?
Well, far be it from me to cast aspersions, but ... stereotypes ne jamais pas mentent ... ;-) Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH
Hi to all, At 00.31 17/07/2009, Agnes Rivers-Moore wrote:
Hello all
If any happy Koha cataloguers out there have a favourite Z39.50 source for good MARC records in a format that Koha can readily import, please would you share the site and settings that work best for you. I am finding Library of Congress is surprisingly not a good source, or maybe I have something wrong in the syntax and encoding settings. Any advice most gratefully accepted!
in fact the two most important params on a z39.50 connection are: Syntax (select MARC21 if you use MARC21) Encoding (test the best result with the different option; personaly I suggest to use always UTF-8). Bye Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)
Hi Agnes, 2009/7/16 Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@hanover.ca>:
If any happy Koha cataloguers out there have a favourite Z39.50 source for good MARC records in a format that Koha can readily import, please would you share the site and settings that work best for you. I am finding Library of Congress is surprisingly not a good source, or maybe I have something wrong in the syntax and encoding settings. Any advice most gratefully accepted!
The ‡biblios.net open cataloging service's bibliographic records can be accessed via Z39.50. Connection settings are at https://bws.biblios.net/doku.php/searching_for_bibliographic_and_authority_r... Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt
The ‡biblios.net open cataloging service's bibliographic records can be accessed via Z39.50. Connection settings are at
https://bws.biblios.net/doku.php/searching_for_bibliographic_and_authority_r...
Quick question: What's the source(s) for the records available via biblios? Contributed by biblios users? Cab Vinton
Hi, On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Cab Vinton<bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
The ‡biblios.net open cataloging service's bibliographic records can be accessed via Z39.50. Connection settings are at
https://bws.biblios.net/doku.php/searching_for_bibliographic_and_authority_r...
Quick question: What's the source(s) for the records available via biblios? Contributed by biblios users?
The sources include the Open Library, LC, the Talis Union Catalogue, contributions by several specialized libraries, and ‡biblios.net users. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt
Nicole can certainly do that. I also have included a link to the IRSpy Z39.50 Directory on the Z39.50 page : http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/administration/additional-parameter... Will go add some tips to the documentation. If you all send me your usernames on koha.org I'll add you as contributors to the document. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Agnes Rivers-Moore<arm@hanover.ca> wrote:
Thank you to all the responders for all this useful information! Perhaps Nicole would like to gather it all into a FAQ for the documentation site.
I have tested Amicus, so far with success. Thanks for the interesting info about their records. It does have occasional French headings, but not too many of those. There is a French repository in Montreal, the Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec, which has a much stronger French flavour.
I will test the Biblios.net - thanks for the connection settings.
Agnes
Galen Charlton wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Cab Vinton<bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
The ‡biblios.net open cataloging service's bibliographic records can be accessed via Z39.50. Connection settings are at
https://bws.biblios.net/doku.php/searching_for_bibliographic_and_authority_r...
Quick question: What's the source(s) for the records available via biblios? Contributed by biblios users?
The sources include the Open Library, LC, the Talis Union Catalogue, contributions by several specialized libraries, and ‡biblios.net users.
Regards,
Galen
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Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
Here it is: http://koha.org/documentation/faq/what-is-your-favorite-z39.50-server/view --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Nicole Engard<nicole.engard@liblime.com> wrote:
Nicole can certainly do that. I also have included a link to the IRSpy Z39.50 Directory on the Z39.50 page : http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/administration/additional-parameter...
Will go add some tips to the documentation. If you all send me your usernames on koha.org I'll add you as contributors to the document.
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Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Agnes Rivers-Moore<arm@hanover.ca> wrote:
Thank you to all the responders for all this useful information! Perhaps Nicole would like to gather it all into a FAQ for the documentation site.
I have tested Amicus, so far with success. Thanks for the interesting info about their records. It does have occasional French headings, but not too many of those. There is a French repository in Montreal, the Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec, which has a much stronger French flavour.
I will test the Biblios.net - thanks for the connection settings.
Agnes
Galen Charlton wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Cab Vinton<bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
The ‡biblios.net open cataloging service's bibliographic records can be accessed via Z39.50. Connection settings are at
https://bws.biblios.net/doku.php/searching_for_bibliographic_and_authority_r...
Quick question: What's the source(s) for the records available via biblios? Contributed by biblios users?
The sources include the Open Library, LC, the Talis Union Catalogue, contributions by several specialized libraries, and ‡biblios.net users.
Regards,
Galen
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Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
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Agnes Rivers-Moore -
Cab Vinton -
Galen Charlton -
Nicole Engard -
paul POULAIN -
Suchetha Wijenayake -
Zeno Tajoli