Re: protocol for obtaining holdings not on/from OCLC

Enrico Silterra wrote:

> Jakob mentions Z39.50, and holdings format.
> I don't know exactly what catalogs you want to access, but if they do 
> support Z39.50 they should support
> the holdings format defined for that protocol.
> The Library of Congress is the repository for these standards.
> 
> 
> here is a sample interaction, with the yaz command line client:
> 
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Oh thanks! I am not that familiar with Z39.50 and I did not know that
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/holdattr.html exists. Now you only 
have to find out how to get the holding data with a script using YAZ and 
how to boil down this data to a usable format of 2 to 4 simple fields 
with a handful of possible values like location (any string), 
call-number (any string) and availability (yes, date, or no).

Greetings,
Jakob

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