> Well, as part of the OCKHAM project, we are working on a service which > provides Z39.50 access to any OAI-PMH compatible collection. On the > upside, there are a lot of OAI-PMH out-of-the box tools to get a > collection of non-MARC metadata OAI-PMH compatible; on the downside, it > will be at least a couple of months before we have a usable beta with > which to start working. That may be just the ticket -- if OAI-PMH is a reasonable step in the data transformation (one that could offer another access method), maybe I'd better see about making this project speak OAI-PMH first and leave the next step to y'all. I've been avoiding Yaz and JZKit because I don't know C, C++ or Java yet. (Perl and PHP can do most of the things I need.) Thanks! Ben