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There are some very useful things one can get back from III via Z39.50. Terry Resse from OSU showed me that if you send a Z39.50 request for the "opac" syntax you can actually get back holdings information and whether or not something is checked out. I had no trouble playing around with this via the Z39.50 piece of MARC edit and getting back the data I wanted. Based on this info and reading about yaz-proxy, I've been hoping that by implementing yaz-proxy that I might setup an SRW/U service for III. Has anyone on this list considered this option or tried it out? Karen On 5/15/08 11:57 AM, "Cloutman, David" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It is very clear to me, from trying to integrate into our III systems, > is that their ILS is desperately in need of being reworked into more of > an SOA model. The best that they can currently do for library developers > is sell us an RSS product, which I think probably falls short of what we > actually need. What we need is a well documented, functional, > standards-based web service that could be used to hook into other > applications. It seems to me that the best that many of us can do with > the III product in terms of automated integration is to grab data > through some sort of screen scraping. > > The fact that a product like Encore works at all, to me indicates that > there must be some sort of programmatic hooks in the catalog that we as > customers could leverage for our own purposes, but I have not been able > to find any documentation of these. > > Of course, empowering developers, or their customers in general, is not > in the III business model, so I don't think we can expect much from > them. > > > > --- > David Cloutman <[log in to unmask]> > Electronic Services Librarian > Marin County Free Library > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:39 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Life after Expect > > > On May 15, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > >> Just as the hot dog cookers and other one trick wonders in the kitchen >> are of very limited use, special purpose tools that attempt to define >> your problem and solution are not nearly useful as generic ones in an >> ILS context. I am still hoping that vendors will recognize that true >> interoperability is a feature that increases the value of the ILS more >> than just about anything else. > > > Well said. The vendor who provides a suit of tools that can > interoperate with any number of other standards-based tools is as > vendor to establish close relationships with. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department > Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame > > (574) 631-8604 > > Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm -- Karen A. Coombs Head of Libraries' Web Services University of Houston 114 University Libraries Houston, TX 77204-2000 Phone: (713) 743-3713 Fax: (713) 743-9811 Email: [log in to unmask]