> 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