Heya Chris.. Index Data used to maintain a public registry of z3950
targets, and I think it used to show which targets support the OPAC-1
record syntax as a means of supporting holdings info.. Might be a good
place to start?

Ian.

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 14:05 +0000, Chris Keene wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We recently implemented a new third party web catalogue (Aquabrowser).
> 
> So far so good, and separating the web based discovery layer from the 
> monolithic ILS seems to be the right direction.
> 
> However there seems to be two areas of weakness: Holdings and 'My 
> Accout' (renewal, reservations). i.e. the need for  *any* 
> catalogue/discovery system to allow users to see holdings and account 
> info from *any* ils.
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get my facts right on the current situation. Any help 
> appreciated.
> 
> re Holdings.  Two things come up when asking around and looking on the 
> web (some what briefly), Z39.50 and ISO 20775.
> 
> Can anyone give me an idea if any/many/all (ILS) Z implementations have 
> implemented the holdings information?
> 
> Is there a way of testing this using a client such as yaz (e.g. a worked 
> example of seeing holdings via Z)
> 
> Is there interest from ILS suppliers in the ISO holdings standard, are 
> any of them implementing it?
> 
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso20775/
> http://www.portia.dk/zholdings/
> http://www.nlbconference.com/ilds/plenary4B.htm
> 
> 
> Thanks for any info
> Chris