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Hey, Tod. Nice to see you on the list! Will you be joining us in Athens, GA next month? How is our dream of an open source endeca progressing on your end? Bess On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Tod Olson wrote: > On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Nathan Vack wrote: > >> On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote: >> >>> Nate, it's pretty easy. Once you dump your records into a giant >>> marc >>> file, you can run marc2xml >>> (http://search.cpan.org/~kados/MARC-XML-0.82/bin/marc2xml). Then >>> run an >>> XSLT against the marcxml file to create your SOLR xml docs. >> >> Unless I'm totally, hugely mistaken, MARC doesn't say anything about >> holdings data, right? If I want to facet on that, would it make more >> sense to add holdings data to the MARC XML data, or keep separate xml >> files for holdings that reference the item data? >> >> In a lot of cases, location data might not be a hugely important >> facet; at Madison, we have something like 42 libraries spread thinly >> across campus (gah!) -- each with different loan policies -- as well >> as a few request-only storage facilities. So there's a lot of "Stuff >> I Can't Check Out" and a lot of "Stuff I'll Need To Wait For" in our >> collection. > > Actually, there is a MARC format for holdings data, > > http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html > > And a number of the 8XX fields in the bib record can contain holdings > data: > > http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhold.html > > So it may not be totally unnatural to put your holdings-related facet > info into the MARC XML alongside the bib data. (Though you may want to > think about how to handle long serials runs.) > > I would think that the big question is how (whether?) Voyager > exports holdings data. > > > Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> > Programmer/Analyst > University of Chicago Library Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler Head, Technical and Metadata Services Digital Scholarship Services Box 400129 Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 [log in to unmask] (434) 243-2305