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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