I couldn’t say it, but Alexander Johannesen could: libraries are the last bastions of the “not invented here syndrome” (scroll down just a bit, you’ll find it).
Between Alex’s post and mine, I don’t think there’s much to say except this: there may be five programmers in the world who know how to work with Z39.50, [...]
Posted January 29, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: Alexander Johannesen, data interchange, libraries, library, library standards, networked information, not invented here, standards, z39.50. 4 Comments.
Ryan beat me to reporting on the interesting new services at the Ockham Network (noted in this Web4lib post). The easiest one to grok is this spelling service, but there are others that are cooler.
He also alerted me to a Perl script to proxy Z39.50 to RSS. Though for those more into PHP (like me), [...]
Posted October 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cat date, ils, index data, information retrieval, libaries, library, library catalog, library systems, ockham, opac, perl script, php, rss, search by cat date, sort by cat date, xml, yaz, z39.50, z39.50 proxy. Be the first one.
