relationship to ISO holdings?
Godmar Back
I encountered a report from last year's SRU Implementors/Ed. Board
Meeting in which Janifer Gatenby describes the ISO holdings schema.
The summary can be found here:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/june2007meeting-report.html#holdings
Relevant quote:
"This standard differs from many other holdings standards in that it
is primarily designed to be used in search responses rather than for
reporting purposes. As a response schema, it includes relatively
static and dynamic information in combination. The dynamic
information comprises availability and policy information that may
differ depending on the requester and also usage history. It covers
all holdings, physical and electronic. Another important feature of
the schema is that it includes a summary section for a group of
"interchangeable copies" that can be readily parsed and displayed
indicating availability and policy (e.g. terms of delivery). The
summary is flexible enough to cover multiple definitions of
"interchangeability" depending on user needs, e.g. multiple copies
(physical and digital) of a book or article, multiple copies of
various different editions of a work, and multiple copies of different
works in a result set."
There's already an XML Schema defined as info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:iso20775
available here:
javascript:location.href='http://www.oclcpica.org/content/1013/xsd/N110_ISO_holdings_v3.1.xsd'
Which, among other things, defines how to specify availability.
Though I'm an outsider to the library world, I know that most of you
guys are not - so I'm wondering why this issue hasn't come up.
Could you clarify the relationship of the current discussion to this
standardization effort?
- Godmar