[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RE: Serials Management

[Dan Scott]

2008/9/16 David Fiander <david at fiander.info>:

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> I have started to think that serials issuance patterns are something
> that should be shared: it's not like I get different issues of the
> Economist or Lancet than you do, so why should we duplicate the effort
> of describing the pattern?
>
> That is, of course, a completely different project from
> exporting/importing holdings data and making predictions about when
> the next issue should arrive.

You are not alone; CONSER's "Public Pattern Initiative"
(http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/patthold.html) was an effort to do
exactly this. I'm not sure whether the project is still alive, though.

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University