[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RE: Serials Management

[David J. Fiander]

That's a very interesting site. Of particular interest is the "Survey  
on Vendor Support" http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/patthold- 
vendorsurvey.html:

Of the 11 vendors surveyed, 10 support MFHD, and they use that  
information to set up their issue predictions. But only 6 vendors use  
the $y regularity pattern to "anticipate normalized irregulars" (like  
the Economist or Library Journal combined/skipped issues).

And NONE of the vendors support sharing MFHD with other ILS systems.  
Gotta love communication standards.

- David

On 16-Sep-2008, at 17:20 , Dan Scott wrote:

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

-- 
David J. Fiander
Library Software Development