[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] RE: Serials Management

[Edward M. Corrado]

David J. Fiander wrote:
> 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

Yep. "We can program it better than the standard attitude" really hurts 
us here. At least they should support exporting and importing using MFHD 
even if they use something different within the ILS. Compared to a lot 
of other things in the Library world, the MFHD is not really that 
complicated. It is a shame that our systems make it so hard to share 
this type of data even when there are standards. Hopefully Evergreen 
will lead the way and make things like this work for libraries.

Edward


>
> 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
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