Hi Archie,

Thanks for this fantastic devlopment.  Your interface is really
useful to have, as it proves that in a relatively short time you've
added the ability to index ERC/Kernel metadata into Isite2 and you've
created a user interface that supports search and retrieval of the
indexed ERC/Kernel records.  A couple of questions:

   1.  Would you mind if I linked to the demo from the working group page?

   2.  Will you be releasing a version of Isite2 that supports the ERC
       format, and may we link to it also?

Another cool thing is the Z39.50 interface.  For those who don't know,
Z39.50 is an international standard protocol for searching library-like
systems.  As for the "BIB-1 attributes" to which Archie mentioned mapping
the kernel elements -- they are simply Z39.50-speak for metadata elements
playing the role of search fields.  In BIB-1 (bib1), these elements of
numbers such as 1=author, 4=title.  In the library world it is important
to support several flavors of titles, authors, identifiers, dates, etc.
Final question for Archie:

   3.  Is there utility in documenting ERC-to-Z39.50 attribute mappings?
       That is, is there a new attribute set or profile this group might
       consider creating for kernel metadata?

-John


--- On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Archie Warnock wrote:
Hi Folks,

Just for grins, I've built a little web-based search interface that will
search John's file of sample ERC records and posted it online.  It's
built on Isearch, which I now maintain for the USGS/FGDC/Geospatial
OneStop projects, but customizing it to handle ERC records didn't take
very long.  Eventually I'll try to clean up the CGI interface to
correctly return XML as well as HTML.

I have also built a simple Z39.50 interface using pretty much ad hoc use
attribute mapping, but it ought to be simple enough to permit a little
playing around to see how useful the records are.

The web interface is at www.awcubed.com/ERCsearch.html
The Z39.50 interface is at www.awcubed.com, port 210, dbname erc.  I
used the following table of mappings to BIB-1 attributes:

bib1/1=WHO
bib1/2=WHO
bib1/3=WHO
bib1/4=WHAT
bib1/30=WHEN
bib1/31=WHEN
bib1/1007=WHERE
bib1/1013=WHERE
bib1/1016=Any
bib1/1032=WHERE

I can make changes to those, as desired.  Let me know if it's at all
useful.

--

Archie

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