Hi All,
This may be of interest. Address any comments to Ashley or to the COPAC helpline ([log in to unmask]) - not to me.
Ann
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The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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From: jisc development discussion forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ashley Sanders
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:38 PM
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Subject: [JISC-DEVELOPMENT] An XML Schema for Holdings information
Hello,
We are currently developing a new version of Copac that will be able to
deliver MODS XML records. As part of this development we required some
way of representing library holdings within a MODS record. We wanted
a simple schema and one that was relatively easy for a human to parse.
As a result we have developed our own Holdings Schema. This is
potentially of interest to other JISC services, and particularly those
(JISC or otherwise) which re-use Copac data. We have produced a web page
describing the schema at:
http://copac.ac.uk/schemas/holdings/
We'd be pleased to receive feedback on the schema -- particularly
as this is our first attempt at one.
There is also a very simple keyword search interface of a (very
volatile and small) test database of Copac MODS records at:
http://copac.ac.uk/test/mods.html
The CGI script called from the above web page only returns MODS
XML records. If your web browser can cope with XSLT, you should
get a fairly reasonable HTML display. A "View Source" should
reveal the MODS record with our holdings schema elements embedded
inside the MODS <extension> element.
Regards,
Ashley.
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Ashley Sanders [log in to unmask]
Copac http://copac.ac.uk A MIMAS Service funded by JISC
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