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 -- Archie Warnock [log in to unmask] -- A/WWW Enterprises http://www.awcubed.com -- As a matter of fact, I _do_ speak for my employer.