Rob Sanderson writes:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:39 +0100, Mike Taylor wrote:
> > In a ZeeRex-profile SRU application that we are just finishing off
> > now, we need to search for targets by country of origin and bny
> > library type (academic, public, legal, etc.)
> >
> > I can't find any appropriate CQL indexes for either of these in any of
> > the existing sets. Can anyone point out indexes that I've missed? If
> > not, we will have to introduce naughty temporary additions to the
> > ZeeRex set until a better solution is found. (Yes, the country and
> > library-type fields are in extensions to the ZeeRex record.)
>
> At a database metadata level? eg the database is served from X country?
>
> Or at a collection level? Eg the database represents items in a
> particular country?
The latter.
> Given 'library-type' I assume the latter. Which to me is a collection
> description issue, not a service description issue, and hence not a
> problem that ZeeRex tries to solve at that level of granularity.
>
> Thoughts?
With my Stern Academic's hat on, I agree. With my Need To Get Stuff
Done hat on, I don't. We both know that the purity of the ZeeRex
record as a service-description-and-nothing-else is already hopelessly
compromised by not just a few but many of the included fields. The
ones I am describing here are entirely analogous to (for example) the
databaseInfo section's description, author, extent, etc.
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