Hello,
We are involved in the development of an open source project ASK funded
by JISC, which can
perform a federated search, compliant with a range of internationally
recognised interoperability specifications like z39.50s, SRW/SRU. We
also developed a simple tool that implements this search service and
has been built in to a web page for creating reading lists. You can try
this here,
http://flounder.oucs.ox.ac.uk/mdc2
Currently, this tool is searching just a limited set of z39.50s servers
(mainly
oxford university library catalogue) but we also need to search more
SRW/SRU servers so as to test our system and also for creating reading
lists.
Therefore, we would like to set up this tool to search your database so
that
the users can build their reading lists that includes references to
items that you store. To be able to do this, we need your SRW/SRU
server url and any other relevant details to configure our tool to be
able to search the resources in
your database. If there are any problems with the connection, we will
try to work out what they are and may be here we need your help since
we
don't have access to information about the interface that resides on
your server.
Finally to emphasize, this is an open source
development, all code and the connection configuration file will be
made freely available through sourceforge and our own project web wiki:
If you would like to talk more about this I or
my manager (Howard Noble) can call you at a time convenient to you.
Thanks,
--
Shivram Rajamanickam, LTG Software Developer
Oxford University Computing Services
13, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN.
Tel: (01865) 283674 web: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk