important German libraries
important German libraries
Has anybody of you made import filters for the DDB (Die Deutsche Bibliothek, which is the German National Bibliography). Informations about the Z39.50 Gateway can be found here:
http://www.ddb.de/service/zd/z39_50.htm
Another important catalog is the SWB (Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund), which contains lots of University Libraries and a few state libraries in Southwestern Germany.
http://titan.bsz-bw.de/cms/service/swb/z3950/lite
If somebody has already done the filters, it would be great you would share it. It also would be great if these boths catalogs very added to Bookends by default.
http://www.ddb.de/service/zd/z39_50.htm
Another important catalog is the SWB (Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund), which contains lots of University Libraries and a few state libraries in Southwestern Germany.
http://titan.bsz-bw.de/cms/service/swb/z3950/lite
If somebody has already done the filters, it would be great you would share it. It also would be great if these boths catalogs very added to Bookends by default.
The last time I checked (several months ago) access to the DDB was restricted somehow, which lessened my motivation to build an import filter tremendously. However, I think they might be more accessible by now. (They should - I think it's a huge scandal that they aren't!)
If you whip up something be sure to post it here / send it to Jon. I am sure many people would use it if the access is more liberal by now.
So far, I did not invest any work in the SWB and haven't heard from anyone else who would…
If you whip up something be sure to post it here / send it to Jon. I am sure many people would use it if the access is more liberal by now.
So far, I did not invest any work in the SWB and haven't heard from anyone else who would…
I haven't looked into it. Reiner, why not just make the filter yourself? Make a New filter based on one of the existing German library filters and rename it to the new library. The settings in the Internet tab are all you probably need to change to get it to work -- it should be pretty obvious from inspection what you need to do.
If you make the filter, please send it to me and I'll include it in the next release.
Jon
Sonny Software
If you make the filter, please send it to me and I'll include it in the next release.
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon,
I tried it for SWB but does not get any other result than "There are no matches". Could you give me a hint what this means?
Or would anybody have a look at http://titan.bsz-bw.de/cms/service/swb/ ... target.pdf and perhaps be more successful than me?
btw: the built-in German filter for HeBIS also only creates the "There are no matches"-dialog.
yours, reiner
edit: I'm also not able to create a working filter for DDB, the error message I got here is: "Error[114]: Use attribute value (i.e., index type) is not supported by target system."
I can't find any information about this in the user guide.
I tried it for SWB but does not get any other result than "There are no matches". Could you give me a hint what this means?
Or would anybody have a look at http://titan.bsz-bw.de/cms/service/swb/ ... target.pdf and perhaps be more successful than me?
btw: the built-in German filter for HeBIS also only creates the "There are no matches"-dialog.
yours, reiner
edit: I'm also not able to create a working filter for DDB, the error message I got here is: "Error[114]: Use attribute value (i.e., index type) is not supported by target system."
I can't find any information about this in the user guide.
Hi Ozean and everyone else,
I tried it for days now to get SWB and DDB to work. Maybe somebody of you could throw a look at it and will have more luck than me?
Or do you have some (german) speaking information about z39.50-filters? Very helpful would be a documentation of error messages.
best regards
I tried it for days now to get SWB and DDB to work. Maybe somebody of you could throw a look at it and will have more luck than me?
Or do you have some (german) speaking information about z39.50-filters? Very helpful would be a documentation of error messages.
best regards
Reiner, both of these sites present problems. I was able to connect to DDE, but it was pretty useless because the output isn't in a form Bookends can parse (not MARC, FULL, or BRIEF).
I could connect to SWB, it seemed, but Bookends gets back 0 hits even when SWB says there are many (e.g. searching for 'test' got 16190 hits, but 0 returned. I've seen this before, and it was some bad setting at the library end. So I suggest you contact them and as about it.
FWIW, I also tried connecting with other applications, with no success. You might try, too.
Jon
Sonny Software
I could connect to SWB, it seemed, but Bookends gets back 0 hits even when SWB says there are many (e.g. searching for 'test' got 16190 hits, but 0 returned. I've seen this before, and it was some bad setting at the library end. So I suggest you contact them and as about it.
FWIW, I also tried connecting with other applications, with no success. You might try, too.
Jon
Sonny Software
I contacted SWB already one or two weeks ago and no answer so far. I contacted DDB yesterday. If I will have some new information, I will let you know.
It would be very annoying if these two catalogues were not useable with Bookends. Many libraries provide enz-files for Endnote and cap-files for Reference Manager, is there a way to use these files? If I open them with a texteditor they are not or not very good readable.
It would be very annoying if these two catalogues were not useable with Bookends. Many libraries provide enz-files for Endnote and cap-files for Reference Manager, is there a way to use these files? If I open them with a texteditor they are not or not very good readable.
Now I made small improvements with the DDB, more documentation-docments will hopefully arrive in the next days. So I hope I can make a filter which can be tested by others. (I'm still not understanding lot of the things I do there
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One question I have now because I didn't find a setting for that in the import filter: All diacritics (Umlaute: ä, ö, ü, ß) are wrong in the replies I get from the database. How can this be fixed?
Thanks in advance.
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One question I have now because I didn't find a setting for that in the import filter: All diacritics (Umlaute: ä, ö, ü, ß) are wrong in the replies I get from the database. How can this be fixed?
Thanks in advance.