[WEB4LIB] ColdFusion and XML searching/harvesting protocols

Mon Mar 7 17:10:23 EST 2005

Nick,

There is a library oriented CF list--surprisingly named "CF4Lib".  I've
attached my original subscription response below to provide the details.

I haven't yet done SRU/SRW with CF, nor am I aware of anyone else who has,
but I'll get to it eventually--likely sometime after you have.

Mark Ellis
Manager, Reference and Information Services
Richmond Public Library  
Richmond, B.C.                      
(604) 231-6410
www.yourlibrary.ca

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Dobbing [mailto:ndobbing at uoguelph.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:43 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] ColdFusion and XML searching/harvesting protocols
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm writing from the University of Guelph, in Ontario. We're an 
> Endeavor/Voyager site, and we use ColdFusion MX fairly 
> extensively for web 
> programming.
> 
> I've recently become interested in the possibility of 
> emulating (more or 
> less) what the Library of Congress has done with Voyager, its 
> Z39.50 server, 
> and Yaz Proxy, a Z39.50 to XML gateway (see 
> http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/). As many of you 
> probably know, 
> they use this technology to create a web front end for Z39.50 
> searches of 
> their catalogue (see http://www.loc.gov/z3950/).
> 
> As ColdFusion is fairly fluent in XML and web services, I'm 
> starting to look 
> into building utilities to that could talk to a Yaz Proxy 
> gateway, and also 
> perhaps other  interfaces against other XML standards that 
> are appropriate 
> to searching and harvesting metadata, such as OAI-PMH (see 
> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html).
> 
> I know that ColdFusion is used in many libraries, and I've 
> been looking 
> around, but haven't been able to find out if anyone else is 
> doing this kind 
> of thing.
> 
> Are any of you doing work along these lines, or interested in sharing 
> knowledge and techniques for using ColdFusion to solve 
> library business 
> problems? Alternatively, is anyone aware of a ColdFusion user 
> group where 
> library issues are discussed?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nick Dobbing
> ndobbing at uoguelph.ca
> Senior Systems Analyst
> University of Guelph Library
> http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/
> 
> 