[WEB4LIB] ColdFusion and XML searching/harvesting protocols

[Sebastian Hammer]

Hi Nick,

I'd suggest that you also post your question to the SRW listserv (signon 
info and archive at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/listserv.html).

Also note that the YAZ proxy supports both SRW and the SOAP-free 
XML-over-HTTP-GET sibling SRU. The latter protocol is really so simple 
there's no reason to not just throw yourself into it.

All the best,

--Sebastian

At 11:43 AM 3/6/2005 -0800, Nick Dobbing wrote:
>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/

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