From: Mike Taylor Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:06:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Append X-Git-Tag: CPAN-v1.02~54^2~321 X-Git-Url: http://sru.miketaylor.org.uk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fab7371d437195ef34eb5689735eb5d0d9ac44a7;p=irspy-moved-to-github.git Append --- diff --git a/archive/mbox b/archive/mbox index dc3fa83..d6011b5 100644 --- a/archive/mbox +++ b/archive/mbox @@ -1052,3 +1052,258 @@ multipart/mixed +From mike Thu Jul 5 09:59:05 2007 +X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] + ["3436" "Thursday" "5" "July" "2007" "09:10:32" "+0300" "Juha Hakala" "juha.hakala@helsinki.fi" nil "78" "IRSpy acceptance" "^X-Spam-Status:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] + nil) +Return-path: +Envelope-to: mike@indexdata.com +Delivery-date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:30:52 +0200 +Received: from bagel.indexdata.dk [213.150.43.11] + by localhost.localdomain with POP3 (fetchmail-6.3.6) + for (single-drop); Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:59:05 +0100 (BST) +Received: from sender-03.it.helsinki.fi ([128.214.205.141]) + by bagel.indexdata.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) + id 1I6Mjh-00057h-G1; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:30:52 +0200 +Received: from orm6.lib.helsinki.fi (orm6.lib.helsinki.fi [128.214.91.244]) + by sender-03.it.helsinki.fi (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l656AWAZ001069 + (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); + Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:10:32 +0300 +Received: from [128.214.91.248] (oktas-2.lib.helsinki.fi [128.214.91.248]) + (authenticated bits=0) + by orm6.lib.helsinki.fi (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l656AV9H020283 + (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); + Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:10:31 +0300 +Message-ID: <468C8B58.4020800@helsinki.fi> +User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit +X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 128.214.205.141 +X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: dorman@indexdata.com, mike@indexdata.com, quinn@indexdata.com, sondberg@indexdata.com +X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: juha.hakala@helsinki.fi +X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on bagel.indexdata.dk +X-Spam-Level: +X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) +X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on bagel.indexdata.dk) +X-UIDL: Wa%"!eMo!!!38!!+Tm!! +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham + version=3.0.3 +From: Juha Hakala +To: "Per M. Hansen" , Mike Taylor , + sondberg@indexdata.com, Sebastian Hammer , + Ere Maijala , + Kristiina Hormia , + Annu Jauhiainen , + Pertti Rekala , + =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tuula_Haapam?= + =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4ki?= , + Kai Ekholm , + Adam Dickmeiss , + Eeva Murtomaa , + David Dorman +Subject: IRSpy acceptance +Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:10:32 +0300 + +Hello all, + +The National Library of Finland accepts the IRSpy application, following +the successful beta testing of the software in the library. + +Our billing address is + +Helsingin yliopisto +Kansalliskirjasto / Kirjastoverkkopalvelut +PL 7138 +01051 LASKUT + +Please mention responsibility area code (in Finnish, vastuualuekoodi) +98123. + +I-D is most welcome to announce availability of this application to the +general public. Please mention in the announcement that the development +effort was a cooperative project between I-D and the national library of +Finland. Since I will start vacation next Monday I will not be able to +review the text unless it is sent tomorrow. + +IRSpy is the first implementation of the NISO draft standard +Z39.92-200X. As such it makes it possible to complete the +standardization process. My intention as the chair of the NISO working +group developing the standard is to publish the second draft of it in +August. As far as I know, development of IRSpy did not reveal any +problems in the present draft, so the second one can be published +unaltered. + +We will discuss with Ex Libris Group and WebClarity Software Inc. about +incorporation of IRSpy into, respectively, MetaLib and BookWhere. The +national library has no intention to host IRSpy ourselves in the short +run, and we will never try to run a global site, mainly due to +considerable systems expert time that would require. Moreover, the +present IRSpy database which is apparently inherited from your previous +ZSpy software) is out of date - many databases no longer are available +in the same address where they were located a few years back - and would +require a thorough manual revision. + +A decentralized network of national/regional IRSpy installations, each +concentrating on its geographical area, is the only truly feasible model +for hosting the tool (this does not rule out the possibility of +harvesting the Z39.92 data into a physical union catalogue). One issue +we will most likely discuss in the Autumn here in the national library +is whether maintenance of a national database of Information retrieval +service descriptions using Z39.92 (and IRSpy) will fit within the +national bibliographic responsibilities of the national library. As far +as I am concerned, it is more important to describe how for instance the +national bibliography database can be used for search and retrieval (and +to share this data with other libraries) than catalogue manually some +obscure grey Web literature. Google can do the latter more efficiently +than we, but Google can not and will not be able to deal efficiently +with (a large number of) databases. Due to Z39.92 and IRSpy the national +libraries will have an option to discuss how to deal with databases +within the national bibliographic context. Without a standard to steer +creation and exchange of IR service descriptions and an efficient tool +for creating those descriptions trying to extend national bibliographic +activities to "deep Web" would not have been possible. With the web +archives were are already dealing with the uppermost level of the Web, +and with Z39.92 and IRSpy we have a chance to gain access to the rest of +it. + +Best regards, + +Juha Hakala + +-- + + Juha Hakala + Director, Information Technology + + The National Library of Finland + P.O.Box 15 (Unioninkatu 36, room 503), FIN-00014 Helsinki University + Email juha.hakala@helsinki.fi, tel +358 50 382 7678 + + + + + +From mike@miketaylor.org.uk Thu Jul 5 10:04:22 2007 +X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] + ["4504" "Thursday" "5" "July" "2007" "10:04:22" "+0100" "Mike Taylor" "mike@indexdata.com" nil "103" "[Juha Hakala: IRSpy acceptance]" "^From:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] + nil) +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: mike +Delivered-To: mike@miketaylor.org.uk +Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) + id 850864D6420C; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:04:22 +0100 (BST) +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit +Message-ID: <18060.46102.456630.110731@localhost.localdomain> +X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 +From: Mike Taylor +To: perhans@indexdata.dk +Subject: [Juha Hakala: IRSpy acceptance] +Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:04:22 +0100 + +Excellent news! + +You get that invoice out; I will split my time between DBC's Keystone +Resolver Admin UI work and the Australian Z39.50-to-SRU gateway +(unless you'd prefer to me concentrate on one of them to the exclusion +of the other?) + +------- start of forwarded message ------- +From: Juha Hakala +To: "Per M. Hansen" , Mike Taylor , + sondberg@indexdata.com, Sebastian Hammer , + Ere Maijala , + Kristiina Hormia , + Annu Jauhiainen , + Pertti Rekala , + =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tuula_Haapam?= + =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4ki?= , + Kai Ekholm , + Adam Dickmeiss , + Eeva Murtomaa , + David Dorman +Subject: IRSpy acceptance +Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:10:32 +0300 + +Hello all, + +The National Library of Finland accepts the IRSpy application, following +the successful beta testing of the software in the library. + +Our billing address is + +Helsingin yliopisto +Kansalliskirjasto / Kirjastoverkkopalvelut +PL 7138 +01051 LASKUT + +Please mention responsibility area code (in Finnish, vastuualuekoodi) +98123. + +I-D is most welcome to announce availability of this application to the +general public. Please mention in the announcement that the development +effort was a cooperative project between I-D and the national library of +Finland. Since I will start vacation next Monday I will not be able to +review the text unless it is sent tomorrow. + +IRSpy is the first implementation of the NISO draft standard +Z39.92-200X. As such it makes it possible to complete the +standardization process. My intention as the chair of the NISO working +group developing the standard is to publish the second draft of it in +August. As far as I know, development of IRSpy did not reveal any +problems in the present draft, so the second one can be published +unaltered. + +We will discuss with Ex Libris Group and WebClarity Software Inc. about +incorporation of IRSpy into, respectively, MetaLib and BookWhere. The +national library has no intention to host IRSpy ourselves in the short +run, and we will never try to run a global site, mainly due to +considerable systems expert time that would require. Moreover, the +present IRSpy database which is apparently inherited from your previous +ZSpy software) is out of date - many databases no longer are available +in the same address where they were located a few years back - and would +require a thorough manual revision. + +A decentralized network of national/regional IRSpy installations, each +concentrating on its geographical area, is the only truly feasible model +for hosting the tool (this does not rule out the possibility of +harvesting the Z39.92 data into a physical union catalogue). One issue +we will most likely discuss in the Autumn here in the national library +is whether maintenance of a national database of Information retrieval +service descriptions using Z39.92 (and IRSpy) will fit within the +national bibliographic responsibilities of the national library. As far +as I am concerned, it is more important to describe how for instance the +national bibliography database can be used for search and retrieval (and +to share this data with other libraries) than catalogue manually some +obscure grey Web literature. Google can do the latter more efficiently +than we, but Google can not and will not be able to deal efficiently +with (a large number of) databases. Due to Z39.92 and IRSpy the national +libraries will have an option to discuss how to deal with databases +within the national bibliographic context. Without a standard to steer +creation and exchange of IR service descriptions and an efficient tool +for creating those descriptions trying to extend national bibliographic +activities to "deep Web" would not have been possible. With the web +archives were are already dealing with the uppermost level of the Web, +and with Z39.92 and IRSpy we have a chance to gain access to the rest of +it. + +Best regards, + +Juha Hakala + +-- + + Juha Hakala + Director, Information Technology + + The National Library of Finland + P.O.Box 15 (Unioninkatu 36, room 503), FIN-00014 Helsinki University + Email juha.hakala@helsinki.fi, tel +358 50 382 7678 + + + + +------- end of forwarded message ------- +