[Blacklight-development] holdings in batch for locations, call numbers

[Jonathan Rochkind]

The UVa blacklight is putting holdings in the MARC bib, and indexing 
those, and it does allow you to limit by location, yes.

I am planning on doing the same.

Serials holdings pose a special challenge though, that I don't thin UVa 
is dealing with yet.  It's not an insurmountable challenge, but it's 
tricky, largely because I don't think you can generally put serials 
holdings in a marc bib, at least not without loss of meaning. 

I don't think anyone ("anyone" basically being UVa; nobody else is any 
more than playing with Blacklight yet) is actually indexing based on 
both bib and MARC Holding records. Right now the indexer only looks at 
MARC Bib records, but in UVa's case they do include (non-serial) 
location and call number information.

Jonathan

Naomi Dushay wrote:
> Has anyone implemented batch loading of information from holdings 
> records?  I believe I've heard of some sites putting specific holdings 
> fields into particular MARC bib fields.  Any other approaches in use 
> or underway or thought about?
>
> Reason:
>
> We've had interest here in having facets for both library locations 
> (there are about 20 physical library locations on campus) and for call 
> numbers (presumably first letter major divisions and second letter 
> subdivisions - we use LC).  I suspect we will also want to browse by 
> full call number within and across physical locations.
>
> Clearly, to do the above, we must batch load our locations and call 
> numbers.  This information, as I understand it, resides in our 
> item/holdings records, not our bib records.
>
> So we need a way to batch load holdings information -- at least for 
> location and call number.  We would want to continue to provide 
> availability, due date and possibly reserve information with a 
> realtime query.
>
>
> Naomi Dushay
> ndushay at stanford.edu
>
>
>
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Jonathan Rochkind
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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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