Library Web Chic » yazproxy http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:04:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Experiments with YazProxy http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2008/05/05/experiments-with-yazproxy/ http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2008/05/05/experiments-with-yazproxy/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 19:30:07 +0000 Karen http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/?p=742 After spending the better part of the last couple weeks working with the WorldCat API to get at my library’s holdings, I realized that I’d made an incorrect assumption in my plans. I was describing what I was doing to our Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services over lunch when she interrupted me to say “you realize we don’t have OCLC all our holdings, right”. Well, no I didn’t realize that and after a conversation about WHY that isn’t the case I realized that more than ever I need an API for our catalog. The issue is that we are an Innovative site, which means no API. We do have a Z39.50 server though and I’ve been playing with using LibraryFind’s API to allow me to access certain data programmatically from that catalog.

What I really want though is an SRU/SRW server. So I started doing some digging and found out that I can use YAZProxy in this way. I successfully compiled and installed it on a test server (which for me is a big deal – anything that involves compiling makes me uneasy) and following the directions for setting it up. It appears to be running right but I’m having issues searching the UH catalog. I’m not sure if this is because I’m inexperienced with CQL and SRU or because something isn’t properly configured either in YAZProxy or our catalog’s  Z39.50 server. I’m guessing the later and need to do some troubleshooting to figure out what is wrong.

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