RSS from Z39.50
Just a quick post. For those that don’t have an XML server but do have a Z39.50 interface you may find the post below helpful. There is a link to the perl script at the bottom that will return the newest items. If your good with the interface and perl you can probably massage it to your liking. I believe I’ve seen some posts about it in various lib blogs but wanted to point out that the perl script is there.
The Paranoid Agnostic: Using RSS and Z39.50 to Find Books Your Library Doesn’t Have… Yet.
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October 4th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
[...] He also alerted me to a Perl script to proxy Z39.50 to RSS. Though for those more into PHP (like me), I’d like to point out the YAZ extension from the folks at Index Data. This extension offers a PHP interface to the YAZ toolkit that implements the Z39.50 Protocol for Information Retrieval. With this extension you can easily implement a Z39.50 origin (client) that searches or scans Z39.50 targets (servers) in parallel. [...]