Talis Developer Network - The Twenty Minute Union Catalogue - Comments

Holdings Store

Richard Wallis — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:50:15 +0100

Hi Phil & Michael,

Being a 'concept-car' Cenote is excellent at both demonstrating possibilities and highlighting the fact that it is not a production system. Although the stores it uses are hosted in the live Platform, the processes used to maintain the data in those stores are snapshots for demonstration purposes. The consequences of this are being highlighted by your comments in this thread.

There is work underway to build the processes for the management of data flows into and between data stores in a way that will benefit all the applications that load data in to and consume the services provided by Platform stores.

Once these processes are in place, there will be an improvement in the consistence and currency of holdings data.

Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist - Talis

MIA or AWOL?

michael stead — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:09:26 +0100

I've noticed this as well.

See these Cenote records with no Bolton holdings data: Mind Gym (although the record seems wrong anyway); a graphic novel; another graphic novel; and a seminal text on feline location.

Yet they're definitely in Prism: here; here; here; and here. I've seen copies of each of these books (and I heartily recommend the last one), so I know they exist. What's more, we've had them a while so it's not just a case of our holdings data in Source/Bigfoot lagging too far behind reality.

Any ideas?

Michael Stead
e-Resources Librarian
Bolton Libraries

Holdings missing?

Fulup — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:05:25 +0100

Dear Richard,
This item is in De Montfort University's stock, so perhaps we should talk about whether you are able to collect updates on a regular basis from us.

Regards,
Phil Adams

Not held in contributing libraries

Richard Wallis — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:33:38 +0100

Hi Phil,

The reason you are getting zero results is that none of the contributing UK Libraries have registered as having stock, when the store was created.

Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist - Talis

Holding store

Fulup — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:51:28 +0100

I was expecting more positive results for a URL like:

http://api.talis.com/stores/holdings/items?query=0192853589&max=10&offset=0&sort=&xsl=&content-type=

Am I looking in the right place/

Regards,
Phil Adams

Possibly a bug

Ian Davis — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:06:40 +0100

Hi Phil,

That looks like a small bug in that service. We recently changed the URLs of some services to remove the /bf part. All the services should redirect to the new URLs but it looks like there's a problem with this one. If you try the following:

http://api.talis.com/stores/holdings/services/augment?data-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.talis.com%2Fbf%2Fstores%2Fukbib%2Fitems%3Fquery%3Domoo%26offset%3D0

Then it should work.

Note I removed the /bf from the service URL. Not all the documentation has caught up unfortunately.

I'll file this as a bug to be fixed.

Thanks for tracking this down.

Ian

Error message

Fulup — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:25:31 +0100

I tried this and came up with a request;
http://api.talis.com/bf/stores/holdings/services/augment?data-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.talis.com%2Fbf%2Fstores%2Fukbib%2Fitems%3Fquery%3Domoo%26offset%3D0

This returns an error message:
data-uri parameter invalid http%3A%2F%2Fapi.talis.com%2Fbf%2Fstores%2Fukbib%2Fitems%3Fquery%3Domoo%26offset%3D0

Am I missing something?

Regards,
Phil Adams

Avi file seems to be out of sync :-/

Banta — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:59:57 +0100

Great Presentation, feel like building my own catalog now.

- The AVI video file appears to be out of sync the last few minutes though...

The Twenty Minute Union Catalogue

Paul Miller — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:01:49 +0000

In this video, Rob Styles demonstrates the power of the Talis Platform, and the ease with which shared library holdings can be combined to cost-effectively deliver a new generation of union catalogue.