[Koha-bugs] [Bug 10096] New: Add a Z39.50 interface for authority searching

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10096

            Bug ID: 10096
           Summary: Add a Z39.50 interface for authority searching
    Classification: Unclassified
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: new feature
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Z39.50 / SRU / OpenSearch Servers
          Assignee: gmcharlt at gmail.com
          Reporter: dcook at prosentient.com.au
                CC: m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl

Currently, Koha provides Z39.50 searching for bibliographic records but not for
authority records.

I propose that we create another Z39.50 search interface specifically targeted
at searching authority record databases. While they are far less common, they
are around:

http://www.loc.gov/z3950/lcserver.html (I think this is just a test server. Not
sure if they provide access to their production server. Some LOC web sites say
no but they might be outdated. OCLC says they provide access to LOC authorities
via their service.)

http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/services/search/z3950/database-connection-details/#la_authorities

OCLC also provides Z39.50 access to authority files, although like
LibrariesAustralia you need to have a login to access them (even the test
server, although you can apparently get a login by contacting their support
people).
https://www.oclc.org/support/services/z3950/documentation/config_guide.en.html.

Koha can also be used as a public facing Z39.50 authority server, so the
possibility to share authority records is out there!

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I think this could be a very useful feature, since there are already lots of
authority records out there. This will save people manually creating authority
records (which can result in duplicated labour in numerous libraries or
authority records of varying quality) or from going into another library
catalogue (such as LoC) and manually downloading them then getting Koha
sysadmins to upload them via the commandline.

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