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

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

David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
While I have no doubt about the functionality of this feature (I think it works
quite well), I'm sure that the code could benefit from closer scrutiny by eyes
other than mine. My code is almost entirely based off of the Z39.50
bibliographic searching, so there might be some vestigial code that I missed
which can be removed or perhaps just an optimization of the code that I have
included. 

Ideally, in the future, it would be nice if the Bib-1 attributes used for
searching could be configurable rather than hard-coded as they are at present.
They attributes represent what works for LibrariesAustralia and are a best
guess. There are more specific Bib-1 attributes out there for subjects (e.g.
geographic terms, topical terms, etc.), but these weren't supported by
LibrariesAustralia and they might not be supported by other major organizations
like OCLC, so I did not include them. I'm open to changing that though.

Jared also suggested using the QueryParser to allow the creation of
configurable attributes/indexes, and this is something I would really be
interested in doing in the future, since it would allow for different Z39.50
targets to use different Bib-1 attributes (which are often published by the
target providers). 

As the QueryParser becomes more integrated into Koha, I would like it to become
more a part of the external Z39.50 searches as well.

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