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Web Z: A Non-Programmers
Perspective
Sandy Card
State University of New York at Binghamton
March 23, 1999
The Goals
• Provide patrons with a web-based
version of our online catalog.
• Provide patrons with a means to
request materials from our remote
storage facility.
• Provide a vehicle for ILL requests.
HOWEVER
• The product must provide no less
information than our character based
version.
The Timeline
• OCLC training -- October 27-28, 1998
• WebZ loaded in test--November 3,
1998--NT Server 4.0
• Deadline for WebZ to go live-- Jan.
25, 1999 (8:00--start of Spring
semester)
• Implementation--Jan. 25, 1999 (7:55
a.m.)
The Team
Andy Perry
Co-ordinator
Librarian
Barbara Harris-Pruitt
ini and html
Programmer
Paul Rogers
java
Programmer
Sandy Card
MARC
Librarian
Assumptions
• Our most important database is our
own NOTIS catalog
• If a change would enhance NOTIS
but not other databases, that would
be acceptable
What we started with:
NOTIS site
release 6.5
At present we have 39 databases--6 catalog based and
33 article based
WebZ--Out of the box:
Sample monographic record
WebZ--Out of the box - sample serial record
Needs Assessment
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What are your formatting needs
Learn file structure
Basic understanding of Java code
Develop patience or sense of humor
Tools for needs assessment
WinGrep
TextPad
dumpgadget
Dumpgadget supplied formatting
needs by showing what fields that
were provided by our Z39.50 server
were not showing in our display
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Series not showing, nor hot
856 not hot
No 780 or 785 fields
Subject headings search by subdivision
Lack of specifically labeled notes fields
7xx fields not separate from authors
No ability to separate fields out by indicator
WinGrep--shows file structure
WebZ File Structure
MarcCatalogFmt
MarcArticleFmt
MarcCatalogFullFmt
MarcArticleFullFmt
MarcCatalogBriefFmt
MarcArticleBriefFmt
MarcCatalogBookmarkFmt MarcArticleBookmarkFmt
plus some specific structures for databases:
MarcPapersFrst…..
MarcContentsFrst…..
TextPad
• Handles multiples files
• Text editor
• Complies the java files--easier than
using the jdk
To make changes to the MarcCatalogFmt.java
files
• Decide which of the fields that are given behaves most like
the field you need included.
• Ex. To make the 785 show as “continued by” you need to
find a field that matches the requirements.
– Is repeatable
– Not hot
– Has a line break
• This leaves out 1xx, 245, 250, 260, 300, 4xx(didn’t want to
mess with them), 6xx (or them either)
• The closest field that behaves like a 785 is the 505 contents
note, as odd as this seems
Once you have chosen a field to replicate,
you need to replace every instance of it in
the file. For example replace each
instance of “contents” with “continues”.
It is critical that you are consistent in your
usage of spelling and capitalization.
Change the MARC tags wherever in the
file they appear, for ex. change the 505 in
contents to a 780 in continues, changing
the using the right subfields
Using TextPad’s
search command,
find each instance of
whatever field you
have chosen to
replace.
There are 2 major
sections to change
in the
MarcCatalogFmt.java
file
Defining the
variable ...
and
Creating
the method
Part of method
missing due to
space limitations
You also need to change the label
of the field in the method
“labelmaker” to whatever is
appropriate for your new field.
The Addcontinues method is then
added to the MarcCatalogFullFmt.java
file
And to the
MarcCatalogBookmarkFullFmt
Other changes may
need to be made to a
method such as the
problem we had with
serials, where for us, a
8xx field would not
show unless there was
also a 440. Since
8xx’s are paired with
490’s we did not have
most series showing.
Changing the method
to reflect or instead of
and solved this
problem.
We had solved most of our problems,
even though we had hit a wall with our
biggest problem--the subject heading
redirected search. We had one week
left and were ready to put our system
into production when ….
Enter Tim and UMich’s version of the
MarcCatalogFmt files.
Tim very generously provided us with a
copy of his files to try and they proved very
easy to work with--especially for a nonprogrammer.
We made a few changes to Tim’s files.
Added new fields for:
590 -- Local notes (was in “notes”)
538 -- Technical notes (was in “notes”)
550 -- Issuing body notes (was in
“notes”
775 -- Other editions available
776 -- Issued in other form
242 -- Translated title
Added some very local fields we wanted:
852 -- Other holdings
866 -- Library has
952 -- RLIN holdings
With our NOTIS system we had trouble
with redirected author searches.
People with no dates and really dead
people (those with closed dates) were
fine.
People with open dates caused our
system to return a no hits result.
We were able to easily correct this by
simply making the |d in the field not
hot.
This is easily accomplished by simply
putting a colon before the delimiter that
you want to exclude from the redirect.
We also chose to make series hot links.
This became a problem with attributes and
we were able to make the title and corporate
series into links, but not the name series.
We split the series out and ….
Monographic record on NOTIS
WebZ--Out of the box - sample serial record
Serial
record
on
NOTIS
Some fields
removed for
viewing
WorldCat subject headings
from dumpgadget -- note multiple |a in
field
Need to set up it’s own package using
the oclc files
Create new packages
edu > suny > fmt > obi
edu > worldcat > fmt > obi
Change the methods called in the java
files
And you’re done
MarcArticleFmt files
Databases using MarcArticleFmt files
were adequate for our purposes.
Databases don’t use the complicated
MARC description that Catalog records
use.
Our database files do not use LC
headings
Changes
• Add 300 tag for pages
• finished writing issuing body tag
• changed 260 tag back to one line
(published) rather than place,
publisher, year
• added 945’s to GPO monthly catalog
• add 590 local notes
• change 690 to local subject heading
• added ERIC no.
945’s (Gov. Info:) -- GPO Monthly Catalog
Fields:
Published
Local subject(s)