Thank you. You put me on the correct path. I went to
http://www.niso.org and realized that site should have been much more
familiar to me than it is. They have freely available many library
standards in pdf format.
There at http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_at.html were the
notes on the development of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol
Z39.83 and how it will be a freely available published standard
intended to supercede the Standard Interchange Protocol designed by 3M
for auto checkout systems. I downloaded the draft of the program which
has a .doc extension and says it is in doc format -- so it might take
me a while to figure out how to read it.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:09:34PM -0600, Josh Stompro wrote:
> I also was looking for information on the Standard Interchange
> Protocol(SIP) a while back, and couldn't find much info. I just did a
> google search and found this page,
> http://international.3m.com/intl/AU/tattler/archive/9805/9805k.html
> which says you can contact bwdunne@... to get the SIP2
> specifications. I'm not sure how it can call itself standard, it is
> pretty much 3m's baby.
>
> This page has info on an open protocol z39.83 that is like SIP.
> http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~is334/projects/Project_LIS/spotlights/z39.83.html
>
> When the library I work for recieved their first selfcheck machine,
> No one bothered to tell us that we had to pay DRA $2K for the SIP
> module until we were actually setting it up. Whoops. I don't think
> you are going to have much luck finding something for free. But
> if you do, let the list know.
The joy of standards is as long as they are followed you can write it
yourself or wait until someone else writes something that is close
enough so you just need to change a line or two.
>
> Josh Stompro
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:47:46PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> > This seems the sanest place to ask this. I've come accross some
> > commercial library software that uses SIP for authentication. So I was
> > wondering, since our OPAC does not have the module and I need it for a
> > small application, if someone can point me in the right direction.
> >
> >
> > I followed my normal approach of looking at http://sourceforge.net and
> > found there is an SIP group at http://www.vovida.org. Though it did
> > not seem that SIP bore a direct relation to library systems or that
> > library systems were a priority -- it looked more like Voice over IP
> > stuff. I also searched for SIP at search.cpan.org just in case there
> > is a PERL bundle out there, but to no avail.
> >
> >
> > What I'd like is the ability to create a dummy patron database so I
> > could check out authentication using SIP without having to actually
> > use an OPAC using SIP.
> >
> > --
> > Josh Kuperman
> > josh@...
> >
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