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[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.4-pre2 available for testing

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

I've uploaded a new prerelease to:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-0.9.4-pre2.tar.gz

This is a truly experimental release to test the new extended notes
capabilities. If you have some spare time left, please toy around with
this release and report any glitches and suggestions.

This prerelease required substantial changes in the database
layouts. It was designed to run in parallel with a 0.9.3 or 0.9.4-pre1
installation. Please make sure to read the installation instructions
below to keep your existing data accessible.

The extended notes allow to add notes to database items like records,
authors, periodicals. Each note may link to any number of these items,
and in turn e.g. each record may be attached to any number of
notes. See below for a brief description of the commands to deal with
these notes. The Perlclient module was not yet updated to make use of
this new functionality.


Bugfixes:
- fixed bug that prevented periodical entries from being updated
  properly
- RIS and risx author names are now normalized identically
- fixed segfault in bib creation for empty authorlists
- fixed refdbctl stop if refdbd runs longer than one day

Improvements:
- added support for additional RIS fields L1-L4
- added support for additional fields in the stylesheet driver files
- TEI bibliographies are now created using an XSLT stylesheet
- corporate names are preserved as such and can be exported using risx
- added switch to refdbd that refuses connections except from localhost
- added support for extended notes


Installation instructions
=========================

In order to allow this prerelease to run in parallel with a stable
0.9.3 or 0.9.4-pre1 release, the system database was renamed to refdb
(instead of refdb1). When following the installation instructions in
the manual, please use refdb instead of refdb1 when creating the
system database.

It is recommended not to "make install" before thinking twice. If you
want your existing installation to remain functional, it is necessary
to rename at least your existing copy of /usr/local/bin/refdbd (you
may later rename the new one and rename the old one back). The new
clients are supposed to work with the older servers.

To actually run two versions of refdbd in parallel, assign one of them
a port other than the default 9734. Provide this port to each client
on the command line as appropriate.

To move your existing data over to the new database layout, export all
datasets using your existing installation:

refdbc: getref -t risx -o all.xml :ID:>0

Then use addref to add the datasets to a fresh database using the new
0.9.4-pre2 installation:

refdba: createdb newdb

refdbc: addref -t risx all.xml

Extended notes instructions
===========================

dtd/xnote.dtd is a simple dtd describing an extended note. There is an
example note in examples/xnoteset.xml.

The basic idea is to provide a note (this is currently a #PCDATA
string but could be extended in future versions) along with a title,
citation key, and keywords which facilitate housekeeping. The link
elements allow to attach the note to any number of references (via
their citation keys), authors, keywords, or periodicals. Each note is
attached to the current user.

Managing notes involves these new refdbc commands (use the built-in
help for syntax hints):
addnote: adds the notes from an XML file
updatenote: updates existing notes with copies in an XML file
deletenote: removes a note and the associated links from the database
getnote: runs a query to locate notes (:ID:, :CK:, :KW:, :TI:, :JO:,
:JF:, :J1:, :J2:, :PY: are supposed to work as field specifiers)

The similarity to the equivalent *ref commands should be obvious.

In addition, the getref command allows two new field specifiers :NID:
and :NCK: to find references which are attached to a particular note
as specified by its ID or citation key.

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] Problem setting up refdb - Solved

[Olivier F. <oli...@rs...>]

Thanks for the tips/questions. The sqlite client didn't work correctly, so =
I=20
recompiled sqlite and created new databases, and that solved the problem.=20

=2D-=20
Olivier Fisette, B. Sc.

Protein Biosynthesis Research Laboratory
Centre de recherche sur la fonction, la structure
et l'ing=E9nierie des prot=E9ines (CREFSIP)
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Laval University

Office 3208, Charles-Eug=E8ne-Marchand building
Qu=E9bec (Qu=E9bec), Canada, G1K7P4

Telephone : +1 (418) 656-2131, ext. 6273
Electronic mail : oli...@rs...

[Refdb-users] Problem setting up refdb

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Olivier Fisette writes:
 > I just installed refdb on a Gentoo-GNU/Linux machine, using SQLite as the 
 > database engine. I use 0.9.4-pre1 rather than 0.9.3 since the server in the 
 > later package terminates with a segfault as soon as a client tries to 
 > connect. (I used gcc 3.2.3 for compiling both versions.)
 > 

Yes, this is the now famous
close-nonexistent-file-descriptor-when-logging-to-stderr bug. I
officially recommend to use 0.9.4-pre1 as it fixes a couple of other
bugs as well. It is more stable than 0.9.3.

 > Unfortunately, adding references to a database doesn't seem to work. Whenever 
 > I try adding the content of the example ris file provided with the package, I 
 > end up with an error (the server log is included in this message). The same 
 > error happens when I try adding the content of a ris file created by 
 > converting a PubMed Medline file.
 > 
 > Does anyone know what is causing this problem or what it relates to ?
 > 

I can only guess and ask questions:

Does the createdb command succeed?

If yes, do you get a database file in the expected directory?

Can you open that database with the command-line client sqlite and do
inserts?

Does the whichdb command succeed after selecting the database?

If possible, run all the refdb-related tests with the log level set to 7.

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] could not connect web client error

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > Well, I have no idea what's going on.  I decided to rebuild all the 
 > libdbi stuff, along with refdb itself; this time using postgre instead. 
 >   I have the same problem.
 > 

You mentioned previously that other applicatins were affected after
your terminal crash as well, so the problem seems to be neither refdb-
nor libdbi-specific. I'm not enough into OSX to tell you where to look
for more information, but there must be something like syslog that
keeps all sorts of error messages. Please check for files like
/var/log/messages or something similar. This might give a hint. I have
a vague idea that it might be related to the library search path,
i.e. a problem for the drivers to load their sqlite/postgres client
libraries.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] Problem setting up refdb

[Olivier F. <oli...@rs...>]

I just installed refdb on a Gentoo-GNU/Linux machine, using SQLite as the=20
database engine. I use 0.9.4-pre1 rather than 0.9.3 since the server in the=
=20
later package terminates with a segfault as soon as a client tries to=20
connect. (I used gcc 3.2.3 for compiling both versions.)

Unfortunately, adding references to a database doesn't seem to work. Whenev=
er=20
I try adding the content of the example ris file provided with the package,=
 I=20
end up with an error (the server log is included in this message). The same=
=20
error happens when I try adding the content of a ris file created by=20
converting a PubMed Medline file.

Does anyone know what is causing this problem or what it relates to ?

Server log :

6:pid=3D22620:Tue Oct 28 20:42:40 2003:server waiting n_max_fd=3D6
6:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:40 2003:serving client on fd 6 with protocol=
=20
version 1
6:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:40 2003:dbi is up
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:40 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:40 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:Search ID failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:Search ID failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:insert into t_refdb failed
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:failed processing dataset
4:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:keyword query error
6:pid=3D22769:Tue Oct 28 20:42:41 2003:child finished client on fd 6

=2D-=20
Olivier Fisette, B. Sc.

Protein Biosynthesis Research Laboratory
Centre de recherche sur la fonction, la structure
et l'ing=E9nierie des prot=E9ines (CREFSIP)
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Laval University

Office 3208, Charles-Eug=E8ne-Marchand building
Qu=E9bec (Qu=E9bec), Canada, G1K7P4

Telephone : +1 (418) 656-2131, ext. 6273
Electronic mail : oli...@rs...

Re: [Refdb-users] could not connect web client error

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > 
 > On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 04:24  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
 > 
 > > Come to think of it, why do you use sudo at all? If you start it as a
 > > regular application (not as a daemon), you should be able to run it
 > > from your user account and write a log to your user directory.
 > 
 > Here's what happens now:
 > 
 > % refdbd -s -e 2 -l 7 -L /Users/darcusb/refdb/refdbd.log
 > libdbi: Failed to load driver: /usr/local/lib/dbd/libsqlite.so
 > 
 >  From what I can tell, it's crashed.

I don't think so. refdbd simply gives up if it can't load the
driver. It can't do much without it.

What does /Users/darcusb/refdb/refdbd.log tell you? It should have at
least the initial libdbi test results (available drivers and such).

 > 
 > Is it possible the terminal crashing earlier could screw something like 
 > this up?  It had caused problems with my eXist installation.
 > 

I can't imagine how. But weird things do happen.

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] could not connect web client error

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > OK, something seems wrong.  If I do the above, it seems the terminal 
 > gets stuck; I get no log (I am just specifying a location in my user 
 > directory), and nothing printed to the screen.
 > 

I don't know how OSX handles these issues, but if you start refdbd
using sudo it runs in a root context. root may lack the permission to
write to your user directory. He should have the permission to write
to /var/log, though. In any case, the log should go to syslog if
refdbd can't write to the specified log file. If refdb really hangs
and there is no log output whatsoever, it's a bug.

Come to think of it, why do you use sudo at all? If you start it as a
regular application (not as a daemon), you should be able to run it
from your user account and write a log to your user directory.

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] web interface - needs more features

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > 
 > On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 07:47  AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
 > 
 > >> wouldnt it be great to have a better interface with some text fields? 
 > >> will this be done somewhen?
 > >
 > > Yes (!), and only if someone other than Markus writes it.
 > 
 > Just to be clear: I'm not meaning I don't *want* Markus to write it; 
 > just that he's busy with other things ;-)

Thanks for saving my day. This put a serious grin on my face!

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] web interface - needs more features

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 07:47  AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>> wouldnt it be great to have a better interface with some text fields? 
>> will this be done somewhen?
>
> Yes (!), and only if someone other than Markus writes it.

Just to be clear: I'm not meaning I don't *want* Markus to write it; 
just that he's busy with other things ;-)

Bruce

Re: [Refdb-users] web interface - needs more features

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 06:52  AM, Felix Dorner wrote:

> wouldnt it be great to have a better interface with some text fields? 
> will this be done somewhen?

Yes (!), and only if someone other than Markus writes it.

I don't know how to code myself, but I believe there's a need for an 
elegant web client that could be used with RefDB, but which could be 
trivially modified to work with other storage systems (say an xml db).  
Markus already wrote a perl module tailor made for this sort of thing, 
and that's one option.  Another is to port that to php and write a 
php-based client.  I suppose a third option that might be intriguing is 
to use Cocoon.

Oh, and the UI should be designed with MODS in mind; not just recreate 
Reference Manager.

Bruce

[Refdb-users] web interface - needs more features

[Felix D. <do...@ii...>]

hi,

having installed refdb, surprisingly the web interface for adding 
references only consists of a clear text window.
wouldnt it be great to have a better interface with some text fields? 
will this be done somewhen?

felix

Re: [Refdb-users] could not connect web client error

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 04:04  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> I'm afraid you'll have to provide a little more information. What
> database engine are you using currently? What does the refdbd log show
> when you use a log level of 7? If you use Postgres or MySQL,
> what do their logs show?

I can provide more info later, but the bottomline is everything was 
working fine before switching from the default Apache to v 2.  That's 
all that changed.

Bruce

[Refdb-users] could not connect web client error

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

Am in a hurry, but what would this error message typically mean when 
trying to retrieve records via the web client, and where would I go to 
fix it?

could not connect to database server
0 reference(s) retrieved

I am guessing it has something to do with some config setting 
somewhere, as I've just upgraded to a different version of Apache than 
I was previously using, which is in a different directory.  The problem 
does not *seem* to related to the httpd.conf file though, as far as I 
can tell.

Bruce

[Refdb-users] update on web client

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi Bruce,

all RefDB apps use sensible defaults if they can't load a configuration
file. If these defaults work for you, there is no need to provide a
configuration file. If you're interested, have a look at
/usr/local/etc/refdb/refdbcgirc.example. This file has all
configuration options along with explanatory comments.

regards,
Markus

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > 
 > OK, it seems that I don't have a refdbcgirc file specified.  The web 
 > client worked fine without it before, so I don't know why this should 
 > make a difference.  Does it, and if so, what should be in this file?
 > 
 > Bruce
 > 

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[Refdb-users] update on web client

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

OK, it seems that I don't have a refdbcgirc file specified.  The web 
client worked fine without it before, so I don't know why this should 
make a difference.  Does it, and if so, what should be in this file?

Bruce

[Refdb-users] chapter "documentation" in "The Art of Unix Programming"

[Marc H. <mar...@en...>]

Eric S. Raymond has finally published his "Art of Unix Programming"
book (Addison-Wesley), but it is still available for free on the web.

There is a chapter about documentation, talking about text formatting
in general and about troff, TeX, Texinfo, POD, HTML, DocBook in
particular. I think people here may find it interesting.

<http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/documentationchapter.html>

Cheers,

Marc.

[Refdb-users] php5, xml and sqlite

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

Non-programmer question:

Was poking around and ran across info on PHP5.  It's to include 
significantly improved xml support, based around libxml.  It will also 
include SQLite by default.  I wonder if this could in any way help make 
a PHP-based RefDB installation easier?

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1192/15
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1192/16

Bruce

[Refdb-users] xml and db storage

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

I've got some ideas I've been pondering, that are not necessarily 
specific to RefDB, but obviously related:

As you guys know, I've been playing with a Java-based XML database.  
I'm pretty well convinced of the advantages of being able to dump xml 
whole into a db and run random xpath queries on it.  I know, however, 
there are advantages to using traditional RDBMSs, particularly if you 
need to scale to using many users.  So, I wonder what you -- 
particularly Markus -- think of the following on adding this 
functionality to postgres?

http://www.throwingbeans.org/tech/postgresql_and_xml.html

How do I envision applications?  Well, it's an obvious way to get easy 
support for MODS into RefDB.  No need to carefully map all of the xml 
structures to tables and rows, and then back; just dump the xml in and 
suck it out when needed.

Also, I'm big on annotations, as you also know.  Whatever happens with 
our DocBook proposal, I really want to be able to have notes marked up 
in ways like this, and to be able to run queries on that marked up text:

   <note user="darcusb">
     <para>Here we have a paragraph with a:
     <blockquote reference="Doe2002c" related="Jones2000b" 
keywords="philosophy culture" start="21" stop="22">
       <para>As with the quote element, blockquote can include attached
       citation information. In this case we have the single reference
       with a page span, along with a "related" reference that links
       this quote conceptually with another reference.</para>
       <para>We also add here an <emphasis source="original">emphasis
       tag</emphasis>. The attribute here indicates whether the
       emphasis has been added by the note-taker, or was present in the
       original source.</para>
     </blockquote>
   </para>
</note>

Or this:

     <notes>
       <note>
	<para>Article deals with consequences of domestic post-9/11
	war on terror.</para>
	<para><quote keywords="anti-terrorism detention" source-name="DoeJ">By 
my count, they've detained over 5,000 foreign
	nationals in anti-terrorism-related initiatives</quote></para>
       </note>
     </notes>

In this case, the quote is from someone referenced in a newspaper 
article.  I want to note who it is they interviewed, and add a note to 
that person's record.

So imagine here a GUI-ified representation of this -- a web client:

I type "anti-terrorism" and "detention" into a keyword field.  The 
latter entry comes up, and I am presented the quote that is hot-linked 
to the name record (an xslt could render the relationships clearly).  I 
click on that, and find the person, their description, and perhaps 
contact info, as well as other records they may be referenced in.

With MODS, I could imagine this all done in XML.  You have MODS files 
for the records proper (with a .mods extension), for names (.names), 
for maybe serials (e.g. journals), and then separate files for notes.  
All of these are then cross-linked, and I can add names or notes 
independently of bibliographic records per se.

What I am wondering if with RDBMS + XML DB functionality this would be 
a good idea too?

Bruce

[Refdb-users] Fwd: xml and db storage

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

Here's something else that might be relevant?

Begin forwarded message:

> I recommend you also look at Swish-E, a full-text indexing engine that
> allows you to define 'properties' based on XML elements:
>
> http://www.swish-e.org

See here for examples...

http://www.swish-e.org/demonstrations.html

Bruce

[Refdb-users] new blog and bib project

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

It's amazing how much stuff is going on that even I am unaware of.   
Here's information about a project that aims to really push the  
boundaries of bibliographic applications by integrating it -- as a  
demonstration application -- with principles of the semantic web.  In  
essence, bibliographic management for groups becomes integrated with  
weblogging.  Fascinating stuff, and its analysis of current application  
weaknesses is good:

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/requirements-demo-1/hp- 
requirements-specification.html

BTW, the technical underpinnings for storage are -- following a number  
other similar high-profile projects like Chandler and Haystack -- based  
on RDF (storage in Berkeley DB).

http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/

Bruce

[Refdb-users] refdb gets sqlite and mysql wrong - could not connect to database server

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

P.H.Mohr writes:
 > it looks a bit odd to me that the prog tells me that Available libdbi
 > database drivers: sqlite and than at the end it talks about mysql.
 > 

This is a simple configuration issue. If you do not specify a
different database engine on the configure command line or in the
config file, refdbd will attempt to use MySQL regardless of which
drivers are available (I could build in checks, though). To use SQLite
as the database engine, edit the following line in your
/usr/local/etc/refdb/refdbdrc file to read:

dbserver        sqlite

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] refdb gets sqlite and mysql wrong - could not connect to database server

[P.H.Mohr <ph...@ke...>]

Hello,

I try to run refdb on freebsd, everything compiled fine. I installed
sqlite and I think this is where my problem lies. The prog produces the
following output when run with refdbd -s -e 0 -l 7 and refdba: viewstat :

dbi_driver_dir went to:

dbi is up using default driver dir
Available libdbi database drivers:
sqlite
application server started
use /tmp/refdbd_fifo34993 as fifo
server waiting n_max_fd=4
adding client on fd 5
server waiting n_max_fd=5
parent removing client on fd 5
server waiting n_max_fd=4
try to read from client
serving client on fd 5 with protocol version 1
012-47-59-01
send pseudo-random string to client
viewstat  -u phil
dbi is up
localhost
phil


3306
mysql

creating database connection structure failed
command processing done, finish dialog now
child finished client on fd 5
child exited with code 0
server waiting n_max_fd=4


-------------------


refdba: viewstat
could not connect to database server



---------------------

it looks a bit odd to me that the prog tells me that Available libdbi
database drivers: sqlite and than at the end it talks about mysql.

It I set sth. wrong ?

thank you for your help.

Phil


Ps: I used the standard config files:

# This is the global configuration file for refdbc
serverip        127.0.0.1
port    9734
pager   more
timeout 60
# end of refdbcrc

[Refdb-users] soap and z39.50?

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > Regarding online catalog access, am I right that the following might 
 > provide a trivially simple path to that within a refdb web client?
 > 
 > http://www.indexdata.dk/srw/
 > 

As far as I understand the description, this piece of software adds a
SOAP wrapper to an existing Z39.50 service. However, they also provide
SimpleServer (http://www.indexdata.dk/simpleserver/) which could be
used to implement a Z39.50 client (from the RefDB point of view -
actually it would be a server) which in turn could feed the SOAP
wrapper. But I'd be content with a simple Perl or PHP interface for
the time being...

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] soap and z39.50?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

Regarding online catalog access, am I right that the following might 
provide a trivially simple path to that within a refdb web client?

http://www.indexdata.dk/srw/

Bruce

[Refdb-users] hmm...koha?

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > Question:
 > 
 > If I see the following in html source, does this mean the web-client is 
 > using perl?
 > 
 > loadmodules.pl
 > 

Most likely yes.

 > If, as I assume, yes, then it seems that the open source MySQL-based 
 > Koha library application is using perl for its web client.  Is there 
 > any chance this could be useful for a new refdb web client that uses 
 > the perl module?  It is a library application, but there is, for 
 > example, an interface for entering new records.  You can either search 
 > and import, or also manually enter new MARC records (thought the UI for 
 > this is a little confusing).
 > 
 > More (with demos) at:
 > 
 > http://www.koha.org/
 > 

Thanks for the pointer, I'll have a look at it. I remember that I've
checked this one a couple of years ago (?) but never since.

regards,
Markus

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