Library Cataloging
Recently we have had two examples of trusted resources being off line for an extended time. A few weeks ago the GPO PURL server was down for several days. This meant that thousands of links in library catalogs around the globe were broken.
Now the NASA Technical Reports Server is down. It went down about a week and a half ago. No word on when it will return. It went down Monday, on Wednesday this notice appeared
It seems we have put too much reliance in trusted sites (NASA, GPO). What does this mean for mash-ups? For the Web in general? If we can't trust NASA or the GPO to keep vital services up, who can we trust? Just musing.Oct. 6 Update: The NTRS Server is still down.
- Oclc's Purl Server
News from OCLC about their PURL ServerThe PURL Server is being replaced with a new architecture. During this transition period the ability to Register, Create, or Modify records on the Server will be disabled. This transition will occur soon. When a...
- Cataloging The Net. Part 3.
A comment in the posting of part 2 of this series mentions how poorly adding Web sites has been done. That is no reason not to do it right. See the poster from the OLAC conference Building a Virtual Library Collection through Freely-Accessible Web Sites...
- Updating Bib Records
Some organizations are digitizing large collections of older materials and making them available on-line. How, if at all, are we handling updating the records in our collections given this new level of access and information? For example the NASA ADS...
- Oai
The NASA Technical Reports Server now uses the OAI-PMH. This is good news, moving towards standards. The bad news is they no longer provide access to the NASA Astrophysical Data Service. Here at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, these are important tools...
- This 'blog
The 0.91 RSS feed for this 'blog seems to be broken. It has not updated since Feb. 19. I can not find any problems with the postings in that time frame and so have decided that it is a problem with the server. UPDATE: I was right, it was the server....
Library Cataloging
Relying on Web Services
Recently we have had two examples of trusted resources being off line for an extended time. A few weeks ago the GPO PURL server was down for several days. This meant that thousands of links in library catalogs around the globe were broken.
Now the NASA Technical Reports Server is down. It went down about a week and a half ago. No word on when it will return. It went down Monday, on Wednesday this notice appeared
The NASA Technical Reports Server is currently unavailable as of September 24, 2009, due to unforeseen but required data maintenance. We apologize for the incovenience [sic]. NASA hopes to make this database available in approximately 1 week.This affects fewer libraries but in my catalog hundreds of links to the full-text stored at the server are broken.
It seems we have put too much reliance in trusted sites (NASA, GPO). What does this mean for mash-ups? For the Web in general? If we can't trust NASA or the GPO to keep vital services up, who can we trust? Just musing.Oct. 6 Update: The NTRS Server is still down.
- Oclc's Purl Server
News from OCLC about their PURL ServerThe PURL Server is being replaced with a new architecture. During this transition period the ability to Register, Create, or Modify records on the Server will be disabled. This transition will occur soon. When a...
- Cataloging The Net. Part 3.
A comment in the posting of part 2 of this series mentions how poorly adding Web sites has been done. That is no reason not to do it right. See the poster from the OLAC conference Building a Virtual Library Collection through Freely-Accessible Web Sites...
- Updating Bib Records
Some organizations are digitizing large collections of older materials and making them available on-line. How, if at all, are we handling updating the records in our collections given this new level of access and information? For example the NASA ADS...
- Oai
The NASA Technical Reports Server now uses the OAI-PMH. This is good news, moving towards standards. The bad news is they no longer provide access to the NASA Astrophysical Data Service. Here at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, these are important tools...
- This 'blog
The 0.91 RSS feed for this 'blog seems to be broken. It has not updated since Feb. 19. I can not find any problems with the postings in that time frame and so have decided that it is a problem with the server. UPDATE: I was right, it was the server....