RE: CatMe batch export

["Strouse, Mary M." <strouse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We also use the CatME workflow that Corey and Joanne described--export
records individually, then batch-update holdings.  Especially with
pre-order cataloging, the gray window is very useful. However, I would
dearly love to use batch export on occasion for large projects
(reclassification, authority file cleanup, downloading major microform
sets).  

I am suspicious that this is really a CatME problem, because what makes
CatME "talk" to Innopac is the "Networked OCLC interactive interface"
that sits on our Innopac servers.  Surely the III interface uses OML
(OCLC Macro Language) to create the export confirmation dialog box
within Passport and CatME in the first place?  And why would CatME
bother to build a "batch" export capability that requires operator
intervention after every export?  

I believe the real problem is that III's "interactive" interface was
written in the heyday of Passport, before CatME and its batch processing
came to the fore.  So III hasn't marketed separate batch and interactive
versions of the network interface, as we had with the serial interfaces.

But now, I think there's a market. Batch exporting is proving so popular
that even once CORC takes over the world, there will probably still be a
client-side batch capability.  III would need to create a "batch"
version of the networked interface which didn't open a dialog box (But,
ideally, stored the information in a report or file within Innopac).
The export interface would need to run on a different port of the
Innopac server.  I, at least, would want to have both interfaces, so I
could point to one or the other from CatME from different workstations
or at different times. 

So, how much of a market would there be?

Mary

Mary M. Strouse
Head of Technical Services
Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
(202) 319-5547   strouse@xxxxxxxxxx
http://columbo.law.cua.edu




> -----Original Message-----
> From: CSeeman@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:CSeeman@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:31 PM
> To: early@xxxxxxxxxx; innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: CatMe batch export
> 
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> 
> It was my understanding (from my days on the other side of the 800
> number) that this limitation was caused by the way that OCLC 
> exports to
> the system.  So as we tried to troubleshoot what was happening, it
> appeared that the problem was coming from their side, not 
> III.  I am not
> sure if this is something that can be looked at down the 
> road, or if it
> just the way that it is.  

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