Document (#10739)

Author
Sijtsma, A.V.
Title
¬The MECANO system : a mechanism of automatic comparison of CD-ROM answers with OPACs
Source
Information superhighway: the role of librarians, information scientists, and intermediaries. Festschrift in honor of Frederick Wilfred Lancaster. 17th International Essen Symposium, 24.-27.10.1994. Ed. A.H. Helal et al
Imprint
Essen : Universitätsbibliothek
Year
1995
Pages
S.117-123
Series
Publications of Essen University Library; 18
Abstract
MECANO is a system that tries to bridge the gap between searching for articles on CD-ROM and finding the actual journals in an OPAC. It's aim is to improve the quality of service offered by libraries. End-users use databases supplied on CD-ROM because OPACs do not store information about the content of an article/book. The databases on CD-ROM, however, cannot contain information about the availability of the journals. After searching the databases on CD-ROM a user manually has to look them up in the OPAC. This can be a time-consuming and confusing process for an unskilled end-user. MECANO tries to automate this process as much as possible by using the results of the CD-ROM search to find the holdings of the journals(s) in an OPAC. Unlike other systems MECANO is independent of the CD-ROM and the OPAC used. To achieve this kind of flexibility MECANO is built as an open system and relies on well-known standards, such as Z39.50 an USMARC. The paper describes the architecture of MECANO
Object
MECANO

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