WorldShare Circulation release notes, October 2022

Informazioni generali

WMS Z39.50 will provide access to your library's holdings by searching global bibliographic data in WorldCat. At this time, your library's local bibliographic data and temporary items cannot be searched via Z39.50.

You may request up too 100 results per search with up to 20 results per page. Your institution will be limited to ten requests in any five-second period.

I risultati saranno sempre ordinati per rilevanza.

 Caution: The WMS Z39.50 Service is intended to support consortial borrowing, interlibrary loan, acquisition/selection, and some collection assessment workflows. This service is not intended to support cataloging activities (cannot create or update records in WMS), loading or refreshing records stored in a union catalog, or any process that needs to retrieve large record sets.

Record format options for presenting search results

WMS Z39.50 supporta le seguenti opzioni per la formattazione dei record nella risposta fornita da WMS:

• MARC21
• OPAC

In Z39.50 terminology, these formats are options for 'presenting' records to the client.

Indipendentemente dal formato specificato dal cliente, WMS fornirà i seguenti metadati per ogni risultato della ricerca:

• Bibliographic data from the global WorldCat record
• Local holdings data from your library's WorldCat local holdings records (LHRs)
• Real-time availability information from WorldShare Circulation for barcoded materials
  • Note that item status information will not be translated per your library's OPAC Statuses Grid for WorldCat Discovery. Item status will be provided as it appears in the WMS Availability API.
  • For example, if an item is in Available status in WorldShare Circulation, then Z39.50 will always provide availableNow value=1 even if the item's shelving location is treated as unavailable in WorldCat Discovery.

Please note WMS Z39.50 will not provide local bibliographic data or links to electronic resources from the WorldCat knowledge base.

Ricerche semplici

Twelve simple searches are currently supported for the WMS Z39.50 Service. A simple search only requires the client to specify the index (use attribute) and term to be searched. Simple searches are easy for clients to configure and execute. In most cases, a simple search will be sufficient to discover your holdings by standard number, title, author, format, etc.

A client may combine multiple simple and/or complex searches to form an expert query. For example, a client can search for title = Harry Potter as well as title = Harry Potter AND publication date range = 1999-2001

Fare clic qui per visualizzare ulteriori dettagli sulle ricerche semplici

Tipo di ricerca	Z39.50 Valore dell'attributo di utilizzo
Autore	1003
Data di pubblicazione	31
Formato / Tipo di materiale	1031
ISBN	7
ISSN	8
Titolo chiave	33
Parola chiave	1016
Lingua del materiale	54
Identificativo OCLC	1211
Identificatore standard	1007
Oggetto	21
Titolo	4

Ricerche complesse definite dal Profilo Bagno 2.0

More complex, precise searches are sometimes needed to help a client find exactly what a user needs or expects.

The WMS Z39.50 Service supports an additional fourteen queries to support more precise searches. These complex searches follow the guidelines set by the Bath Profile on how to form and interpret queries using bib-1 attribute types and values. To learn more about bib-1 attributes, see the documentation provided by the Library of Congress.

The Bath Profile was developed in the late 1990s to further standardize bibliographic search and retrieval behaviors via Z39.50. The last revision of the profile was released in 2004. Guidelines were provided for search syntax, record presentation format, character sets, supported searches, error handling (diagnostics) and more. Copies of the Bath Profile can be found via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

The WMS Z39.50 service supports the following complex searches as defined by the Bath Profile 2.0. These searches may be combined to form expert queries as well.

Fare clic qui per visualizzare ulteriori dettagli sulle ricerche complesse

Tipo di ricerca	Livello di conformità del bagno & ID dell'Area funzionale A	Utilizzare l'attributo	Relazione Attributo	Posizione Attributo	Attributo della struttura	Attributo troncamento	Attributo di completezza
Autore - Parola chiave	Livello 0 - 5.A.0.1	1003	3	3	2	100	1
Titolo - Parola chiave	Livello 0 - 5.A.0.1	4	3	3	2	100	1
Soggetto - Parola chiave	Livello 0 - 5.A.0.3	21	3	3	2	100	1
Qualsiasi ricerca - Parola chiave	Livello 0 - 5.A.0.4	1016	3	3	2	100	1
Autore - Corrispondenza esatta	Livello 1 - 5.A.1.2	1003	3	1	1	100	3
Titolo - Corrispondenza esatta	Livello 1 - 5.A.1.6	4	3	1	1	100	3
Oggetto - Corrispondenza esatta	Livello 1 - 5.A.1.10	21	3	1	1	100	3
Identificatore standard	Livello 1 - 5.A.14	107	3	1	1	100	1
Data di pubblicazione	Livello 1 - 5.A.15	31	1, 2, 3, 4 o 5	1	4	100	1
Titolo chiave - Parola chiave	Livello 2 - 5.A.2.1	33	3	1	2	100	1
Titolo chiave - Esatta	Livello 2 - 5.A.2.3	33	3	1	1	100	3
Formato / Tipo di materiale	Livello 2 - 5.A.2.6 & 5.A.2.7	1031	3	3	1 o 2	100	1
Ricerca per lingua - Parola chiave	Livello 2 - 5.A.2.7	54	3	3	2	100	1
Data di pubblicazione Intervallo	Livello 2 - 5.A.2.8	31	104	3	4	100	1

Getting started

No configuration is required to use the WMS Z39.50 Service.

However, any service that wishes to connect via Z39.50 will need to request an web service key (WSKey) from OCLC and agree to the terms and conditions for using this service. The key and secret will be used to authorize the client and open a connection to the service.

Each key will provide access to only one WMS institution. If a client wishes to search holdings for multiple WMS libraries, then a key must be requested and maintained for each WMS institution.

Direct your query to database Z39WMS. Regardless of your WMS data center, Z39.50 queries should be directed to:

• Host: unified.z39.50-m1.prod.oclc.org
• Porta: 210