Dutch ISBN search template for Tellico.

[Regis Boudin]

Hi,

Robby is on holidays, so I will try to help a bit :)

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 18:33 +0100, Frits Jager wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm using Tellico for some time now for my DVD movie collection.
> 
> Now I want to store my books in the same program.
> Since I live in the Netherlands, I would like the possibility that
> Tellico can search the Dutch ISBN database.
> 
> A lot of (of course Dutch) books are not found with the current ISBN
> search template which the program uses now.
> 
> I'm not sure where the dutch ISBN database is located on the web,
> but I managed to find the next site which might clarify things.
> " http://www.isbn-international.org/en/agencies/netherlands.html "

Well, this gives some nice informations about the format for the Dutch
ISBN numbers, but not much more unfortunately.

> The (Windows) program "Book Collector" (http://www.collectorz.com/book/)
> apparently already uses a dutch ISBN search template.
> Almost every book I search for are found in this ISBN database.

It probably just has a good list of databases set up...

> Is there already an Dutch ISBN search template for Tellico, or has this to
> be programmed from scratch ?
> 
> Maybe a possibllity could be to modify an already existing search template ?
> How difficult is this ? (I'm not a programmer.)
> (I'm not sure if this is legal, though.)

After a little bit of searching, I just found a z39.50 server which
seems to have some informations available.

In the properties, at the Data Sources section, add a source with the
following parameters :
Host : www.agralin.nl
Port : 210
Database : clcz3950
Character set : marc8
Format : USMARC

If it doesn't provide all you need, you will have to search for a more
complete z39.50 server.

HTH,

Regis