ZACK History

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April 2016

fix character set for unicode usmarc targets

March 2016

Update GBV target: iso5426 and cp850 character set support
fix search history and livecovers

Mar 2010

Update targets voeb, oebv

Sep 2008

Added barcode.
Fix German <-> English translations.

Aug 2008

Added database: AbeBooks - used books.

June 2008

New web service ZackTOC - books with fulltext. ZackTOC is a web service for finding table of contents of books. For more information, read the ZackTOC help page.

May 2008

Presentation of ZACK at the BibCamp - Potsdam/Berlin

Feb 2008

Presentation of ZACK at the German Perl Workshop 10.0

Aug 2007

Microformat book supported by ZACK: A Microformat is a way of adding simple semantic meaning to human-readable content which is otherwise, from a machine's point of view, just plain text. They allow data items such as events, contact details or locations, on HTML web pages, to be meaningfully detected and the information in them to be extracted by software, and indexed, searched for, saved or cross-referenced, so that it can be reused or combined. [wikipedia]

May 2007

After duplication check print a list of years and authors, e.g.
```
Year: 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1991 (1)
Author: Willenborg, Josef (5), Schneider, Wolfram (1), Penke, Kurt (1), 
        Lohrum, Stefan (1), Willenborg (1), Scharna, Dieter (1)
```
The year is sorted by reverse order, newest first. The authors are sorted by most common author first. The authors are clickable links.

Feb 2007

xISBN supplies ISBNs associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs. xISBN is now integrated into ZACK. If you click on a record, you will get a list of associated editions and printings if available. Examples for associated editions are: paperback, hardcover, VHS, DVD and translations.
Better performance with caching

Dec 2006

ZACK search query statistic in a tagcloud

Nov 2006

ZACK Search Plugins for Firefox & IE 7

Aug 2006

highlight search queries

May 2006

update ZACK bookmaps to new google maps API 2.x with better maps.

Apr 2006

new design for ZACK homepage.

Feb 2006

new service ZACK cover search - a live search with book covers.
Hessischer Bibliotheksverbund supports MAB2 records.

Dec 2005

Added database: Verbundkatalog Öffentlicher Bibliotheken (ÖVK) / Union Catalogue for Public Libraries

Nov 2005

new service ZACK bookmaps: find, locate and loan a book with google maps
new service a spell checker: for author names - a bibliographic dictionary

Dec 2004

Added database: Verbundkatalog - Retro VK

Nov 2004

new Z39.50 server for HBZ

Oct 2004

ZACK is now 5 years online!

Jul 2004

The database of Bayrischer Bibliotheksverbund is stale now and will be no longer updated.

Jan 2004

ZACK II geht beim KOBV in den Routinebetrieb. Gegenueber seiner Vorgaengerversion bietet ZACK II eine Vielzahl neuer Funktionen, u.a. einen Warenkorb zum Sammeln mehrerer Datensaetze und eine eingebaute Formatkonvertierung.

May 2003

ZACK Workshop: Neue Dienste - Chancen und Perspektiven. 12.Mai.2003

Mar 2003

Added database: Universität der Künste Berlin

Dec 2002

Paper about ZACK: Fremddatennutzung im KOBV: Eine Evaluation vom Mai / Juni 2002

May 2002

Added database: RWTH Aachen ZentralerZentraler Institutskatalog

März 2002

Added database: ~~Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften~~

October 2001

Added database: Oesterreichischer Bibliothekenverbund
Added database: Freie Universität Berlin
Added database: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Added database: Technische Universität Berlin
Added database: Hessischer Bibliotheksverbund
Added database: Staatsbibliothek Berlin
Added database: ~~Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Potsdam~~

September 2001

ZACK now send a Content Disposition Header field (see RFC 2183) to save data on local disk

August 2001

Added links to the internet search engine google and the online bookshop Lehmanns from every MAB2 record.
Improve the menu generator: now you can save the pre-selected databases.