DiscoverItem

DiscoverItem is a suite of web services and includes the following functionality:

• Search to execute a federated search against a configured set of Z39.50 catalogs & targets and retrieve a set of de-duplicated bibliographic records. 
• Record to retrieve a single, de-duplicated (or merged) bibliographic record, which is part of the result set of an active search.
• Search / Facet to retrieve the facets (date, medium, author and subject) associated with the records returned from an active DiscoverItem - Search 

Results may be used in conjunction with other Relais web services, for example:

• Requestability to determine whether a title retrieved is requestable from one or more consortium locations or available locally; 
• AddRequest to add requests to RelaisD2D.

Two potential models for implementation

• User-facing search and display of fulfillment options.
• 'Offline' search and creation of a list of requestable locations.