The OpenURL Mapping Table

This field has a default value of "Default" and rarely should need to be changed. If you wanted to have separate mappings available based on the source of the OpenURL link, you could choose to set that up here. For example, if you want the default request that comes in from FirstSearch without a Genre to be a Book, and you want the default request that comes in from Ovid without a Genre to be an article, you can set different rfr_id settings for each one.

Note: If you decide to specify an rfr_id value for a particular source and AeonFieldName, you will also need to specify a corresponding URL_Ver value. In addition, if you specify one rfr_id value for a particular source and AeonFieldName, you must also specify that same rfr_id for all other AeonFieldNames in the table. This value is one that your OpenURL source provider can help you find should you need to make this change. An example of the value from FirstSearch is "info:sid/firstsearch.oclc.org:WorldCat" but this value also gets stored in the CitedIn field in Aeon if it is passed over OpenURL (with the info:sid/ part removed).

AeonAction can have 3 values: Replace, Substitute:genre and Substitute:rft.genre.

Replace - the Aeon field represented in the AeonFieldName field is replaced with the data from the OpenURLFieldValues field. For example, if the AeonFieldName is set to LoanEdition, the OpenURLFieldValues is set to <#rft.edition>.

Substitute:genre - This is used to set the RequestType, DocumentType, and the request form to use in Aeon. The only valid AeonFieldName is RequestType. The OpenURLFieldValues field equates to the genre returned by OpenURL (article, book, conference). This field can also have the value of "default", which matches any genre not specifically listed. The AeonValue field has three parts, separated by colons: RequestType:DocumentType:HTMLRequestPageToUse.

Substitute:rft.genre - This tag does the same thing as the prior Substitute:genre tag, but is used for OpenURL version 1.0. It is recommended that if you add a new genre, you add entries for both Substitute:genre and Substitute:rft.genre.

For AeonAction = Replace - This field corresponds to the Aeon field to store the OpenURL information that is sent via the OpenURL link.

For AeonAction = Substitute:genre or Substitute:rft.genre - This field must have the value RequestType.

For AeonAction = Replace - This field has tags that are replaced with OpenURL information from the OpenURL link. Tags are in the format <#tagname>. Other text is allowed, so in the case of an Authors Name, you can separate the last name and first name with a comma and a space. Finally, you can have separate OpenURL
values assigned to the same Aeon field. This is useful for handling different OpenURL mappings that end up going to the same Aeon fields. You can separate these with a pipe character ( | ). When Aeon sees the pipe, it interprets everything up to that point in the expression - if it has no values for the OpenURL fields up to that point in the expression, then it continues and uses the next expression. If it already has a value, then it ignores everything after the pipe. You can have as many pipe/field value combinations as you need. Some examples:

This example has 3 parts. If the first part, <#rtf.au>, has a value, then that is what is sent back to Aeon. If not, then Aeon looks at the second part: <#rft.aulast>, <#rft.aufirst> <#rft.auinitm>. If any part of that has a value, then it is used. If not, then Aeon uses the last expression: <#aulast>, <#aufirst> <#auinitm>. <#rft.au> | <#rft.aulast>, <#rft.aufirst> <#rft.auinitm> | <#aulast>, <#aufirst> <#auinitm>.

Another example of how Aeon handles both the old and new OpenURL versions together is LoanDate. If Aeon sees the new tag, <#rft.date> then it uses that, if not, it uses <#date>. <#rft.date> | <#date> In either case, if none of the OpenURL values are returned, then Aeon puts no value into the field. For AeonAction = Substitute:genre or Substitute:rft.genre - the AeonFieldName is equal to the OpenURL genre field (article, book, bookitem, conference, etc.). This can also be a value of "default" which will be the default genre.

This is only used with AeonAction = Substitute:genre or Substitute:rft:genre. The Aeon Value is actually 3 values, separated by colons. The first value is the Aeon Request Type - either Loan or Copy (for photoduplication requests). The second value is the Aeon Document Type for the request (Monograph, Serial, Archive, etc.). The third value is the Aeon HTML page in your Aeon web directory that OpenURL will use for the request (GenericRequestManuscipt.html, DefaultRequest.html, etc.). For example, if the request is for a serial, then the Aeon Value would be Loan:Serial:GenericRequestSerial.html.