The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 1: Z39.50; WWW Integration with Z39.50; and Unicode

Abstract

In the first part we will cover Z39.50, World Wide Web (WWW) integration with Z39.50, and Unicode. In later parts we will cover record syntax conversion; de-duplication; ILL protocols; multimedia document delivery; authentication; and payment schemes.

The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 2: record syntax conversion, result set de‐duplication, and multilingual thesauri

“…The above needs prompted IFLA to derive the UNIMARC standard[1, 2] which is aimed at unifying the bibliographic record keeping, encouraging all national libraries (and subsequently all libraries) to adhere to this standard. However, in the EC alone, there are about ten standards of variations of the MARC format with the number rising to about 50 worldwide.…”

The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 3: inter library loans protocols; multimedia document delivery; and authentication and directory services

“…Since the project involves many different libraries and systems it will be developed using emergent open standards. In the previous papers (Clissman et al, 1997;1998) we examined the state of the art of Z39.50, WWW Integration with Z39.50, Unicode + , Record Syntax Conversion; Result-set Deduplication; and Multi-lingual Thesauri. In this part we will cover ILL protocols; multimedia document delivery; and authentication services.…”

Editing author main entry towards complying standards: study on original catalogue of Jaffna public library

“…Z39.50 is a protocol "a set of rules and procedures for the behaviour of two networked computer systems communicating in order to perform database searching and information retrieval tasks" (Clissman et al, 1997).…”