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

Abstract

Provides a brief introduction to the UNIverse Project and its major objectives. Continues the overview of the international standards, softwares and systems which will enable bibliographic searching of multiple distributed library catalogues. Part 2 reviews three further areas: record syntax conversion which covers UNIMARC, SGML and Dublin Core; result set de‐duplication, covering International Standard Book Number (ISBN), International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), the Universal Standard Bibliographic Code (USBC), Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI), Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and Uniform Resource Names (URN); and multi‐lingual thesauri.

The UNIverse Project: a review of progress up to the demonstration phase

“…As the title suggests, this is an update of the information given in previous articles (Clissman et al, 1997a;1998;Murray and Pettman, 1997a;Pettman, 1998;Stroem, 1997; and conference papers (Pettman, 1996;.…”

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.…”