[WEB4LIB] Re: Z39.50

[Mary Anne Doyle]

I have heard much about the Z39.50 Bath Profile.  Will its
implementation improve Z39.50 Searching and Retrieval?
Will it make the its use more effective?

Mary Anne
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> From: Walt_Crawford at notes.rlg.org
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> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:35 AM
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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Z39.50
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> I'm a little taken aback by that too. Let's see. ProCite and EndNote
>both
> embed Z39.50 clients. Unless I'm mistaken (quite possible), most
>good
> online catalogs can serve as Z39.50 clients or Z39.50 servers.
>Z39.50
> searching is fundamental to ISO-standard ILL. I know UC's statewide
>system
> makes heavy use of Z39.50, as do quite a few other systems. Zephyr,
>RLG's
> Z39.50 server, does hundreds of thousands of Z39.50 searches each
>month
> (including 200,000 or more to our own Z39.50 clients, since Eureka
>is
> entirely based on Z39.50). I'd bet that OCLC serves millions of
>Z39.50
> searches each month, to its own licensed clients and others.
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> What has changed, at least hereabouts, is the former assumption that
>Z39.50
> would replace everything else--that, for example, we shouldn't
>bother
> improving our Web-based search clients because every institution
>would
> design its own interface using Z39.50. In that sense, Z39.50 has
>rolled
> back from the Universal Heir Presumptive to one strong player.
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> If there are emerging "standards" that will complement Z39.50 (or,
>equally
> well, act as part of Z39.50), they'll be metadata "standards" (e.g.
>Dublin
> Core).
> -walt crawford, RLG (but of course not speaking on RLG's behalf)-
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> I heard one comment today --- "Z39.50, as a search and retrieval
>protocol
> used widely among library OPACs, is dying".  I was taken aback.
>But, to
> keep my mind open, I would like to ask for your comments on this.
>If you
> do
> agree to this, what is the emerging standard?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Kitty Au
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