Z3950 Single Stream from a single source?

k-int — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:24:18 +0000

Mr Wallis, I'm surprised that you would suggest such a thing? Z9.50 says nothing about it's source, and it's completely agnostic about it's payload. Indeed, we've found that actually, Z39.50 is far superior to SRW for meta-search because the database abstraction allows source selection beyond the scope of what SRW will allow (Although we did argue long and hard in the definition of SRW about the presence of a list if databases to search). The bigger problem is with the lack of static identifiers coming back from all search services. Once known items have stable identifiers, augmentation becomes possible on many different levels, and not just within one host container. Indeed, orchestration is the key issue, the question then becomes, should the mechanism of that orchestration belong to the community or a single vendor?

Video from a conference presentation on Library APIs

Paul Miller — Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:49:46 +0000

Richard Wallis presented at the code4lib conference in Athens, Georgia, last week, talking to the title "Library APIs abound". Read on for a link to his slides... and a video of the whole presentation.

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Z3950 Single Stream from a single source?

Video from a conference presentation on Library APIs