Z39.50 Interoperability Profile

A number of earlier documents have influenced the development of ideas associated with this Profile. These documents include the Texas Libraries Profile, upon which evolution of the Interoperability Profile has been closely based, earlier national and regional profiling efforts, and a number of documents specifically commissioned as a result of earlier teleconferences.

As a supplement to the list of documents likely to have a direct and immediate impact upon development of the Profile, this page includes a list of links to some related works of relevance, including earlier national and regional profiling efforts.

• Z39.50 Maintenance Agency Procedures: Profiles. May 1998
  URL: <http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/proced.html#profiles>
• The CENL Z39.50 Profile. Release 1.2, December 1998
  URL: <http://linnea.helsinki.fi/z3950/cenl_profile.html>
  Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) Profile for Z39.50 use in European Libraries.
• DanZIG Z39.50 Profile. March 1999
  URL: <http://www.bs.dk/danzig/profil.htm>
  A profile developed for use in Denmark
• MODELS Library Interoperability Profile Family. Release 1.3, April 1997
  URL: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/clumps/technical/zprofile/zprofile.htm>
  The MODELS Profile, developed for use in the UK.
• Virtual Union Catalogue Z39.50 Profile. Draft version 1.5, January 1998
  URL: <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/resource/vcuc/profil4.htm>
  Profile developed for use in the Virtual Canadian Union Catalogue (vCUC).
• BIB-1 profile for ONE. Version 1, January 1997
  URL: <http://www.bibsys.no/one-wg/bib-1.profile.html>
  Profile developed for the OPAC Network in Europe (ONE) project.
• Union Catalogue Profile. June 1999
  URL: <http://www.nla.gov.au/ucp/>
  
• ATS-1 Profile. January 1997
  URL: <http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/ats.html>
  The ZIG's ATS-1 Profile, upon which many of the others are based.
• Appendix 14: Z39.50 Retrieval
  URL: <ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/z3950/official/part4.pdf>
  The part of the Z39.50 standard which defines retrieval record syntaxes (like GRS-1). Anyone got a better document to point at?
• Bib-1 Attribute Set. December 1998
  URL: <http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/defns/bib1.html>
• Bib-1 Attribute Set Semantics. September 1995
  URL: <ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/z3950/defs/bib1.txt>