Interoperability

• Interoperability and metadata
• Interoperability Guidelines
• WHOIS++, centroids, Cataloguing Interoperability Protocol
• Cataloguing rules
• Metadata registry
• RECCI: ROADS Evaluation of Cataloguing with Connection to Interoperability
• Cross searching demonstrators
• Issues related to gateways (result set management, equivalencing fields, etc.)
• Gateway demonstrators
• ROADS and the Dublin Core

ROADS and Z39.50

• Searching ROADS servers using Z39.50 clients
  • Using Zebra to provide Z39.50 access to ROADS servers
  • Z39.50 to WHOIS++ gateway (ZEXI)
• Integrating Z39.50 based services with ROADS cross searching
  • WHOIS++ to Z39.50 gateway

Related Initiatives

• JISC funded pilot schemes: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/background/
  pressreleases/summary2.html>

  A variety of schemes are being established in the UK as part of JISC's development activity. These cover a variety of distributed services and are divided into three areas:

  • hybrid library (providing access to electronic and print-based resources)
  • geographic or subject based services ('clumps' based on a subject area or geographic region)
  • cross-domain services (based on different curatorial traditions)
• Stanford Digital Library: <URL:http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/>

  Equivalencing field level searching across heteregeneous distributed databases

  e.g. STARTS: Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Search and Retrieval: <URL:http://www-db.stanford.edu/~gravano/starts_home.html>

• Committee on Insitutional Cooperation (CIC) study of Z39.50 appliactions: <URL:http://NTX2.cso.uiuc.edu/cic/news/z39.html>

• Virtual Canadian Union Catalog (vCuc): <URL:http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/resource/vcuc/>
• Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS): <URL:http://ahds.ac.uk/>
• TERENA task force on Cooperative Hierarchical Indexing Coordination (TF-CHIC): <URL:http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-chic/>

Maintained by Rachel Heery and Michael Day of the UKOLN Metadata Group.
Last updated: 19-Sep-1998