Re: Z39.50 on the web (and in print)

Mike Taylor wrote:

> What's needed is (of course) some metadata concerning each Z39.50
> server that tells the potential user _what_ is there

You're describing Explain unless I'm mistaken.

> (e.g. what application domain it serves,

in Database-Info in either "A list of keywords for the database" or
"A decsription of the database, in human readable text".

> how many records it has)

also in Database-Info

> as well as _how_ it's accessed (attributes to use in searches, etc.)

TermList-Info/TermList-Details

(Did I miss some irony somewhere?)

Ashley.

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Received on Friday, 22 February 2002 07:20:44 UTC