RE: ZNG - what is the long-range objective?

Ralph

i would agree with you and even go a little further - i could see zng
replacing the current generation z39.50 in traditional library
applications at some point - it depends on how widely it gets adopted and
the types of information it enables those applicatiosn to get to - if oclc
ues it and it also allows an ils to get other non traditional information
sources - a case can be made for it - at some point everyone is going to
need to decide how long they want to keep the old systems around - even
though we already have it deployed we do update our systems and eventually
it may become baggage we dont want to (or cant afford to ) maintain and
keep updated 

mark


On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, LeVan,Ralph wrote:

> Yes and no.
> 
> The library community has already adopted BER/TCP based z39.50, so there is
> no good reason for them to switch.  I am certainly hoping the ZNG is the
> flavor of Z39.50 that the rest of the world will find flavorful.
> 
> But, I definitely want to use ZNG internally to replace our Z39.50 server.
> Building robust servers is HARD and we still have unexplained socket
> failures that leave application chewing up CPU's.  I want to get out of the
> server business and write code that bolts on to someone else's robust
> server.  Servlets seems to be the right architecture to do that.  ZNG will
> make my life easier doing internal B2B stuff.  If I can talk the rest of you
> into using it eventually, then it will make my like a lot easier.
> 
> Ralph
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leif Andresen [mailto:LEA@BS.DK]
> > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:20 AM
> > To: www-zig@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: ZNG - what is the long-range objective?
> > 
> > 
> > Relation to OpenURL:
> > The scope of OpenURL is a search for one item = linking. You 
> > can see linking
> > a as special case of searching. And OpenURL is used for 
> > searching (refer to
> > Metalib of Exlibris). And there are overlap of access point to
> > Bath-profile/ZNG. 
> > 
> > Long-range objective:
> > Let me take my question in an other wording:
> > 
> >  - The ZNG proposal is not for library-system to library-system
> > communication
> >    So: ZNG will not replace Z39.50 for system-to-system use?
> > 
> > Ray and others: Yes or no?
> > 
> > best regards
> > Leif Andresen
> > 
> >  
> > 
> 
>

Received on Friday, 28 September 2001 16:00:00 UTC