- From: Simon Spero <ses@unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:40:23 -0400
- To: Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano@iccu.sbn.it>
- Cc: www-zig@w3.org
On Sep 20, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > I was trying to explain the wonders of Z39.50 to a colleague of mine, > who works as a system and network administrator here. Finally he said: > "it sounds very much like LDAP". There are some interesting similarities; both can be viewed as allowing remote searching of collections of metadata, in the same way that a catalog can sometimes be treated as a special kind of directory. LDAP is somewhat less flexible than Z39.50, though with enough custom extensions it can be made roughly equivalent. I believe Cliff Lynch wrote something comparing the two protocols back in 93? Simon
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