- From: Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano@iccu.sbn.it>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:43:26 +0200
- To: www-zig@w3.org
Matthew J. Dovey wrote: > The essential difference is that > > In Z39.50 the query syntax is separate and independent from the results > format, and having performed a given query you could ask for different > multiple record syntaxes from the resultant set of results. > > In LDAP the LDAP schema defines both query points and results format. > > It is plausible to build LDAP/Z3950 gateways (I did once....) if you are > so inclined > > Matthew Another difference that comes to my mind is that LDAP allows to organize hierachies of entities, if I'm not much in error. At the moment I cannot figure out whether this could be useful in bibliographic searches or not... As for the paper by Cliff Lynch suggested by Simon, I've been googling aroung, but I could find it. If someone has an exact reference I would appreciate that very much. Also, thank you all for your interesting answers. Best regards. -- Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D. ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico Viale Castro Pretorio 105, Rome - ITALY Tel. +39064989509, Fax +39064059302
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