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Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...)
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Sebastian Hammer |
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Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...) |
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Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:05:40 -0400 |
At 16:21 08-08-2005 +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:
Last question on this topic : zoom is claimed as something like a part of
zing.
zing being an international project, that could become a NISO standard or
something like this.
zoom is an indexdata baby it seems. what kind of -official- relations is
there between zoom & zing ?
ZOOM was a typical collaborative project within the Z39.50 community, much
as SRW was. It had folks from several countries participating, including
Mike Taylor, before he started working with us. At Index Data, we put a lot
of effort into it because some of us believed that simpler APIs were a
better solution to the supposed difficulty of implementing Z39.50 than a
whole new protocol (some would say the jury is still out on that question).
We released one of the first ZOOM implementations (the C-based YAZ/ZOOM),
and it has been used by a lot other implementors to build bindings for
other languages, but not all of them That makes some sense since YAZ is by
far the most popular Z39.50 toolkit out there, being used by around
two-thirds of implementations. The YAZ/ZOOM implementation was also the
first (and so far the only one) to support both Z39.50, SRU, and SRW under
the same API, to allow people to migrate gracefully.
So, it's not in any way an Index Data baby, even though we have probably
put a fairly big fingerprint on it. But we have been extremely heavily
involved in the development of SRW/SRU as well, as well as several other
Z39.50 profiles.
--Sebastian
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- [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Paul POULAIN, 2005/08/08
- Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Stephen Hedges, 2005/08/09
- Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Mike Taylor, 2005/08/09
- Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Joshua Ferraro, 2005/08/09
- Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Mike Taylor, 2005/08/09
- Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Paul POULAIN, 2005/08/09
- Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Mike Taylor, 2005/08/09
- Re: [Koha-zebra] Koha & zebra (continuing to try to understand...), Paul POULAIN, 2005/08/09