From the Joint Information Systems Committee web pages describing its
information architecture
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*Why does Z39.50 feature in the JISC IE architecture? Isn't Z39.50 a bit
dated as a technology?*
It depends what you mean by dated? Yes, Z39.50 has been around a
long time. One could argue that makes it /tried and tested/ rather
than /dated/ :-) Furthermore, Z39.50 is still under active
development. For example, the Bath Profile is maintained by the Bath
Profile Maintenance Agency.
Most importantly though, at the time of writing, Z39.50 is the only
serious candidate distributed search protocol in widespread use on
the Internet.
(http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/faq/general/)
Tony
Tyler Bell wrote:
>(2) OAI is another solution out of the library community (insert comment
>here). It is largely a replacement for Z39.50. It defaults to Dublin
>Core as standard, but can harvest XML in any schema, including MIDAS XML.
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