Final Report for The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project Phase 2: Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers
Date: December 3, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.; Thomale, Jason & Yoon, JungWon
Description: This report discusses the Z39.50 interoperability testbed project, phase 2. Abstract: The U.S. Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a National Leadership Grant in 2000 to support the research and demonstration project, 'Realizing the Vision of Networked Access to Library Resources: An Applied Research Demonstration Project to Establish and Operate a Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed.' In the project team's December 31, 2003 interim status report on the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (Z-Interop), the project team highlighted the challenges of individual libraries to participate in the Z-Interop testbed and the project team suggested an alternative method for interoperability testing for Z39.50 servers that could accommodate the limitations of individual library systems. In May, 2004, IMLS awarded an extension to the Z-Interop Project for additional research to develop and test an alternative approach for interoperability testing and also awarded approximately $50,000 in additional funding to carry out the research. The project team refers to this extension to the original award as Z-Interop Phase 2 or Z-Interop2. Research during Z-Interop2 built on the conceptual and technical infrastructure developed during the Z-Interop Project.
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Z-Interop 2 Project Search and Record Data Requirements for Z39.50 Interoperability Testing Using Radioactive MARC Records
Date: September 15, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E. & Benardino, Penelope
Description: This document is a draft version of the Z-Interop 2 project search and record data requirements for Z39.50 interoperability testing using radioactive MARC records.
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Project Work Plan Draft
Date: June 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
Description: This document details a work plan to guide the planning and execution of a new phase of the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project. In this phase, the project team will use a set of special, diagnostic MARC records to identify interoperability problems between a Z39.50 client and a Z39.50 server providing access to a database of bibliographic records supporting the search and retrieval functions of an online library catalog. The project team refers to these special, diagnostic records as radioactive MARC records. The project includes a number of separate but related activities. The structure of the work plan groups these activities into work areas, each of which describes the major activities, tasks, deliverables, timeliness, and responsibilities. The work areas are: creating MARC documentation database, developing radioactive MARC records, identifying test searches, enhancing indexing guidelines for searching, creating testing procedures and processes, validating radioactive MARC record approach for interoperability testing, and conducting interoperability testing. A number of these work areas will proceed in parallel, and there are interactions between the work areas.
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ZDoctor Report of SIRSI Indexing Policies for Interoperability Testing: Phase 1 Testing
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Moen, William E.
Description: This document discusses phase 1 of interoperability testing as part of the Z-Interop project. The ZDoctor perl program, which is proprietary software provided by Sirsi provides a way to verify the indexing policies established on the Unicorn online catalog reference implementation. ZDoctor produces a report that identifies the MARC fields and subfields that are indexed to support various Z39.50 Bib-1 Use Attributes. For Phase 1 interoperability testings, four Bath Profile searches will be used: Title search - keyword, Author search - keyword, Subject search - keyword, Any search - keyword. The indexing policies to support these searches were established according to the Z-Interop document, 'Indexing Guidelines to Support Z39.50 Profile Searches.' This document presents the output of the ZDoctor program.
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Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services July 1 through December 31, 2002
Date: January 1, 2003
Creator: Moen, William E.
Description: This document provides a status report on the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (Z-Interop) covering the period of July 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. The previous status report covered a three-month period from April 1, 2002 through June 30, 2002. This document highlights activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress on this project since the last status report.
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Ten Month Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services May 1, 2001 through March 31, 2002
Date: March 31, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.
Description: This document provides a status report on the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (Z-Interop) covering the period of May 1, 2000 through March 31, 2002. Due to a family medical emergency, the Principal Investigator was not able to complete the six-month status report that was due December 1, 2001. The Principal Investigator (PI) communicated with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staff about this situation, and had sent via email in November 2001 information about the progress of the project.
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Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services July 1 through December 31, 2004
Date: January 1, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.
Description: This document serves as an interim report on the Z39.50 interoperability testbed, Phase 2 of the Z-Interop Project. This report covers the period of July 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004. This document highlights activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress on the project since the interim report on July 1, 2004.
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Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers
Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
Description: This document describes a plan of work to develop and test an alternative approach for interoperability testing. This approach builds on the conceptual and technical infrastructure developed during the Z-Interop Project.
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An Alternative Approach to Interoperability Testing
Date: November 1, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E. & Yoon, JungWon
Description: This presentation discusses an alternative approach to interoperability testing and the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs. This research is part of Z-Interop, an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences' (IMLS) National Leadership Grant funded project.
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Analysis Logic and Procedures for Creating a Test Dataset of MARC 21 Records for the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed: Phase 1 Testing
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E. & Holmes, Haley K.
Description: This document describes the logic and procedures to create a test dataset of more than 400,000 (400K) MARC 21 records from the OCLC WorldCat database. This test dataset (hereafter referred to as the dataset) provides a controlled set of data for use in the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (hereafter referred to as Z-Interop). OCLC selected a 1% weighted sample from its WorldCat database, which contains approximately 45 million records. This document focused on the analysis procedures used to prepare for Phase 1 Testing in Spring 2002. A subsequent version of this document will address the additional procedures for Phase 2 Testing scheduled for Summer 2002.
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