meetings

[wessam darwish]

Dear Friends,

 

Iam working on a study about Z39.50 protocol, i observe that there is not any meetings for ZIG group after 2002, is that true??

 

is this group disbanded??

 

THANKS

Wessam

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[ray denenberg-2]

After 2002 the Z39.50 Implementors Group, for the most part, became (what is now) the SRU Implementors Group.   See http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/

 

There was however a meeting in June 2005 (Chicago) which covered bot SRU and Z39.50 matters, so that could be considered the "last" ZIG meeting. 

 

There was an SRU implementors meeting this past March (2006) at The Hague (Netherlands),  see http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/march06-meeting/output.html

and the next meeting will perhaps be Spring 2007.

 

The ZIG is not disbanded, the list (this list)  is still operational though not very active. The SRU list is much more active. See http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/listserv.html

 

Ray Denenberg

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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:34 PM
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Subject: meetings

Dear Friends,

 

Iam working on a study about Z39.50 protocol, i observe that there is not any meetings for ZIG group after 2002, is that true??

 

is this group disbanded??

 

THANKS

Wessam

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[ray denenberg]

Just a quick follow-up note:  output from the June 2005 meeting is available
at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/forum-june05-output/

(That link had been broken for quite some time but it's fixed now.)

--Ray

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From: Ray Denenberg <raydenenberg@...>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:09:56 -0400
Message-Id: <55ac1u$7t0meq@...>
To: "'wessam darwish'" <wessoreem@...>, <www-zig@...>

After 2002 the Z39.50 Implementors Group, for the most part, became (what is
now) the SRU Implementors Group.   See http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/

There was however a meeting in June 2005 (Chicago) which covered bot SRU and
Z39.50 matters, so that could be considered the "last" ZIG meeting.

There was an SRU implementors meeting this past March (2006) at The Hague
(Netherlands),  see
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/march06-meeting/output.html
and the next meeting will perhaps be Spring 2007.

The ZIG is not disbanded, the list (this list)  is still operational though
not very active. The SRU list is much more active. See
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/listserv.html

Ray Denenberg

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From: www-zig-request@... [mailto:www-zig-request@...] On Behalf Of
wessam darwish
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:34 PM
To: www-zig@...
Subject: meetings


Dear Friends,

Iam working on a study about Z39.50 protocol, i observe that there is not
any meetings for ZIG group after 2002, is that true??

is this group disbanded??

THANKS

Wessam


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[wessam darwish]

 

very important,

I wish to know  is Z39.50 replaced with SRW/U/cql  and , these group (SRW/U/cql  )can be used in any system and do all the tasks which Z39.50 do it???

also,

in the ZING Information Forum
June 22-23 Output

i read,

"Some feel that the name "ZING" should be changed so not to reflect Z39.50. "

WHY??????????????????

PLZ,

ANSWER ME,

Wessam

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[Mike Taylor-10]

wessam darwish writes:
 >
 >  
 >     very important,
 >   I wish to know  is Z39.50 replaced with SRW/U/cql  and , these group (SRW/U/cql  )can be used in any system and do all the tasks which Z39.50 do it???

SRU can express all the same kinds of queries and responses as Z39.50,
but in a radically different way.  In theory, almost any application
that could be built using Z39.50 communication could instead be built
using SRU.

In practice, however, applications are constrained to use the protocol
or protocols supported by the servers they want to contact.  My
impression is that Z39.50 servers still greatly outnumber SRU servers;
and that the growth in Z39.50 server implementations is probably still
greater than that in SRU server implementations.

 >   also,
 >   in the ZING Information Forum
 > June 22-23 Output
 >   i read,
 >   "Some feel that the name "ZING" should be changed so not to reflect Z39.50. "
 >   WHY??????????????????
 >   PLZ,
 >   ANSWER ME,

Because the ZING initiative (RIP) did not work on Z39.50 itself but on
its proposed successors.  But since that name is dead now anyway, it's
a bit of a fifteen-minutes-ago issue.

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