Links to Z39.50 resources

• Z39.50 Maintenance Agency at the Library of Congress
  The official source for all Z39.50 documentation. It also maintains the useful Register of Implementors, information about the Z39.50 Implementors Group (ZIG) and a collection of papers.
  
  
• Z39.50 Resources
  Maintained by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol.
  
  
• Z39.50 resources at the National Library of Canada
  The National Library of Canada maintains a set of useful resources as part of its Virtual Canadian Union Catalogue (vCuc) project.
  
  
• Z39.50 archive in Helsinki
  This very useful mirrored collection is a lot quicker for Europeans to access than the (mostly North American) originating sites. It contains among other things a mirror of the Z39.50 standard itself and all the main public domain Z39.50 software. Files are updated once a week.
  
  
• Index Data
  Index Data is a Danish consulting and software development company which specialises in Z39.50. They have been involved in several European projects such as EUROPAGATE and ARCA. They produce YAZ (Yet Another Z39.50 Toolkit) and Zebra (a free-text indexing and retrieval engine with a Z39.50 front end
  
  
• CNIDR
  The Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval carries out research, development, coordination and promotional activities in the area of NIDR software applications, including WWW and Z39.50. Their Isite software package includes Z39.50 tools
  
  
• Z39.50 client survey
  A useful review of Z39.50 clients (now both public domain and commercial) carried out by Andrew Wood in Australia, including Bookwhere?, CanSearch, GeoPac, IrTcl (YAZ), Isite, VIZION Pro, Willow, WinPAC, ZNavigator and others.
  
  
• Z39.50 to Web gateway survey
  This supplements the above client survey and covers Isite, GeoWeb, the Stanford Gateway, WebCAT and WebPAC.

Some articles/papers

• Z39.50: Part 1- an overview and Z39.50: Part 2 - Technical Details (Peter Evans). In Biblio Tech Review (both parts updated April 1999).
  
  
• Connecting and sharing: the emerging role of Z39.50 in library networks (Andrew Wells, Judith Pearce, Linda Groom and Bronwyn Lee, National Library of Australia). Presented at the VALA Conference, Melbourne, 28-30 January 1998.
  
  
• Towards distributed library systems: Z39.50 in a European context (Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell and John Kirriemuir, UKOLN). Article published in Program, 30 (1), January 1996.
  
  
• The Z39.50 information retrieval standard - Part I: a strategic view of its past, present and future (Clifford A. Lynch), April 1997. Article published in D-Lib Magazine (UKOLN mirror site).
  
  
• EC Supported Z39.50 Projects (Gordon Pedersen, Expert to DGXIII, Fischer & Lorenz). Presented at the 63rd IFLA General Conference, 31 August - 5 September 1997.
  
  
• Z39.50 recent developments and future prospects (Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress). Presented at the Z39.50 seminar at the Royal Library of Belgium, September 1996.
  
  
• Z39.50 and the World Wide Web (Sebastian Hammer and John Favaro), March 1996. Article published in D-Lib Magazine.

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