ROADS and Z39.50
Using ZEXI to provide Z39.50 access to ROADS servers
Introduction
ZEXI is a Perl script that can be used as an Isite SCRIPT database to function as a Z39.50 to Whois++ gateway. Isite, developed by CNIDR, provides a Z39.50 server; ZEXI passes queries on to a ROADS server using Whois++. Results are passed back to the Z39.50 client as simple unstructured text records (SUTRS).
Obtaining the Software
Isite is available from <URL:http://www.cnidr.org/ir/isite.html>.ZEXI is available from <URL:ftp://ftp.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/zoro.pl>
Setting up Zexi
- Obtain and install Isite.
- Obtain a copy of zoro.pl.
- Edit the zoro.pl script to set your ROADS server hostname and Whois++ port and install somewhere (e.g. /opt/bin/zoro.pl).
- Configure a new Isite SCRIPT database, referring to the installed version of zoro.pl.
Technical details
- Search attributes
- To be supplied
- Record syntax
- SUTRS
Demonstrator
Under development
Maintained by
Andy
Powell of the UKOLN Metadata
Group.
Last updated: 12-June-1998
