Z-Interop2 Project Documents

The Z-Interop2 Project has created a number of documents that describe our alternative approach to interoperability testbed.  This page provides a comprehensive list of  project-created or other relevant documents in the following general areas:

Z-Interop 2 Final Report
Descriptions of Project
Testbed Development
Radioactive MARC Records
Status Reports to IMLS
Papers and Presentations
Z39.50 Profiles
Related Documents

Z-Interop 2 Final Report

• Final Report for The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project Phase 2: Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers

Description of Project

• Brief project description
• Full project proposal

Testbed Development

• Radioactive MARC Records Specifications. January 1, 2005. (Draft). [pdf]

• Creating Radioactive MARC Records and Z Queries Using the MARCdocs Database. December 2, 2004. [pdf]

• MARCdocs: The MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Database (Version 1.2) October 28, 2004. [pdf]

• Z-Interop 2 Project Search & Record Data Requirements for
  Z39.50 Interoperability Testing Using Radioactive MARC Records. September 15, 2004 (Version 3 Draft). [doc]

• Z39.50 Interoperability Testing Framework for Online Library Catalogs Using Radioactive MARC Records. June 2004. [pdf]

• Z-Interop2 Project Work Plan. June 2004. [pdf]

Radioactive MARC Records

• RadMARC Record Set 1: Ten RadMARC records.

• RadMARC Record Set 2: Four RadMARC records.

Status Reports to IMLS

• Status Report, July 2005 [pdf]
• Status Report, January 2004 [pdf]
• Status Report, July 2004 [pdf]

Papers and Presentations

• An Alternative Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs. Presentation given at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, October 2005, Raleigh, NC.
• Radioactive Metadata Records: An Interoperability Testing Approach Based on Metadata Utilization. Presentation given at the Access 2005 Conference, October 2005, Edmonton, Alberta.
• An Extensible Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs (Draft Pre-print, June 2005). William E. Moen, Sebastian Hammer, Mike Taylor, Jason Thomale, and JungWon Yoon. This paper has been accepted for presentation at the 2005 ASIST Annual Meeting.

• A Radioactive Metadata Record Approach for Interoperability Testing Based on Analysis of Metadata Utilization. Project briefing at the Coalition for Networked Information 2005 Spring Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC. and the abstract is available at: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005a.spring/abstracts/PB-moen-radioactive.html

Z39.50 Profiles

• Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery
• ANSI/NISO Z39.89 - 2003 The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications

Related Documents

• Assessing Metadata Utilization: An Analysis of MARC Content Designation Use [pdf]. (Moen and Benardino, 2003) [Note: Paper presented at the 2003 Dublin Core Conference].