Norwegian Z39.50 profile

Version 1.0
1999-07-02

Edited by Ole Husby, BIBSYS (ole.husby@bibsys.no)

Updated 2002-03-07 by Ole Husby: Corrected link to the CENL profile.

This profile is based on the "Z39.50 BIB-1 attribute set profile for CENL" ([1]). Only sections where changes to this profile are needed will be present in this draft.

The profile is based on agreements within NorZIG: Norwegian Z39.50 Interest Group.


Purpose

Chapter 1 in [1] will have to be reformulated to reflect the assumption that has not been made explicit, that this profile will apply to "library catalogues" in Norway - or a similar statement.

Terminology

In [1] chapter 3, the table of attribute combinations defined for this profile should be replaced by the following:

NAME USE STRUCTURE
Author (N) 1003101
Author (U) 1003102
Personal author 1004101
Corporate author 2 2
Title 4 1
Title word 4 2
Series title 5 2
Subject 21 1
Subject word 21 2
Any 1016 2
ISBN 7 2
ISSN 8 2
Year 31 4
Local number 12 2

Record syntax

Chapter 4.4 in [1] should be replaced by the following:

An origin system must support all the following record syntaxes: NORMARC, USMARC and SUTRS.

If an origin accepts detailed holdings data, it must be capable of receiving them in the form specified in the recommendation currently under development in the Z3950 Implementor's Group [4].

It is recommended that an origin should be capable of receiving summary location/holdings data as specified in [3].

A target system must support the following syntaxes: NORMARC, USMARC and SUTRS. A target must be able to present summary location/holdings data as specified in [3].

Detailed holdings - if available - must be supplied according to the recommendation currently under development in the Z3950 Implementor's Group [4].

Origin requirements

Chapter 5.1.1 in [1] should be replaced by the following:

An origin must be able to formulate a type-1 query with a single operand consisting of an attribute combination and term, for each of the following attribute combinations as defined in section 3:

  1. Author (N),
  2. Title word,
  3. Subject word,
  4. ISBN,
  5. ISSN,
  6. Year

Target requirements

Chapter 5.2 in [1] should be replaced by the following:

The requirements in [2] section 5.2 apply without restrictions, and with the following additions:

References

[1] http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/z3950/cenl_profile.html: The CENL Z39.50 profile
[2] http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/ats.html: The ATS-1 profile
[3] http://www.norzig.no/profiles/holdings.html: Summary location and holdings data. A proposal for a Norwegian Z39.50 profile
[4] http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/agency.html: Z39.50 Maintenance Agency