Norwegian Z39.50 profile

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

Terminology

NAME	USE	STRUCTURE
Author (N)	1003	101
Author (U)	1003	102
Personal author	1004	101
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

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

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

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

• A target must be able to support 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. Personal author,
  3. Corporate author,
  4. Title word,
  5. Series title,
  6. Subject word,
  7. Any,
  8. ISBN,
  9. ISSN,
  10. Year,
  11. Local number

• The requirement to support an attribute combination is not absolute, but should only apply in the case when the corresponding data types are present in the database. If not, the target should fail the search, and return a diagnostic from the BIB-1 diagnostic set, 114: "Unsupported use attribute".

• The target may choose to support Year only in Boolean queries, and only in combination with other use attributes. When the target receives a query consisting of only Year terms, it may return the diagnostic from the BIB-1 attribute set, 3: "Unsupported search".

• For all the attribute combinations defined in this profile, the target must apply the the following default values for the remaining BIB-1 attributes:

  For Relation: "Equal" (3)
  For Position: "Any position in field" (3)
  For Truncation: "Do not truncate" (100)
  For Completeness: " Incomplete subfield" (1)

• The target must in addition support the Truncation attributes "Right truncation" (1) and "Process # in search term" (101)

References