|
|
About the ProfileThe ProfileThe Maintenance AgencyResources |
Revision HistoryRelease 2 of the profile includes all amendments and clarifications that were identified and endorsed up to April 2002. These include the results of discussions at Bath Profile meetings in September 2000 at St John's, Newfoundland; October 2001 at Boston Spa, UK; and April 2002 at Dublin, Ohio. Chronology of EventsJune 2002 - Added text on Functional Area B to cover agreements made at Bath Profile Meeting in Dublin Ohio (Mark Needleman, Joe Zeeman) April 2002 - Bath Meeting, Dublin Ohio February 2002 -- Draft release 2 for discussion October - December 2001 -- Discussion of recommended changes October 2001 -- Bath Meeting, Boston Spa February 2001 -- Profile released with minor modifications October - December 2000 -- Discussion of recommended changes September 2000 -- Bath Meeting, St. John's Newfoundland June 2000 -- Release 1.1 released as International Registered Profile March 2000 -- Stable draft released January 2000 -- Bath Meeting, San Antonio Texas November - December 1999 -- Review and discussion of draft October 1999 -- Draft released for general comment August 1999 -- Bath Meeting to draft profile, Bath, U.K. Maintenance of the ProfileThe Library and Archives of Canada (LAC) is the maintenance agency for the Profile and assumes overall responsibility for its development. LAC serves as Editor of the Profile. The Bath Profile Developer Group (a voluntary and informal group of interested librarians, Z39.50 developers, and vendors) serves in an advisory capacity to the Editor. The Profile will evolve in response to application needs and requirements of the international library communities and implementors of the Bath Profile. See www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/bath/ap-bath-e.htm for current information on the Profile and its development. For reporting defects, the form located at www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/bath/mp-defectreportform.htm must be used. AcknowledgmentsThis document reflects several years of implementing and profiling Z39.50 specification directed at solving interoperability issues when searching library catalogues. In August 1999, a group of people met in Bath, United Kingdom, to work out solutions that would improve semantic interoperability between Z39.50 systems used in library applications. The participants represented various initiatives, projects, interests, and key Z39.50 profiling efforts of the past several years. They also shared a common goal of developing an international specification for Z39.50 to be used in library applications. The first release of the Bath Profile was the result of those deliberations. The following people attended the first Bath Meeting:
Release two of the profile benefited from the work of ONE2/DanZIG and NISO SC AV on holdings retrieval, the efforts of Larry Dixson Library of Congress (E-mail : ldix@loc.gov) in drafting Functional Area D, and Joe Zeeman RLG and Mark Needleman Sirsi Corporation (E-mail : markn@sirsi.com) in drafting the new Functional Area B.
|
 |
 |
 |