Expression of Z39.50 supported search capabilities by applying formal descriptions
Authors: Sfakakis, Michalis 
Kapidakis, Sarantos 
Publisher: Springer
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2005
Conference: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 
Book: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume: 3652 LNCS
Keywords: Access Point, Attribute Type, Formal Description, Query Language, Global Schema
Abstract: 
The wide adoption of the Z39.50 protocol from the Libraries exposes their abilities to participate in a distributed environment. In spite of the protocol specification of a unified global access mechanism, query failures and/or inconsistent answers are the pending issues when searching many sources due to the variant or poor implementations. The elimination of these issues heavily depends on the ability of the client to make decisions prior to initiating search requests, utilizing the knowledge of the supported search capabilities of each source. To effectively reformulate such requests, we propose a Datalog based description for capturing the knowledge about the supported search capabilities of a Z39.50 source. We assume that the accessible sources can answer some but possibly not all queries over their data, and we describe a model for their supported search capabilities using a set of parameterized queries, according to the Relational Query Description Language (RQDL) specification.
ISBN: 3540287671
ISSN: 16113349
03029743
DOI: 10.1007/11551362_38
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/613
Type: Conference Paper
Department: Department of Archival, Library and Information Studies 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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