NF ISO 23950
NF ISO 23950

NF ISO 23950

December 1999
Standard Current

Information and documentation - Information retrieval (Z39.50) - Application service definition and protocol specification

This standard defines the Information Retrieval Application Service (section 3) and specifies the Information Retrieval Application Protocol (section 4). The service definition describes services that support capabilities within an application; the services are in turn supported by the Z39.50 protocol. The description neither specifies nor constrains the implementation within a computer system. The protocol specification includes the definition of the protocol control information, the rules for exchanging this information, and the conformance requirements to be met by implementation of this protocol.Intended for systems supporting information retrieval services, and for organizations such as information services, universities, libraries, and union catalogue centers, this standard addresses connection-oriented, program-to-program communication. It does not address interchange of information with terminals or via other physical media.

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Collections

National standards and national normative documents

Publication date

December 1999

Number of pages

241 p.

Reference

NF ISO 23950

ICS Codes

01.140.20   Information sciences
35.240.30   IT applications in information, documentation and publishing

Classification index

Z47-402

Print number

1 - décembre 1999

International kinship

ISO 23950:1998
Sumary
Information and documentation - Information retrieval (Z39.50) - Application service definition and protocol specification

This standard defines the Information Retrieval Application Service (section 3) and specifies the Information Retrieval Application Protocol (section 4). The service definition describes services that support capabilities within an application; the services are in turn supported by the Z39.50 protocol. The description neither specifies nor constrains the implementation within a computer system. The protocol specification includes the definition of the protocol control information, the rules for exchanging this information, and the conformance requirements to be met by implementation of this protocol.

Intended for systems supporting information retrieval services, and for organizations such as information services, universities, libraries, and union catalogue centers, this standard addresses connection-oriented, program-to-program communication. It does not address interchange of information with terminals or via other physical media.

Table of contents
  • 1 - Introduction
    1
  • 1.1 - Objet et domaine d'application
    1
  • 1.2 - Version
    1
  • 1.3 - Références normatives
    1
  • 2 - Definitions
    2
  • 3 - Service de recherche et de transfert de l'information
    9
  • 3.1 - Modèle et caractéristiques du service de recherche et de transfert de l'information
    9
  • 3.2 - Fonctions du service de recherche et de transfert de l'information
    13
  • 3.3 - Taille du message/Taille de l'enregistrement et Segmentation (Message/Record Size and Segmentation)
    56
  • 3.4 - Opérations et Identificateur-de-référence (Operations and Reference-id)
    61
  • 3.5 - Opérations simultanées (Concurrent Operations)
    62
  • 3.6 - Spécification de la composition (Composition Specification)
    62
  • 3.7 Equations de recherche de type-1 et de type-101 (Type-1 and Type-101 Queries)
    64
  • Version anglaise
    68
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