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Z39.50 Profiles

Procedures governing the maintenance of Profiles
About Profiles

Library Application Profiles Developed for Regional/National Interoperability

• Z Texas Profile -- A Z39.50 Specification for Library Systems Applications in Texas Release 3.0. Texas Z39.50 Implementors Group (TZIG). October 2, 2003.
• NISO Z39.89-200x: U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications. 2003. Approved but not yet published. Developed by NISO committee AV.
• ONE-2 Profile. Extends the ONE (OPAC Network in Europe) profile in the areas of item order, interlibrary lending, copy cataloguing and update, and electronic document delivery. Developed by the 13 European companies of the ONE Consortium. 2001-10-20
  
• The CENL Z39.50 profile (Conference of European National Librarians) Version 1.2, 1998-12-14
• Finnish Z39.50 profile Version 1.0; 1998-02-26
• MODELS Library Interoperability Profile Family;Version 1.3; 1997-04-03
• BIB-1 profile for ONE; Version 1; 1997-01-09
• Profil Z3950 Du Catalogue Collectif De France Version 3; 1995

Other Library Application Profiles

• The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery; Version 1.1; June 2000. Internationally Registered Profile
• Bath Profile Release 2 March 2003
• Union Catalogue Profile (National Library of Australia) 1999-06 version 1999-11 version (word) Internationally Registered Profile
• Z39.50/ILL Profile 1 Profile for the Use of Z39.50 Item Order Extended Service to Transport ILL Protocol APDUs; 1996-04-11 (PDF)
  Note: in conjunction with this profile an XML schema has been defined for ILL transactions transported via Z39.50 Item Order Extended Service.
  
• Z39.50/ILL Profile 2 Profile for the Use of Parameters from the ILL-Request APDU in Z39.50 Item Order; 1996-09-13 (PDF)

Other Application Profiles

• Z39.50 Application Profile for Geospatial Metadata -- Geo Profile; Version 2.2; 1999-04-19.
• Catalogue Interoperability Protocol (CIP) Profile 1998-06
• Z39.50 Application Profile for Cultural Heritage Information -- CIMI Profile; Release 1.0; 1998-03-01 Internationally Registered Profile
• The CIMI Profile Release 1.0H; 1998-11
• GILS profile Version 2, 1997-11-24
• Z39.50 for Access to Cultural Heritage Information -- Aquarelle Profile; Current status unclear, most recent known version: Version 0.2; 1997-07
  also available in postScript
• WAIS profile Version 1.4; 1994
• Z+SQL Profile February 2000

Application-Support Profiles

• Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus NavigationVersion 0.5; 2001-11-6
• Z39.50 Profile for Access to Digital Collections Draft Seven; 1996-05-03

Architectural-Support Profiles

• Z39.50 OAI Gateway Profile Z39.50 Server Profile in Support of Harvesting Records via a Simple OAI-PMH Gateway; March 2003
• Profile for Z39.50 over HTTP(Discussion Paper); Second Draft; 1999-04-07
• Using Z39.50- 1992 Directly over TCP 1994-04

Web Service Profiles

• SRW/U: Search and Retrieve Web Service/Search and Retrieve via URL Version 1.1; February 13, 2004

Historical Profiles, Not Currently Maintained

• ZDSR: Z39.50 Profile for Simple Distributed Search and Ranked Retrieval
  (Also available in postScript)
• DL (Z39.50 Profile for Access to Digital Library Objects)
• the ATS-1 profile