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Implementors

Cheshire project (updated June 5, 2003)

The Cheshire project is in the process of implementing SRW as a front end to their Z39.50 databases and are distributing this as part of their normal distribution.

Contact: Robert Sanderson http://srw.o-r-g.org

OCLC (updated April 9, 2003)

As part of the COLIS experiment at MacQuarie University in Australia, we have collect IMS LOM metadata records and are exposing them via SRW/U for searching by other institutions. The service can be found at: http://alcme.oclc.org/axis/SOAR/services/SearchRetrieveService

We also have a collection of 3 million ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertations) metadata records. These should be available shortly.

Contact: Ralph LeVan

Inera (updated April 9, 2003)

Our Metavista Z39.50 product now includes an SRU client and server. The first instance has been, in the European TEL (The European Library) Project, the new way (besides Z39.50) to access ICCU (Istituto Centrale Catalogo Unico)
Italian Union Catalogue database, and the extension to ICCU Cultural Heritage web portal SBNOnLine. The first has been implemented by a SRU/Z39.50 gateway on Linux with Java technology (temporarily at http://zoe.inera.it/servlet/SRUHandler). The second has been implemented on Unix with Perl technology and permits
searching of SRU servers together with Z39.50 servers (temporarily at http://sru.metavista.it/zgw/). We also plan to implement the SRW protocol.

Contact: Luca Lelli

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (updated 03/17)

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) has implemented the SRU protocol as part of The European Library project to give access to metadata that are harvested from several national libraries via OAI. SRU will also be used to access most catalogues of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. SRU base-urls are: http://krait.kb.nl/cgi-zoek/srw.pl? and http://www.kb.nl/cgi-zoek/srw.pl?. An experimental SRU-portal is located at: http://krait.kb.nl/coop/tel/portal/TEL.html.

Contact: Theo van Veen

Index Data (updated March 3, 2003)

Our YAZ toolkit supports SRW (in addition to Z39.50, of course) in the client and server roles. On the client side, SRW is hidden under the ZOOM API which means that it's easy to use, but also that it's available with practically no effort in any application or higher-level API that is based on our ZOOM/C implementation. The server side is based on our popular front-end server and requires only minimal changes to enable SRW in any existing application based on that API. We also offer a general-purpose SRW-to-Z39.50 gateway.

We continue to explore the relationship between the ZOOM API and SRW.We're also exploring ways of making SRW (and Z39.50) more useful as a general-purpose XML-oriented IR protocol. SRU will be considered if we perceive a clear user interest.

Contact: Sebastian Hammer

JAFER project (updated 12/11)

The JAFER project is adding SRW/U client and server support to its Java Z39.50 toolkits. This will include client and
server toolkits as well as a SRW to Z39.50 gateway.

Contact: Matthew Dovey

Portia (updated 11/14)

Information Services
Portia is implementing different Web Services, which utilise SRW/SRU to access operational financial- and corporate information. The work is performed together with commercial information providers and government agencies.
Some of the SRU-based services will be public while most of the SRW-based services be restricted. The record formats supported includes XBRL and proprietary formats.

VisualCat
Portia's VisualCat is a popular Cataloguing Client which makes extensive use of Z39.50 and XML. VisualCat will support SRW as an alternative to Z39.50 for searching, copy cataloguing and distributed authority control.

Contact: Poul Henrik Jørgensen, www.portia.dk

Mike Taylor (updated 11/14)

I've developed "cql-java", a suite of free tools for handling CQL queries in Java. See http://zing.z3950.org/cql/java/
where you can download the source and binaries, or read the README file or javadoc'd API documentation on-line.

Contact: Mike Taylor

OCLC/PICA (updated 11/8)

OCLC PICA's PiCarta service is a ZING /SRU server interoperating with the iPort portal as a client. The iPort portal is developed by the University of Tilburg for OCLC PICA. The service currently delivers XML records with UNIMARC
encoding (MARCXML style) or with PICAMARC encoding (also MARCXML style) or with Dublin Core simple. The systems LBS versions 3 and 4 (Local bibliographic System) also have ZING/SRU server capability indicating holdings availability for the bibliographic records. The implementation is based on the pre-release specifications on the web page at 16th August 2002 (updated August 30th 2002). It is currently in final testing.

Contact: Janifer Gatenby

ARTISTE Project (updated 9/20)

ARITSTE is an EU IST project. The technical partners are IT Innovation (UK), University of Southampton (UK), NCR (Denmark), and Guinti Interactive Labs (Italy). Plan to implement SRW to provide distributed query access to digital image collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Uffizi Gallery, the National Gallery London, and the C2RMF.

contact: Alison Stevenson

TLC (updated 9/12)

TLC has begun actively reviewing the specifications and anticipates writing code during the trial period.

Contact: Mark Wilson

Pergamum (a partnership between PUCPR, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil, and PUC-Rio.)

Tilburg University

Knowledge Integration Ltd

SIRSI

InQuirion Pty Ltd (formerly RMIT)

EDINA

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