October 2001 ZIG Meeting

Introduction of Attendees and Status

October 4, Boston Spa, UK

Updated October 26

 

Bill Moen: University of North Texas; ZIG meeting chair

 

Ray Denenberg: Library of Congress and Z39.50 Maintenance Agency

 

Janifer Gatenby: Pica; union and local catalogs; Picarta and iPORT

 

John Gilby: M25 Link Project; Z39.50 union catalogue based in London, UK and working on system specific Bath Profile Guidelines.

 

Fraser Nicolaides: M25 Link Project; as above.

 

Joe Zeeman: TLC/Carl; new version 3 server soon to be released

 

Barbara Shuh: National Library of Canada; maint agency for ISO ILL

 

Mike Wheatley: MLW Ltd.

 

Paul Miller: UKOLN

 

Alan Hopkinson: Middlesex University; M25Link Project; chair of BSI committee

 

Ashley Sanders: University of Manchester; COPAC; CURL; Zetoc; developing origin system for de-duping

 

Rob Bull: Crossnet - DS Group; robot and proxy; LEAF

 

Dale ?: National Library of the Netherlands; European Library Project

 

Poul Henrik: Danish Bibliographic Centre; ONE coordinator; DanZIG chair

 

Leif Andresen: Danish National Library Authority

 

Andrea Giuliano: ICCU

 

Marit Olander: Helsinki University Library; secretary of FinZIG

 

Juha Hakala: Helsinki University Library; FinZIG chair; secretary of CENL

 

Ole Husby: BIBSYS

 

Jo Rademakers: K. U. Leuven/LIBIS

 

Pieter van Lierop: Geac; new complete service for search/present/scan coming soon

 

Dana Dietz: OCLC; FirstSearch product management for Z39.50 service

 

Ralph LeVan: OCLC; Sitesearch going open source; working in Office of Research and focusing on web services, especially ZNG

 

Marjery Tibbets: California Digital Library; Searchlight for broadcast Z39.50 searches to get hit counts; ILL client; MELVYL will have new attributes and a new host in mid-2002 as CDL moves to ExLibris

 

Rob Sanderson: University of Liverpool; archives focus; XML syntax

 

Irina Dijor: ExLibris

 

Steven Pile: Talis Information Limited; based on Crossnet

 

Thomas Place: Tilburg University; iPORT involveement with Pica; OpenURL; OAI

 

Kevin Gladwell: British Library; ONE2 involvement

 

Mark Needleman: Data Research Associates, Inc.; coordinates involvement in standards for DRA; released first version of Talis which is version 3 compliant

 

Lennie Stovel: RLG; unicode

 

John Lowery: British Library; online catalog not yet Z39.50

 

Jan Ashton: British Library (not to be confused with ....)

 

Janet Ashton: British Library

 

Matting Carey: System Simulation, Ltd.

 

Larry Dixson: Library of Congress; diacritics problem with outgoing records right now will be corrected

 

Auson Stevenson: ITInnovation; ZNG and Z39.50 being considered for distributed seearching

 

Ben Soares: EDINA/University of Edinburgh; EDINA provides Z39.50 targets to several specialist A&I databases and a Scottish Virtual Union Catalogue for HE and Research Libraries. Future projects include a Z target for a Geo-Data Browser and UK/Ireland Gazeteer.

 

Adam Dickmeiss: Index Data

 

Sebastion Hammer: Index Data; toolkits; consulting; complete solutions for the fringe (image archive consortium)

 

Mike Taylor: TECC, Ltd.

 

Ian Ibbotson: Knowledge Integration, Ltd.; independant consultant

 

Matthew Dovey: Oxford University

 

Anthony Corfield: Oxford University; developer

 

Colin Tathan: Oxford University; software developer

 

Stephen Owen: Ovid Silverplatter

 

Cynthia Bail: University of Ottawa; SmartLibraries project

 

Slavko Manojlovich: Sirsi Corporation/Memorial University of Newfoundland. SIRSI's production Z39.50 server, available in Unicorn Release 2001, is fully compliant with the level 1.1 of the Bath Profile, functional Areas A and C. It is also compliant with the indexing recommendations associated with the Bath/Z Texas Profiles. Configuration specifications for the SIRSI Z39.50 server are available at: http://www.sirsi.com/Sirsipdfs/unicorn_bathprofile_server_configuration.pdf. Anyone wishing to test their clients against a SIRSI Bath compliant server can use the Texas State Library (host: star.tsl.state.tx.us port: 2200 database: Unicorn)

 

Bill Oldroyd: British Library

 

Andy Powell: Andy Powell: UKOLN/University of Bath; Using OAI to share metadata records between subject gateways in the UK Resource Discovery Network (RDN). Complemented with use of Z39.50 to make combined RDN data available within the EC-funded Renardus project - a European-wide network of subject gateways. Also enhancing UKOLN's Z-Directory, a database of UK Z39.50 targets, to use a Z robot developed by Crossnet to automatically determine the profiles supported by the targets listed. This work is funded by the JISC GateZ project.

 

Pete Johnston: UKOLN/University of Bath