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- From: Jane Smith <jds@concert.net>
- Subject: New mailing list for Z39.50 project
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.150655.26763@rock.concert.net>
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- X-Xxdate: Wed, 30 Dec 92 15: 07:04 GMT
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- Organization: Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:06:55 GMT
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- A new mailing list for technical discussion about the Z39.50-92
- information project (zip, for the moment) which was announced to
- several mailing lists and newsgroups by Jim Fullton on Dec. 23,
- 1992
- has been set up at:
-
- zip@kudzu.concert.net
-
- To subscribe to the list, send mail to:
-
- zip-request@kudzu.concert.net
-
- with the text:
-
- subscribe zip
-
- This is a simple mail reflector, not a listserv mechanism. You
- will
- receive notification of subscription when your address has been
- added
- to the mailing list.
-
- Archives can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from
- kudzu.concert.net:
-
- /pub/zip/zipmail*
-
- A brief excerpt from the original Z39.50-92 information
- project announcement follows:
-
- In article <1992Dec23.203300.26379@rock.concert.net> Jim
- Fullton,
- fullton@jazz.concert.net writes:
- >As some of you may know, the U.S. National Science Foundation
- has funded
- >the creation of the Clearinghouse for Networked Information
- Discovery
- >and Retrieval. One of the responsibilities of CNIDR is to
- promote the
- >use and development of tools for discovering and using
- networked
- >information. We have been specifically charged with the task of
- >providing an evolutionary path for the public-domain version
- of WAIS,
- >the Wide Area Information Server. Therefore, we have been
- paying close
- >attention to the remarks and "wish lists" provided by the
- network
- >community, and are well into a project to try to fulfill those
- wishes.
- >
- >We are in the early beta test stages of a new generation of
- WAIS-like
- >systems that build on the heritage of WAIS as released by
- Thinking
- >Machines, but with quite a bit of extensibility and new
- features.
- >Specifically, and with the help of many others, we're creating
- a
- >Z39.50-92 (soon to be 93) server with full backwards
- compatibility with
- >current WAIS clients and indexes, features such as boolean
- search,
- >formatted searching on fielded text information, thesaurus
- based synonym
- >substitution, stemming, and a search engine integration
- toolkit.
-
- The entire text of the announcement can be retrieved via
- anonymous ftp
- from kudzu.concert.net:
-
- /pub/zip/zip.announce
-