About the Profile

The Profile

The Maintenance Agency

Resources

Resources

• The Bath Profile and SRW
• Related Profiles
• Interoperability Testing
• Articles
• Implementors
• Z39.50 Targets

The Bath Profile and SRW

• The Bath Profile for SRW, version 2.0
  http://zing.z3950.org/srw/bath/2.0

Related Profiles

The following Profiles have implemented the Bath Profile as the core of their Profile. They are compatible supersets of the Bath Profile.

• danZIG profile specification v 2002-06 r10:
  http://bs.dk/content.aspx?itemguid=%7b80AB25D1-8A8F-4B6E-AC5C-D6C7A8745DDB
  
  
• CENL :
  www.lib.helsinki.fi/cenlwg/
  
  
• ONE2 [PDF file, 69KB]:
  www.crxnet.com/one2/ONE-2Profilev2rev5.pdf
  
  
• ZTexas Profile, Release 3.0:
  http://castor.tsl.state.tx.us/
  
  
• ANSI/NISO Z39.89 - 2003 The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications
  www.niso.org/standards/standard_detail.cfm?std_id=734

Interoperability testing

Interoperability between diverse information systems in the networked environment presents complex and, at times, confounding challenges. William E. Moen (E-mail : wemoen@unt.edu), School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, is the principle investigator of a project that will address these challenges. The project will design and demonstrate test methods and metrics to assess interoperability between systems using ANSI/NISO Z39.50 and the Bath profile. The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed (www.unt.edu/zinterop) focuses on semantic interoperability between systems providing access to online library resources.

Articles

The following link to publications, presentations, and other documentation concerning the Z39.50 Protocol and the Bath Profile.

• Finding consensus in order to improve interoperability; a tale of Z39.50 & profiles by Carrol Lunau (Library and Archives of Canada)
  
  
• The Bath Profile: What is it and why should I care? by Carrol Lunau, Library and Archives of Canada
  Available in PDF 28 KB
  
  
• Bath Profile Meeting July 2003 - Bath Profile Four Years On: what's being done in the UK?
  www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/bath-profile/programme.html
  
  
• Nicolaides, Fraser. "The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's being done in the UK?" Ariadne. Issue 36, July 2003.
  www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/bath-profile-rpt/
  
  
• Atelier d'information sur la norme Z39.5 et le Bath Profile:
  www.crepuq.qc.ca/Colloques/bibliotheque/z39/documents.htm
  
  
• Presentations and publications by Paul Miller (UKOLN):
  www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/
  
  
• Presentations and publications by William E. Moen (University of North Texas) :
  www.unt.edu/wmoen/
  
  
• Gethin, Peter. "Why the Bath Profile makes Z39.50 work." LIBER Quarterly, v. 11, no.4 (2001), p.372-381

Implementors

Organizations:

• Atlantic Scholarly Information Network:
  www.caul-cdbua.ca/vision.html
  
  
• CENL Working Group on Technical Standards:
  www.lib.helsinki.fi/cenlwg
  
  
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC):
  www.cic.uiuc.edu/
  
  
• International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) [includes 68 consortia, members of which endore the Profile] :
  www.library.yale.edu/consortia/
  
  
• Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche (ICCU) :
  www.iccu.sbn.it
  
  
• M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries :
  www.m25lib.ac.uk
  Results: www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/BathPoster04.pdf
  
  
• Melvyl: The Catalog of the University of California Libraries
  http://melvyl.cdlib.org
  
  
• Library and Archives Canada :
  www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html
  
  
• OCLC FirstSearch - Bath Profile Compliance Checklist
  www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/z3950/bath/
  
  
• ONE2 :
  http://home.hio.no/~liva/divdok/one2jbi.htm
  
  
• Sm@rtLibrary :
  www.smartlib-bibliogen.ca
  
  
• Standing Conference of National and University Libraries (SCONUL) :
  www.sconul.ac.uk/
  
  
• Université du Québec
  www.uquebec.ca/
  
  
• Ztexas Project :
  http://castor.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/z3950/index.html
  
  

Vendors:

• Auto-Graphics, Inc.(AGent) :
  www.auto-graphics.com
  
  
• Fretwell-Downing Inc. :
  www.fdusa.com
  
  
• SIRSI - Overview of Sirsi’s Z39.50 / Bath Profile Conformance :
  www.sirsi.com/Aboutsirsi/z3950.html
  
  
• Sea Change (BookWhere) :
  www.WebClarity.info/products/

Z39.50 Targets

The following web sites provide the information you need to configure your client for searching. They may, or may not, be Bath compliant.

International:

• WebClarity's Z39.50 Resource Registry
  www.webclarity.info/products/registry.html
  
  
• The Z39.50 Target Directory
  www.indexdata.dk/targettest
  
  

National:

• Directory of Z39.50 Targets in Australia
  www.nla.gov.au/libraries/z3950/z3950list.html
  
  
• United Kingdom Z39.50 Directory
  www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/zdir