[ANN] Z39.50 FFI Client (ZOOM binding)

> This is a binding of the ZOOM Yaz client for Squeak and Pharo [1].
>
> To install:
>
> 1) Download the compiled library (DLL or SO) from
> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ and copy the yaz3.dll (or equivalent in
> Unix) to your Squeak directory.
> 2) Make sure you have installed FFI package in your image:
> 3) If you have Installer in your image doIt this:
>
> Installer ss project: 'Z3950';
>  install: 'Z3950';
>  install: 'Z3950Tests'.
>
> To use:
>
> Right now you must know the infamous PQF/PQN query syntax (I'm working
> on it). Connect to a Z39.50 server and make a query for records with
> author Foucault :
>
> Z3950Client new
>  server: #Alameda;
>  query: '@attr 1=1003 foucault'.
>
> or using a random server for Kant
>
> Z3950Client new
>  query: '@attr 1=1003 kant'.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Hernán
>
> [1] SqueakSource page link : http://www.squeaksource.com/Z3950.html
>
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> YAZ
> C toolkit for development of Z39.50 applications.
>
> So what is it?
>
>
>
> On May 4, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>
>> This is a binding of the ZOOM Yaz client for Squeak and Pharo [1].
>>
>> To install:
>>
>> 1) Download the compiled library (DLL or SO) from
>> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ and copy the yaz3.dll (or equivalent in
>> Unix) to your Squeak directory.
>> 2) Make sure you have installed FFI package in your image:
>> 3) If you have Installer in your image doIt this:
>>
>> Installer ss project: 'Z3950';
>> install: 'Z3950';
>> install: 'Z3950Tests'.
>>
>> To use:
>>
>> Right now you must know the infamous PQF/PQN query syntax (I'm  
>> working
>> on it). Connect to a Z39.50 server and make a query for records with
>> author Foucault :
>>
>> Z3950Client new
>> server: #Alameda;
>> query: '@attr 1=1003 foucault'.
>>
>> or using a random server for Kant
>>
>> Z3950Client new
>> query: '@attr 1=1003 kant'.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Hernán
>>
>> [1] SqueakSource page link : http://www.squeaksource.com/Z3950.html
>>
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>
> Looks like for doing databasing.
>
> Alexandre
>
> On 4 May 2009, at 08:59, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> YAZ
>> C toolkit for development of Z39.50 applications.
>>
>> So what is it?
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 4, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>
>>> This is a binding of the ZOOM Yaz client for Squeak and Pharo [1].
>>>
>>> To install:
>>>
>>> 1) Download the compiled library (DLL or SO) from
>>> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ and copy the yaz3.dll (or equivalent in
>>> Unix) to your Squeak directory.
>>> 2) Make sure you have installed FFI package in your image:
>>> 3) If you have Installer in your image doIt this:
>>>
>>> Installer ss project: 'Z3950';
>>> install: 'Z3950';
>>> install: 'Z3950Tests'.
>>>
>>> To use:
>>>
>>> Right now you must know the infamous PQF/PQN query syntax (I'm
>>> working
>>> on it). Connect to a Z39.50 server and make a query for records with
>>> author Foucault :
>>>
>>> Z3950Client new
>>> server: #Alameda;
>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 foucault'.
>>>
>>> or using a random server for Kant
>>>
>>> Z3950Client new
>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 kant'.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Hernán
>>>
>>> [1] SqueakSource page link : http://www.squeaksource.com/Z3950.html
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pharo-project mailing list
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> On May 4, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
>
>> ZOOM is an acronym for 'Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model'
>
> yes but this is not really clear either. I read the manual but this
> should be so obvious that they never said a word about
> what is a z39.50 OOM
>>
>> Looks like for doing databasing.
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
>> On 4 May 2009, at 08:59, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> YAZ
>>> C toolkit for development of Z39.50 applications.
>>>
>>> So what is it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 4, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a binding of the ZOOM Yaz client for Squeak and Pharo [1].
>>>>
>>>> To install:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Download the compiled library (DLL or SO) from
>>>> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ and copy the yaz3.dll (or equivalent in
>>>> Unix) to your Squeak directory.
>>>> 2) Make sure you have installed FFI package in your image:
>>>> 3) If you have Installer in your image doIt this:
>>>>
>>>> Installer ss project: 'Z3950';
>>>> install: 'Z3950';
>>>> install: 'Z3950Tests'.
>>>>
>>>> To use:
>>>>
>>>> Right now you must know the infamous PQF/PQN query syntax (I'm
>>>> working
>>>> on it). Connect to a Z39.50 server and make a query for records with
>>>> author Foucault :
>>>>
>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>> server: #Alameda;
>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 foucault'.
>>>>
>>>> or using a random server for Kant
>>>>
>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 kant'.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Hernán
>>>>
>>>> [1] SqueakSource page link : http://www.squeaksource.com/Z3950.html
>>>>
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>> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
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> Z39.50 is a protocol for data retrieval (mostly used in library
> metadata exchange).
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:20, Stéphane Ducasse
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> On May 4, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
>>
>>> ZOOM is an acronym for 'Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model'
>>
>> yes but this is not really clear either. I read the manual but this
>> should be so obvious that they never said a word about
>> what is a z39.50 OOM
>>>
>>> Looks like for doing databasing.
>>>
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>> On 4 May 2009, at 08:59, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>>
>>>> YAZ
>>>> C toolkit for development of Z39.50 applications.
>>>>
>>>> So what is it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 4, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is a binding of the ZOOM Yaz client for Squeak and Pharo [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> To install:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Download the compiled library (DLL or SO) from
>>>>> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ and copy the yaz3.dll (or  
>>>>> equivalent in
>>>>> Unix) to your Squeak directory.
>>>>> 2) Make sure you have installed FFI package in your image:
>>>>> 3) If you have Installer in your image doIt this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Installer ss project: 'Z3950';
>>>>> install: 'Z3950';
>>>>> install: 'Z3950Tests'.
>>>>>
>>>>> To use:
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now you must know the infamous PQF/PQN query syntax (I'm
>>>>> working
>>>>> on it). Connect to a Z39.50 server and make a query for records  
>>>>> with
>>>>> author Foucault :
>>>>>
>>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>>> server: #Alameda;
>>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 foucault'.
>>>>>
>>>>> or using a random server for Kant
>>>>>
>>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 kant'.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Hernán
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] SqueakSource page link : http://www.squeaksource.com/ 
>>>>> Z3950.html
>>>>>
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>>
>> Looks like for doing databasing.
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
>> On 4 May 2009, at 08:59, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> YAZ
>>> C toolkit for development of Z39.50 applications.
>>>
>>> So what is it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 4, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a binding of the ZOOM Yaz client for Squeak and Pharo [1].
>>>>
>>>> To install:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Download the compiled library (DLL or SO) from
>>>> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ and copy the yaz3.dll (or equivalent in
>>>> Unix) to your Squeak directory.
>>>> 2) Make sure you have installed FFI package in your image:
>>>> 3) If you have Installer in your image doIt this:
>>>>
>>>> Installer ss project: 'Z3950';
>>>> install: 'Z3950';
>>>> install: 'Z3950Tests'.
>>>>
>>>> To use:
>>>>
>>>> Right now you must know the infamous PQF/PQN query syntax (I'm
>>>> working
>>>> on it). Connect to a Z39.50 server and make a query for records with
>>>> author Foucault :
>>>>
>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>> server: #Alameda;
>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 foucault'.
>>>>
>>>> or using a random server for Kant
>>>>
>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 kant'.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Hernán
>>>>
>>>> [1] SqueakSource page link : http://www.squeaksource.com/Z3950.html
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
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> 2009/5/4 Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]>:
>>
>> On May 4, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
>>
>>> ZOOM is an acronym for 'Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model'
>>
>> yes but this is not really clear either. I read the manual but this
>> should be so obvious that they never said a word about
>> what is a z39.50 OOM
>
>  Is not obvious at all Stéphane, I forgot some links or explanation,
> and given that is the star protocol for querying catalogs through
> national libraries around the world, the documentation is pretty
> unclear and they assume many things (imagine how it's to build a
> Z39.50 server to test)
>
> Z39.50 is a pre-web protocol for querying library catalogs using the
> same rules, something like using the same UI to query any library.
> Pre-web means this protocol doesn't need HTTP to work, but encodes
> things using ODR/ASN.1 protocol. The typical operations for this
> protocol are Search, Retrieve, Sort and Browse, (documentation says
> you can update databases too but I didn't tested it). What is weird to
> discover is that not every catalog of scientific journals, for
> example, is available through a web UI.
>
> A ZOOM binding [1] is a concrete implementation of the Z39.50 API
> provided by an OO specification called ZOOM. The conformation with
> ZOOM is optional, and as a developper you can choose any toolkit
> (Corssnet's ZedKit, OCLC's tools or YAZ which is the most popular) and
> implement the interface using the low-level YAZ calls (here you need
> to mess with complex data-structures from ASN.1 and PDU's) or using
> the ZOOM calls, which happen to be included in the same dll/so
> library. Hope that clears the picture a little bit.
>
> Hernán
>
>
> [1] http://zoom.z3950.org/bind/index.html
>
>>>
>>> Looks like for doing databasing.
>>>
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>> On 4 May 2009, at 08:59, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>>
>>>> YAZ
>>>> C toolkit for development of Z39.50 applications.
>>>>
>>>> So what is it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 4, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is a binding of the ZOOM Yaz client for Squeak and Pharo [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> To install:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Download the compiled library (DLL or SO) from
>>>>> http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ and copy the yaz3.dll (or equivalent in
>>>>> Unix) to your Squeak directory.
>>>>> 2) Make sure you have installed FFI package in your image:
>>>>> 3) If you have Installer in your image doIt this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Installer ss project: 'Z3950';
>>>>> install: 'Z3950';
>>>>> install: 'Z3950Tests'.
>>>>>
>>>>> To use:
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now you must know the infamous PQF/PQN query syntax (I'm
>>>>> working
>>>>> on it). Connect to a Z39.50 server and make a query for records with
>>>>> author Foucault :
>>>>>
>>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>>> server: #Alameda;
>>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 foucault'.
>>>>>
>>>>> or using a random server for Kant
>>>>>
>>>>> Z3950Client new
>>>>> query: '@attr 1=1003 kant'.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Hernán
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] SqueakSource page link : http://www.squeaksource.com/Z3950.html
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>>
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