Links to Other Search Resources

Organizations

• The Z39.50 maintenance agency at the Library of Congress
• The National Information Standards Organization's page of Z39.50 resources
• Textuality.com, author of Lark
• CANIS
• The Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR), authors of Isite
• The World Wide Web Consortium

Standards

• The official specification of Z39.50-1995, and its ASN.1 binding
• Registry of Z39.50 Object Identifiers (OID's)
• W3C's recommendation for XML 1.0
• The MARC standard
• ISO 8601 date/time representation
• MIME types
• The Dublin Core
• XER -- XML Encoding Rules
• The Open Archives Initiative

Freeware Tools

• The Lark XML parser
• The YAZ Z39.50 toolkit
• CNIDR's Isite Z39.50-enabled full-text search engine