| Provider |
OCLC
Support
|
| Purpose |
A toolkit for management of distributed library resources,
within a world wide web environment, including tools for
presenting resources through one Web interface, providing
flexible access and building local databases. |
| Approach |
Two main components, Database Builder and WebZ provide the
funcitionality. Database Builder handles the building and
managing of local databases. WebZ includes the components for
controlling access and retrieval functionality based on Z39.50
and Web access. |
| Platform and requirements |
WebZ runs on Microsoft Windows NT and Unix. Detailed systems
and supporting software requirements
are published on the website. |
| Components and their
technology |
|
| Server |
WebZ provides both the Web gateway and the Z39.50 server. The
web gateway works with standard HTTP servers. Web-based access is
provided through HTML-and-Java based interfaces, via the JaSSI
component of WebZ. For databases built with DatabaseBuilder, WebZ
includes java classes to make them available to any Z39.50
client. Multidatabase searching and browsing is supported. |
| Database |
DatabaseBuilder provides a set of tools for managing and
building a local database. Record creation and editing can be
made via a web interface. It is used in conjunction with
conjunction with WebZ. The Database Operations Tools can be used
for administration of the database. The database is unlimited in
size. |
| Search tools/clients |
The ZBase component of the WebZ package manages client
connections to any local and remote server compliant with Z39.50.
ZBase also uses Java programming to provide searching of
non-Z3950 resources by translating Z39.50 requests to the native
search language. A published API for the non-Z39.50 resource is
required to configure WebZ to do this. Web interfaces can be
customized.` |
| API |
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| Metadata Formats |
Data conversion tools can convert MARC, SGML to the format of
data stored internally (ASN.1/BER). |
| Extras/Other features |
Authentication can be supported by providing an SQL database
package for the authentication database. This connects with WebZ
via JDBC or JDBC-ODBC bridge (included in WebZ).
Customizable web-accesible interfaces. |
