Z39.50 Server Information
Anyone with a Z39.50 client is most welcome to connect to our Innopac library catalogue through our Z39.50 server. This document provides technical information for Z39.50 client implementers.
Access and Initialisation
- IP address: library.latrobe.edu.au (131.172.180.1)
- Port: 210 - No Authentication/Password required
- Database name (code): INNOPAC
- Services Supported: Initialization, Scan, Search, Present
- Type of requests: USMARC (OID 1.2.840.10003.5.10) or
OPAC (OID 1.2.840.10003.5.102)
OPAC - Brief data - bibliographic and holdings data
OPAC - Full data - bibliographic and holdings and item data
- Type of query: 1
- Result set naming: not supported
- Resource control: not used
- Attribute Set: Bib-1
Searches Allowed
Use Field |
Relation |
Position |
Structure |
Truncate |
Completeness |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author | 1003 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Title | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Subject | 21 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Word | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 100 | 1 |
| ISBN | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ISSN | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Bib Record | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 1 |
| Call Number | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 1 |
Relation Attribute
The INNOPAC Z39.50 server supports only value '3' (Equal) for this attribute. If this attribute is not included in the request from the client or is set to '0', the server defaults to "Equal."
Position Attribute
The INNOPAC Z39.50 server supports values '1' (First in field) and '3' (Any position in field) for this attribute. If this attribute is not included in the request from the client or is set to '0', the server defaults to "First in field." Note that this attribute affects the index tag mapping for certain Use attributes (see above).
Structure Attribute
The INNOPAC Z39.50 server supports values '1' (Phrase), '2' (Word), and '6' (Word list) for this attribute. If this attribute is not included in the request from the client or is set to '0', the server defaults to "Phrase."
Truncation Attribute
The INNOPAC Z39.50 server supports values '1' (Right truncation) and '100' (No truncation) for this attribute. If this attribute is not included in the request from the client, the server defaults to "Right truncation."
Completeness Attribute
The INNOPAC Z39.50 server supports values '1' (Incomplete subfields), '2' (Complete subfields), and '3' (Complete subfields) for this attribute. Note, however, that the server always returns incomplete subfields, regardless of the value in the request.
Please Note
- For record number searches, the user enters the record number without the check digit
- The Z39.50 standard does not cover Authority records and Z39.50 searches do not return Authority records. Therefore, searches done of INNOPAC databases that contain Authority records will produce a different result set than the same search done using INNOPAC's native OPAC.
INNOPAC native searches report the number of "entries"retrieved. Included in this number asre entries for cross-references -- both "See" and "See also" references. INNOPAC's Z39.50 server will attempt to filter out these references, hence the Z39.50 server will report a different number of "entries" or "records" retrieved than INNOPAC's OPAC will. However, it is not able to filter out all of these references when the Z39.50 server reports on the entries retrieved, since it may be necessary to physically examine the individual records to determine whether they are references or Bibliographic records. This is particularly true when a large number of "entries" are retrieved. Thus, a request from a Z39.50 client for entries 1021-1028 out of a set of 1030 entries may not produce the expected eight Bibliographic records.