Russian Digital Libraries Journal

2002 | Volume 5 | Issue 1

On implementation of digital library using HTTP and Z39.50

Maximov N.V.
Russian State University for the Humanities.

Sysoikina M.A.
Institute on Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences.


Abstract

The subject of this article is implementation of information system with unified access to distributed resources. The investigation focuses on common problems of access to distributed heterogeneous resources and on main components of such system. Special attention is given to different types of information resources: local, remote and associated. This paper presents basic principles of combined application of two protocols - Z39.50 and HTTP. As an example we provide some description of practical realization of such system, based on IRBIS software. This system is now developing at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences.


About Authors

Maximov N.V. - Ph.D., professor, head of chair of Information Resources, Russian State University for the Humanities.

Sysoikina M.A. - Ph.D., programmer, Institute on Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences.
E-mail: maria@inion.ru


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