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Z39.50 Profiles

Procedures governing the maintenance of Profiles
About Profiles

Library Application Profiles Developed for Regional//National Interoperability

• Z Texas Profile -- A Z39.50 Specification for Library Systems Applications in Texas Release 2.0). Texas Z39.50 Implementors Group (TZIG). 2000-09-15
• The CENL Z39.50 profile (Conference of European National Librarians) Version 1.2, 1998-12-14
• Finnish Z39.50 profile Version 1.0; 1998-02-26
• MODELS Library Interoperability Profile Family;Version 1.3; 1997-04-03
• BIB-1 profile for ONE; Version 1; 1997-01-09
• Profil Z3950 Du Catalogue Collectif De France Version 3; 1995

Other Library Application Profiles

• The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery; Version 1.1; June 2000. Internationally Registered Profile
• Union Catalogue Profile (National Library of Australia) 1999-06 version 1999-11 version (word) Internationally Registered Profile
• Z39.50/ILL Profile 1 Profile for the Use of Z39.50 Item Order Extended Service to Transport ILL Protocol APDUs; 1996-04-11 (PDF)
• Z39.50/ILL Profile 2 Profile for the Use of Parameters from the ILL-Request APDU in Z39.50 Item Order; 1996-09-13 (PDF)

Other Application Profiles

• Z39.50 Application Profile for Geospatial Metadata -- Geo Profile; Version 2.2; 1999-04-19.
• Catalogue Interoperability Protocol (CIP) Profile 1998-06
• Z39.50 Application Profile for Cultural Heritage Information -- CIMI Profile; Release 1.0; 1998-03-01 Internationally Registered Profile
• GILS profile Version 2, 1997-11-24
• Z39.50 for Access to Cultural Heritage Information -- Aquarelle Profile; Current status unclear, most recent known version: Version 0.2; 1997-07
  also available in postScript
• WAIS profile Version 1.4; 1994
• Z+SQL Profile February 2000

Application-Support Profiles

• Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus NavigationVersion 0.3b; 1999-07-26
• Z39.50 Profile for Access to Digital Collections Draft Seven; 1996-05-03

Architectural-Support Profiles

• Profile for Z39.50 over HTTP(Discussion Paper); Second Draft; 1999-04-07
• Using Z39.50- 1992 Directly over TCP 1994-04

Historical Profiles, Not Currently Maintained

• ZDSR: Z39.50 Profile for Simple Distributed Search and Ranked Retrieval
  (Also available in postScript)
• DL (Z39.50 Profile for Access to Digital Library Objects)
• the ATS-1 profile