SRW/U as a Lingua Franca in Managing the Diversified Information Resources
Velu Khanaa, R. Udayakumar · 2014
The rapid evolution of information technology and internet has made explosive growth of information resources. The results from different resources are provided in different formats, which make them difficult to search and subsequently merge for providing a federated framework. eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is the 'Lingua Franca': a common language that two computers can use to efficiently speak with one another. Z39.50 protocol was initially developed for bridging the search of the diversified heterogeneous information resources. As the advancement in the technology, Z39.50 protocol has evolved into Search Retrieval Webservices/Uniform resource identifier (SRW/U) protocol. In this paper an SRW/U interface is discussed for providing a common search platform in the diversified heterogeneous applications. The methodology used is the Contextual Query Language (CQL) in the searching technique. The diversified information resources discussed in this paper are KOHA (library automation software), GreenStone Digital Library Software (GSDL) (digital library software) and the pool of information resources created by WAMP (Windows, Apache, Mysql, Php) search.