From: Denise A Troll ZIG ATTENDANCE and STATUS REPORTS Organized by country for easy reference and an interesting overview of the Brussels 1996 ZIG meeting. Within each country section, the attendance list is presented first, followed by status reports. 1. AUSTRALIA Lesley Bezear, National Library of Australia (lbezear@nla.gov.au) Kerry Blinco, Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (K.Blinco@gu.edu.au) Sonya Finnigan, Distributed Systems Technology Centre (sonya@dstc.edu.au) Janifer Gatenby, Stowe Computing, Australia (100625.1240@compuserve.com) LESLEY BEZEAR (National Library of Australia) - Joint project with New Zealand; using extended services database update. SONYA FINNIGAN (Australia corporate research center) - Interested in incorporating SQL query capabilities into Z39.50 standard; prototype available called ~ZINC,~ based on YAZ toolkit client; demo up and running. JANIFER GATENBY (Stowe Computing, Australia) - Z39.50 v3 client and server to be released end of 1996. Also working on cataloging client and developing a profile. 2. AUSTRIA Marko Kusej, Joanneum Research (kusej@pbox.joanneum.ac.at) MARKO KUSEJ (Joanneum Research) - V3 test target over TCP/IP. Available interface between Z39.50 and relational SQL databases. Explain server implementtaion using a relational SQL database. Participating in the European ONE project. Working with Logica and DLR on the development of a CIP Demonstrator. Planning to develop implementations for libraries, museums and archives. 3. BELGIUM Jan Braeckman, LIBIS-Net (jan.braeckman@libis.kuleuven.ac.be) Koen Jacobs, LIBIS-Net KULeuven (Koen.Jacobs@libis.kuleuven.ac.be) Dirk Kinnaes, LIBIS-Net KULeuven (Dirk.Kinnaes@libis.kuleuven.ac.be) Jo Rademakers, LIBIS-Net (jan.braeckman@libis.kuleuven.ac.be) Antoinette Lemaire, Universite catholique de Louvain (lemaire@sia.ucl.ac.be) Jean-Luc Martou, Universite catholique de Louvain (martou@sia.ucl.ac.be) Paula Goossens, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (paula.goossens@kbr.be) Elisabeth Mazur-Rzesos, Bibliotheque Royale (elisabeth.mazur@kbr.be) Jacques Rega, EWOS (jacques.rega@ewos.be) Karen Stables-Andersson, EWOS (karen.stables-andersson@ewos.be) Dirk Vervenne, Bikit (dirk.vervenne@rug.ac.be) JAN BRAECKMAN, KOEN JACOBS, DIRK KINNAES, JO RADEMAKERS (LIBIS-Net, Belgium) - network of academic Belgium libraries, Z39.50 server and gateway, developing Z39.50 Web-based OPAC. ELISABETH MAZUR-RZESOS (Royal Library of Brussels) - Ordering Z39.50 service. 4. CANADA Fay Turner, National Library of Canada (fay.turner@nlc-bnc.ca) Johan Zeeman, CGI Group (zeeman@fox.nstn.ca) Pieter Van Lierop (pvl@paris1po.geac.fr) FAY TURNER (National Library of Canada) - Developing virtual Canadian union catalog with standardized holdings information in MARC record. Working on multi-departmental GILS project to describe resources. Revised the NARA GILS Guidelines for the Canadian Pilot Project to reflect Canadian requirements and to incorporate changes in version 2 of the GILS profile. JOE ZEEMAN (CGI Group) - Working with National Library of Canada. Marketing Z39.50 clients and servers. Working on Z39.50 access to SQL databases; currently implementing SUTRS and GRS-1 to move to v3 in a month or so. Supplying client to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to access patents via MSI. PIETER VAN LIEROP (GEAC) - Geac has the following Z39.50 products (all version 3): GEOPAC client for OPAC and for Information Retrieval, version 2.00 released in November 1996; GEOCAT client for Cataloguing, version 1.00 released in November 1996; PLUS server: version 2.5.5 released in November 1996; ADVANCE server. All products can handle Search, Present and Scan. GEOCAT and ADVANCE use the ExtendedService for DatabaseUpdate. GEOCAT is operational for cataloguing at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and at the University of Oxford (UK). 5. CZECHOSLOVAKIA Jiri Brixi, Parliamentary Library (brixi@psp.cz) Hana Vrbikova, Parliamentary Library (vrbikova@psp.cz) Vladimir Horak, Charles University Prague (vladimir.horak@ruk.cuni.cz) Pavel Krbec, Charles University Prague (krbec@cuni.cz) Dana Simkova, Charles University Prague (dana@cuni.cz) 6. DENMARK Erik Bertelsen, UNI-C (Erik.bertelsen@uni-c.dk) Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, UNI-C (birte.christensen-dalsgaard@uni-c.dk) Arne Sorensen, UNI-C (Arne.sorensen@uni-c.dk) Adam Dickmeiss, Index Data (adam@index.ping.dk) Sebastian Hammer, Index Data (quinn@index.ping.dk) Poul Henrik Jorgensen, Danish Library Centre (phj@dbc.bib.dk) Steen Thomassen, Danish Library Centre (sat@dbc.dk) Erik Lorenz-Petersen, Fischer & Lorenz (elp@fl.dk) Klaus Sondergaard, Danish Standards (ksoe@ds.dk) ERIK BERTELSEN, BIRTE CHRISTENSEN-DALSGAARD, ARNE SORENSEN (UNI-C, Denmark) - Socker project (demo tomorrow at 5:00); Paragon project; version 3 gateway between Web and Z39.50. SEBASTIAN HAMMER, ADAM DICKMEISS (Index Data, Denmark) - DevelopingYAZ toolkit v3. Also involved in several projects and providing consulting services. POUL HENRIK JORGENSEN, STEEN THOMASSEN (Danish Library Centre) - Socker project; implemented SR targets and origins. ONE project Z39.50 v3 target. ERIK LORENZ-PETERSEN (Fischer & Lorenz) - Telecommunications consulting company; studying client-server migration in the library environment; helping Danish libraries with internet access and ISDN. 7. FINLAND Juha Hakala, TKAY (Juha.hakala@helsinki.fi) JUHA HAKALA (National Library of Finland) - ONE project. Union catalog accessible to partners via Z39.50. 8. FRANCE Gaelle Bequet, Ministere de la culture (bequet@opera.culture.fr) Lise Bessette, Bibliothhque nationale de France (lise.bessette@bnf.fr) Pol Gouriou, Bibliotheque nationale de France (pol.gouriou@bnf.fr) Dominique Lahary, Bibliotheque dipartementale du Val d'Oise (lahary@cg95.fr) Badra Lamia, Enssib, Lyon (badra@enssibhp.enssib.fr) Bruno Landi, INIST/CNRS (landi@inist.fr) Danielle Roger, Enssib, Lyon (roger@enssib.fr) Francois Role, French Ministry of Higher Education (role@distb.mesr.fr) Laurent Schmitt, INIST/CNRS (schmitt@inist.fr) Philippe Vaisse, ABES (vaisse@abes.fr) GAELLE BEQUET (French Ministry of Culture) - Learning more about Z39.50. LISE BESSETTE, POL GOURIOU (National Library of France) - Implementing Web-Z39.50 gateway; search catalog of national library, universities, and other collections. DOMINIQUE LAHARY (Bibliotek) - French public and university libraries. *** ? (French school of library and information science) - Developing gateways and applications. 9. GERMANY Harald Kappus, DV Consulting (Kappus@FIZ-Karlsruhe.de) Dorit Rottner, DV Consulting (rottner@fiz-karlsruhe.de) Ute Rusnak, FIZ Karlsruhe (ur@fiz-karlsruhe.de) HARALD KAPPUS, DORIT ROTTNER, UTE RUSNAK (Fiz-Karlsruhe, Germany) - European service center providing access to 200 sci-tech databases; implemented v3 origin and target; partner in German Library Project. Gateway to OCLC WorldCat will be available late October to STN users. Planning to implement item order for end of first quarter 1997. 10. ICELAND Andrea Johannsdottir, National Library in Iceland (andrea@bok.hi.is) 11. ITALY Luca Borsari, Team Software Srl (buca@mocdas2.cedoc.unimo.it) Massimo Caracciolo, Teknesis s.r.l. (teknesis@teknesis.nexus.it) Alberto Catoni, Intecs Sistemi (catoni@pisa.intecs.it) John Favaro, Intecs Sistemi (favaro@pisa.intecs.it) Luca Lelli, Finsiel S.p.A. (lelli@tecsiel.it) Mario Loffredo, C.N.R.- CNUCE (m.loffredo@cnuce.cnr.it) Oreste Signore, C.N.R.- CNUCE (o.signore@cnuce.cnr.it) Pier Giorgio, Marchetti, European Space Agency (pmarchetti@esrin.esa.it) Simon Marshall, SERCo Servizi, European Space Agency (Simon.Marshall@esrin.esa.it) JOHN FAVARO, ALBERTO CATONI (Intecs Sistemi) - ARCA project; southern European consortium (Italy and Spain) implementing Z39.50 clients and targets PIER GIORGIO, GERHARD TRIEBNIG (European Space Agency) - Z39.50 gateway in production; developing client; working on Explain. BRIDGE project by EU; gateway; MIRO; working with Robert Bull. SIMON MARSHALL (ESRIN, Italy) - Member of CEOS (Committee on Earch Observation Satellites) PTT (Protocol Task Team) which is developing the CIP (Catalogue Interoperability Protocol) Specification, including a Z39.50 profile. The CIP is intended so that multiple space agencies/providers can make their EO (Earth Observation) data available to users in a coherent manner. Implementations of CIP have begun; Simon is implementing a translator between a local image archive and CIP/Z39.50. *** ? (National Research Council in Italy) - Developing v3 target and Z39.50-SQL gateway. LUCA LELLI, Finsiel-Italy - involved with OPAC access (index of Italian libraries); interested in art and multimedia objects; developing Z39.50 target and origin for Unix and Windows 12. LUXEMBURG GORDON PEDERSON ? (Consultant, Luxemburg) - Library program of the EC; more than 10 projects implementing parts of Z39.50 v3; issue calls for ideas. 13. NETHERLANDS Hans van den Dool, Tilburg University Library (H.M.vdnDool@kub.nl) Roelant de Cock, Tilburg University Library (rdecock@kub.nl) Thomas Place, Tilburg University Library (t.w.place@kub.nl) Hans van den Dool, Tilburg University Library (h.m.vdndool@kub.nl) Makx Dekkers, Pica (dekkers@pica.nl) Roelant Ossewaarde, Denver museum of Art (roelanto@utopia.knoware.nl) Jan van der Weerd, CRI (j.c.van_der_weerd@cri.leidenuniv.nl) Marten van der Woude, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology (m.v.d.woude@urc.tue.nl) Peer Verkissen, Eindhoven University of Technology (rcpeer@urc.tue.nl) Theo van Veen, University Library Utrecht (T.van Veen@ubu.ruu.nl) MAKX DEKKERS (PICA) - Version 3 target is operational using API library produced in German Library Project (GLP); gateway client ready and being installed. Involved in three projects: (1) GLP testing Item Order in Z39.50, (2) ONE project (national libraries of Europe) trial period for searching libraries in Europe, working on Explain, (3) project to integrate Z39.50 searching with document access on the web. Two clients (VT100 ~OpenCat~ and WebOPC, which is a Web client gateway). Access SiteSearch databases; starting tests with SilverPlatter databases. HANS VAN DEN DOOL, ROELANT DE COCK, THOMAS PLACE (Tilburg University Library, Netherlands) - Using YAZ; DECUMA project. Using Z39.50 with full-text and to integrate their databases with SilverPlatter. Planning to use Z39.50 to retrieve from small graphical databases. THEI VAN VEEN (University Library, Utrecht) - Looking at using Z39.50. 14. NORWAY Liv Aasa Holm, BRODD - Oslo College (Liv.A.Holm@brodd.hioslo.no) Ole Husby, BIBSYS (ole.husby@bibsys.no ) Torstein Tjelta, University of Oslo (torstein.tjelta@ub.uio.no) LIV HOLM (Oslo College, Norway) - German Library Project; project manager for ONE (Opac Network in Europe). Doing item order, Explain. Note: although BRODD is not otherwise connected with the German OSI project, we are building on their results, and Die Deutsche Bibliothek is a partner in ONE so they get our results as well. That way the final product from DBV-OSI (Germany) and ONE will include the same services/facilities. Ole Husby (BIBSYS): BIBSYS is a partner in ONE offering both a v.3 server and an integrated client. Torstein Tjelta (UBO, University Library of Oslo): UBO is a partner in ONE. They have a v.3 server, but not an integrated client yet. 15. SWEDEN Ulf Ellestrom, Bibliotekstjanst AB (ellestrom_ulf@mail.btj.se) Svante Hallgren, Bibliotekstjdnst AB (hallgren_svante@mail.btj.se) Thorsten Jakobsson, Axiell Bibliotekssystem AB (thorsten@axiell.se) Anders Janmyr, Bibliotekstjanst AB (janmyr_anders@mail.btj.se) Mats Jarl, Bibliotekstjanst AB (jarl_mats@mail.btj.se) Birgitta Kaving, Sema Group InfoData AB (birgitta.kaving@infodata.sema.se) Lars Klasin, Sema Group InfoData AB (lars.klasen@infodata.sema.se) Lars-Gunnar Olsson, Kungliga Biblioteket (Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@libris.kb.se) Johan Palm, Swedish Parliament, (johan.palm@riksdagen.se) Anders Sundstrom, The Royal Library (LIBRIS Dpt (anders@sunstone.se ) LARS-GUNNAR OLSSON (Royal Library, Sweden, LIBRIS department) - We are building a version 3 target containing our union catalog as part of the ONE project. *** ? (Sweden) - Want to learn about Z39.50 because need it in public libraries. *** ? (Sweden) - Z39.50 access to local and other commercial databases; also SS - stateful web gateway. 16. UNITED KINGDOM Robert Bull, Crossnet Systems (bull@sun002.sil.com) Jim Burton, BLCMP Library Services (j.p.burton@blcmp.org.uk) Geoff Butters, University of Central Lancashire (g.w.butters@uclan.ac.uk) David Cairns, University of Stirling (dec1@stir.ac.uk) Steve Clews, University of London Library (sclews@ull.ac.uk) Shirley Cousins, University of Manchester (s.a.cousins@mcc.ac.uk) Ashley Sanders, University of Manchester (a.sanders@mcc.ac.uk) Edward Davidson, SLS (davidson_e@sls.co.uk) Christopher Easingwood, The British Library (christopher.easingwood@bl.uk) David Grinyer, The British Library (david.grinyer@british-library.uk) Neil Smith, The British Library (neil.smith@bl.uk) Mike Wheatley, The British Library (Mike.Wheatley@bl.uk) Stewart Granger, Vasari Enterprises (stewartg@cix.compulink.co.uk) Bill Handley, BIDS (W.G.Handley@bath.ac.uk) Stuart Mills, Logica UK Ltd (millss@logica.com) Ruth Moulton, JEDDS (ruth@muswell.demon.ac.uk) Michael Selway, System Simulation Ltd (mas@ssl.co.uk) Trudy Watson, CLRC (t.watson@rl.ac.uk) Chris Makemson, CMC, (c.makemson@eurokom.ie) ROBERT BULL (Crossnet Systems, previously the computing division of Satellites International, UK) - MIRO project for European Space Agency; CIP profile prototype demo available. Responsible for coding German Library Project DBV OSI II API, recently expanded to include Item Order/ILL PDUs, and no fully incorporating Explain, resource control, access control, and trigger resource control. Has been ported from UNIX to Windows WIN32s; is now being ported to Windows NT. Developing a stand-alone client for the European ONE project. Working on incorporating the character-set negotiation record in the DBV OSI II API. JIM BURTON (BLCMP Library Service, UK) - Old v2 server. Starting to upgrade to v3 and provide Web gateway. STEVE CLEWS (University of London Library) - Possible implementations of Digital Library Objects profiles. CHRISTOPHER EASINGWOOD, DAVID GRINYER, NEIL SMITH, MIKE WHEATLEY (British Library) - Project CHASE; uilding v3 target for ONE project, Project Universe (with several organizations). To implement Z39.50 servers and ILL protocol to integrate access. MICHAEL SELWAY (Systems Simulation Ltd, London) - Product called Index-Plus. CHRIS MAKEMSON (CMC) - (Chris ran the half-day tutorial on character sets) 17. UNITED STATES Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress (ray@rden.loc.gov) Ralph Orlik, Library of Congress (orlik@mail.loc.gov) Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates (sean@dra.com) Wayne Davison, The Research Libraries Group (bb.wed@rlg.ord) Richard Fuchs, Research Libraries Group, Inc. (rbf@lyra.rlg.org) Mark Hinnebusch, Florida Center for Library Automation (mark@mark.fcla.ufl.edu) Craig Jackson, Information Access Company (Craig_Jackson@iacnet.com) John A., Kunze, National Library of Medicine (jak@ckm.ucsf.edu) Ralph LeVan, OCLC (rrl@oclc.org) David Loy, Knight-Ridder Information (loy@krinfo.com) Denis Lynch, SilverPlatter Information, Inc. (denisl@silverplatter.com) Bradley McLean, SilverPlatter Information, Inc. (bradm@silverplatter.com) William Moen, CIMI (wem0002@jove.acs.unt.edu) Nassib Nassar, MCNC/CNIDR (nrn@cnidr.org) Mark Needleman, University of California (mhn@dla.ucop.edu) Cecilia M. Preston (cecilia@well.com) Sara Randall, Independent (srandall@mcs.net) Margaret St Pierre, Blue Angel Technologies (saint@bluangel.com) Stuart Soffer, Taliesin Software Research (Inc. (soffer@tsri.com) Kevin Thomas, OVID Technologies (kevint@psyche.ovid.com) Margery Tibbetts, University of California (margery.tibbetts@ucop.edu) Denise Troll, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries (troll+@andrew.cmu.edu) David Venckus, Ameritech library Services (dvenckus@als.ameritech.com) Robert Waldstein, Lucent Technologies (wald@lucent.com) Les Wibberley, Chemical Abstracts Service (les.wibb@cas.org) RAY DENENBERG, RALPH ORLICK (Library of Congress) - LC is implementor and Maintenance Agency for Z39.50. Z39.50 version 2 client for catalogers using RLG database and resource files from Europe on SiteSearch servers. Also have v2 server and Web gateway. LC has initiatives with Z39.50 access to digital library (DL) collections; working with M. St. Pierre on GILS server, v3 server, and maybe DL profile. RICHARD FUCHS, WAYNE DAVISON (Research Libraries Group) - Version 2 server for several years; Eureka (telnet/VT100 search service); soon a Web-based client with ISITE software. Using Z39.50 for batch reconversion projects with a branch of Ameritech. Plan to add client to online technical processing system to enable access to other servers from technical environment.MARGARET ST. PIERRE (Blue Angel) - Z39.50 consulting work; working with the Library of Congress to build GILS-compliant server. MARK HINNEBUSCH (FCLA) - Version 2 server. Not much Z39.50 development lately, but just started new projects with IAC and SilverPlatter. Will support STARTS profile. CRAIG JACKSON (IAC) - Z39.50 v2 server (InfoTrac databases); looking at doing GRS-1 for special project. JOHN KUNZE (U.S. National Library of Medicine & University of California) - Provide Z39.50 server to Medline; no user interface designed; low usage. Built Web-Z39.50 gateway to Medline at UC. RALPH LEVAN (OCLC) - Three developments: (1) FirstSearch (commercial service with 100 databases, 33% usage is Z39.50, peak of 1000 simultaneous Z39.50 users); (2) SiteSearch server (available for about 4 years) and WebZ gateway; added ability to search multiple databases at once for big ten colleges; (3) intend to support cataloging with Z39.50 Update extended service. CLIFF LYNCH (University of California) - Z39.50 client and server applications in production; provide access to union catalog and many licensed A&I databases (local or at RLG or OCLC). Current server is v2, but plan to upgrade to minimal v3 by mid-summer 1997. Also using Z39.50 to pull circulation information from integrated library systems on different campuses. Building a large application that talks Z39.50 and HTML (more than a gateway) to provide access to internal and external databases; in limited testing now. DENIS LYNCH (SilverPlatter) - Version 3 server that does Explain, supports GRS, etc. [I know Denis is in London now, but for some reason I couldn't put him in the UK group.] BILL MOEN (University of North Texas) - CIMI and project CHIO: using Z39.50 to search and retrieve cultural and museum information. Government contract to evaluate GILS implementation and Z39.50. Press release available. NASSIB NASSAR (CNIDR) - C++ and ISITE Z39.50 library and server implementation; several projects built on top of it. STUART SOFFER (Taliesin Software Research, Inc) - Consultants on Windows NT; market Z39.50 server as native NT service. KEVIN THOMAS (Ovid) - Version 3 client and server; clients for Windows and Web; servers are Windows NT and UNIX. MAJORIE TIBBETTS (University of California) - Server includes resource control, but need clients to test it. Implemented Mesh as separate database DENISE TROLL (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries) - Working on interoperability of Sirsi-Unicorn Z39.50 clients and OCLC SiteSearch Z39.50 servers. DAVID VENCKUS (Ameritech) - Several products; Web-based and Windows Z39.50 clients available; working on Explain and Z39.50 API. BOB WALDSTEIN (Lucent Technologies, AT&T) - Z39.50 used internally; end users use the Web and gateways to z39.50 servers. LES WIBBERLEY (CAS) - Version 3 client and server in production; client is called ~SciFinder~ for professional chemists (supports U.S. Patent Office); server is gateway to Messenger mainframe search system. Developed stateful Web-Z39.50 infrastructure for chemical full text (patent database). 18. OTHER ATTENDEES and STATUS REPORTS WITHOUT HOMES (Sorry, I couldn't place them in a country.) Christopher de Joux, Clifford Chance (Christopher.de_Joux@CliffordChance.com ) Jacques Kergomard, OPSYS (opsys@dial.oleanne.com) Thomas Weir, OECD (thomas.weir@oecd.org) Edward Zimmerman, BSn Munich (edz@bsn.com) *** (?) - Selling public library software; learning about Z39.50. *** (?) - Version 3 client for internal users (librarians); operate target; moving to OSI platform; server is available for free. BILL KESER (?) - To learn and collect information about Z39.50. ERIC PATTERSON [Erik Petersen?] (?) - Upgrading software to implement Z39.50.