What: Yaz
Where: http://www.indexdata.com/yaz
http://lamp.cs.utas.edu.au/net.html
ftp://ftp.algonet.se/pub/index/yaz/ir-tcl-1.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/library/z3950/yaz/
Description: A compact toolkit that provides access to the Z39.50/SR
protocol, as well as a set of higher-level tools for implementing
the server and client roles. Provides interfaces to ASN, ODR
and COMSTACK. IrTcl is a Tcl 7.[34] interface to yaz.
Updated: 04/2002
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Index Data)Z39.50 is a IETF defined protocol for communicating with search engines. Not all engines support this protocol...
Z39.50 is an ANSI/NISO Standard. There are some RFC's for Z39.50 though... (one example ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1729.txt ).
Z39.50 is widely used for library catalogue interfaces. Michael Schlenker
[EE]: What is NISO?