The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 1: Z39.50; WWW Integration with Z39.50; and Unicode

Abstract

Provides a brief introduction to the UNIverse Project and its major objectives. Gives an overview of the international standards, softwares and systems which will enable bibliographic searching of multiple distributed library catalogues including the Z39.50 standard, WWW gateways, the EUROPAGATE project, the Java programming language and the Unicode World‐wide Character Encoding Standard.

Citation

Clissman, C., Murray, R., Davidson, E., Hands, J., Sijtsma, O., Noordzij, A., Moulton, R., Shanawa, S., Darzentas, J. and Pettman, I. (1997), "The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 1: Z39.50; WWW Integration with Z39.50; and Unicode", New Library World, Vol. 98 No. 7, pp. 267-274. https://doi.org/10.1108/03074809710188798