$Id: README,v 1.2 2007-07-06 15:46:39 mike Exp $
This module implements a program, simple2zoom, which acts as a general-purpose gateway between the two standard information retrieval protocols ANSI/NISO Z39.50-2003 and SRU/SRW. It's not likely that the library modules will be useful for any other purpose.
Information about Z39.50 is available at the maintenancy agency site:
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/document.html
Information about SRU and its brother SRW is available from:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
These in turn rely on the YAZ toolkit's Generic Frontend Server (for the server side) and ZOOM API (for the client side) to handle the Z39.50 and SRU/SRW protocol mechanics.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2007 by Index Data.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.