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ZI-Bot Populates Global Server with ISBN Data from 600+ Libraries

Although the fundamental goal of bibliographic protocol focusses on local ("appropriate copy") bibliographic service, credible global services are also required. Global servers provide default service until local bibp servers are installed, and can also supplement local service with additional metadata and wider coverage.

ZI-Bot (Z39.50/ISN Robot) is our project (initiated May 2001) to populate our prototype global server with ISBN and ISSN data from public Z39.50 servers around the world. Whenever a bibp/ISBN link is created and tested, ZI-Bot initiates a parallel query of approximately 75 Z39.50 servers to generate the first response. Over time, ZI-Bot will enrich the database using known item ISN queries on all Z39.50 servers.

Check out some pages dynamically generated from the populated cache, then make your own!

Bibliographic Protocol: Philosophy and Vision

• The BibP Vision: A Decentralized Bibliographic Service Network
• The BibP Treatment of Intellectual Property: Open Metadata for Copyrighted Content

BibP HOWTO Documents

• Linking 1-2-3: Making BibP Links in Three Easy Steps
• Ultimate User Control: Bibhost Configuration

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Read All About It!

Bibliographic Protocol (BibP) is a web-based protocol for linking to published papers (articles, books, reports) using Universal Serial Item Names as bibliographic identifiers. Try the following BibP links to find out more about it.

• Robert D. Cameron and Serban G. Tatu. "Bibliographic Protocol Level 1: Link Resolution and Metapage Retrieval." Internet Draft draft-cameron-tatu-bibp-03.txt also available in HTML. Note: Internet Drafts are considered unpublished works in progress; therefore there is no BibP link for this document.
• Serban Tatu. "Bibliographic Protocol: Distributed Reference Linking to Document Metaservices on the Web." M.Sc. Thesis, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, July 2000. bibp:RDNS(sfu.ca).CMPT/MSc:2000$SerbanTatu
• Robert D. Cameron. "Towards Universal Serial Item Names," Journal of Digital Information, Volume 1, Number 3, October 1998. bibp:ISSN/1368-7506:1(3)$Cameron
• Robert D. Cameron. "A Universal Citation Database as a Catalyst for Reform in Scholarly Communication." First Monday, Volume 2, No. 4, April 1997. bibp:ISSN/1396-0466:2(4)$cameron

Software

• Client-Side Support for BibP
• BibP Server Software

Project Personnel

• Robert D. Cameron, Principal Investigator and System Architect
• Serban G. Tatu, Server Architect
• Tony Tang, Client Engineer
• Lily Wang, BibP Network Research