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66 Hello to everyone on my Index Data news distribution list. I hope
67 this note finds you all engaged and feeling well. I am pleased to be
68 able to report, with the following announcement, that Index Data is
69 advancing the standardization of metasearching in a way that we are
70 confident will result in significant cost savings for the library community.
74 INDEX DATA DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT SUPPORTS NISO METASEARCH INITIATIVE
76 April 5, 2006 - West Hartford, CT - Index Data, the premier developer
77 of Open Source information retrieval software for libraries and their
78 vendors, has just signed a contract with Helsinki University Library,
79 The National Library of Finland, to develop an information retrieval
80 target monitoring and analysis tool. This software, which is being
81 released under the name Keystone Target Manager, will be designed to
82 meet the specifications of the NISO draft standard Z39.92:
83 Information Retrieval Service Description, which is based on an
84 earlier community standard called ZeeRex.
86 The Keystone Target Manager will perform the following services:
87 * Automatically monitor a collection of Z39.50/SRW/SRU targets,
88 maintaining statistics for availability over time.
89 * Provide configurable alerting services when targets become unavailable.
90 * Automatically gather information about the search capabilities
91 of targets that use standard search protocols, such as
92 Z39.50/SRW/SRU, for use in configuring IR clients of different types.
93 * Make the gathered information available in a software-readable
94 form, as a database of ZeeRex (ANSI/NISO Z39.92) records. (This will
95 enable sharing of this information via the Internet.)
96 Juha Hakala, Director of Information Technology at Helsinki
97 University Library and Chair of the NISO Committee which developed
98 the NISO Z39.92 draft standard, points out that "up to now
99 information about Z39.50 or SRU/SRW targets has usually been
100 discovered and documented manually, which is a laborious and time
101 consuming process. Also, there has been no efficient means of
102 exchanging this data among metasearch applications such as portals.
103 While NISO Z39.92, solves the latter problem, the Keystone Target
104 Manager will simplify the process of creating accurate target
105 descriptions and keeping them up-to-date."
107 "Given the expertise Index Data has in implementing Z39.50 and
108 SRU/SRW applications," Hakala continued, "I am confident that the
109 service descriptions generated by the Target Manager will be useful.
110 It will be interesting to see how quickly the IR portal vendors and
111 maintenance agencies such as libraries will adopt this target
112 management tool, and start sharing on a global scale the target
113 descriptions harvested with it."
115 Pat Stevens, the Interim Executive Director of NISO, was delighted to
116 learn about this agreement: "NISO thanks Helsinki University and
117 Index Data for their collaborative work on this project," she stated.
118 "It comes at just the right time as organizations are now looking for
119 an effective way to implement Z39.92."
121 The Keystone Target Manager will be a major step forward in
122 standardizing and reducing the costs of maintaining target gateways
123 for metasearch services. Content providers that support standardized
124 search interfaces, and federated search services that take advantage
125 of this soon-to-be-released Open Source/Open Access target management
126 service, will together be able to reduce the cost of providing
127 federated search services to libraries. If these lower costs are
128 passed on to libraries in the form of reduced gateway maintenance
129 fees, libraries will be able to shift costs from access mechanisms to
134 Index Data has been developing standards-based information retrieval
135 technology since 1994. Library software vendors as varied as Ex
136 Libris, Fretwell-Downing, Geac, ISACSOFT, Koha and Polaris use Index
137 Data's technology in the software they provide to libraries. And
138 libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress and
139 many other national libraries, use the company's technology and
140 services to meet demanding and sophisticated information retrieval
141 challenges. The company's metasearch service, Keystone Retriever, is
142 among the most advanced in the industry and is distributed under an
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