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I hope -this note finds you all engaged and feeling well. I am pleased to be -able to report, with the following announcement, that Index Data is -advancing the standardization of metasearching in a way that we are -confident will result in significant cost savings for the library community. - -David Dorman - -INDEX DATA DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT SUPPORTS NISO METASEARCH INITIATIVE - -April 5, 2006 - West Hartford, CT - Index Data, the premier developer -of Open Source information retrieval software for libraries and their -vendors, has just signed a contract with Helsinki University Library, -The National Library of Finland, to develop an information retrieval -target monitoring and analysis tool. This software, which is being -released under the name Keystone Target Manager, will be designed to -meet the specifications of the NISO draft standard Z39.92: -Information Retrieval Service Description, which is based on an -earlier community standard called ZeeRex. - -The Keystone Target Manager will perform the following services: - * Automatically monitor a collection of Z39.50/SRW/SRU targets, -maintaining statistics for availability over time. - * Provide configurable alerting services when targets become unavailable. - * Automatically gather information about the search capabilities -of targets that use standard search protocols, such as -Z39.50/SRW/SRU, for use in configuring IR clients of different types. - * Make the gathered information available in a software-readable -form, as a database of ZeeRex (ANSI/NISO Z39.92) records. (This will -enable sharing of this information via the Internet.) -Juha Hakala, Director of Information Technology at Helsinki -University Library and Chair of the NISO Committee which developed -the NISO Z39.92 draft standard, points out that "up to now -information about Z39.50 or SRU/SRW targets has usually been -discovered and documented manually, which is a laborious and time -consuming process. Also, there has been no efficient means of -exchanging this data among metasearch applications such as portals. -While NISO Z39.92, solves the latter problem, the Keystone Target -Manager will simplify the process of creating accurate target -descriptions and keeping them up-to-date." - -"Given the expertise Index Data has in implementing Z39.50 and -SRU/SRW applications," Hakala continued, "I am confident that the -service descriptions generated by the Target Manager will be useful. -It will be interesting to see how quickly the IR portal vendors and -maintenance agencies such as libraries will adopt this target -management tool, and start sharing on a global scale the target -descriptions harvested with it." - -Pat Stevens, the Interim Executive Director of NISO, was delighted to -learn about this agreement: "NISO thanks Helsinki University and -Index Data for their collaborative work on this project," she stated. -"It comes at just the right time as organizations are now looking for -an effective way to implement Z39.92." - -The Keystone Target Manager will be a major step forward in -standardizing and reducing the costs of maintaining target gateways -for metasearch services. Content providers that support standardized -search interfaces, and federated search services that take advantage -of this soon-to-be-released Open Source/Open Access target management -service, will together be able to reduce the cost of providing -federated search services to libraries. If these lower costs are -passed on to libraries in the form of reduced gateway maintenance -fees, libraries will be able to shift costs from access mechanisms to -licensing content. - -About Index Data - -Index Data has been developing standards-based information retrieval -technology since 1994. Library software vendors as varied as Ex -Libris, Fretwell-Downing, Geac, ISACSOFT, Koha and Polaris use Index -Data's technology in the software they provide to libraries. And -libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress and -many other national libraries, use the company's technology and -services to meet demanding and sophisticated information retrieval -challenges. The company's metasearch service, Keystone Retriever, is -among the most advanced in the industry and is distributed under an -Open Source license. - --------------------------------------------------- -LIST MANAGEMENT INFO - -All recipients of this newsletter have been individually and manually -added to the Index Data News Distribution List. If you would like to -be deleted from this list, simply reply to this email with a remove -request and I will remove your name. 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