Addressing Interoperability
Identify searching requirements (tasks)
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Several categories of searching: basic, specialized
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Basic: Author, Title, Subject, Keyword, Boolean
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Specialized: ISBN, Call Number, Specific Controlled Vocabulary
Defining the searches (semantics and behavior)
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Exact Title Search -- exact match beginning with first character of
first word appearing in the title of an item, in the series title, or
the uniform title
Specifying Z39.50 query to represent the search
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Standard combination of Z39.50 Attribute Types and Values
Suggested mapping and indexing of local systems (e.g., MARC fields to index, etc.)