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An Extensible Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs

Moen, William E. and Hammer, Sebastian and Taylor, Mike and Thomale, Jason and Yoon, JungWon (2005) An Extensible Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 42, Charlotte (US).

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Abstract

Assessing interoperability in the networked information services and applications environment presents difficult
challenges due in part to the multi-level and multi-faceted aspects of interoperability. Recent research to establish an
interoperability testbed in the context of Z39.50 protocol clients and servers and online catalog applications identified threats to interoperability and defined a question space for interoperability testing. This paper reports on follow-up research to develop an alternative approach for interoperability testing in the context of networked information retrieval that uses specially designed diagnostic records. These records, referred to as radioactive records, enable interoperability assessment at the protocol and semantic levels. This approach appears to offer an extensible method for interoperability testing for other metadata and protocol application environments. The resulting interoperability testbed incorporates additional components to exploit automatic processes for interoperability testing and assessment, thus improving the efficiency of interoperability testing.

Keywords:interoperability ; metadata ; automated processes
Subjects:I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques.
L. Information technology and library technology. > LQ. Library automation systems.
ID Code:5233
Deposited By:Medeiros, Norm
Deposited On:10 March 2006
All fields:Show all fields

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