An Alternative Approach to Interoperability Testing

Presentation for the 2005 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses an alternative approach to interoperability testing and the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs.
Date: November 1, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E. & Yoon, JungWon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Radioactive Metadata Records: An Interoperability Testing Approach Based on Metadata Utilization

This presentation discusses radioactive metadata records and an interoperability testing approach based on metadata utilization. The research is part of Z-Interop, an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences' (IMLS) National Leadership Grant supported project.
Date: October 18, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report for The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project Phase 2: Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers (open access)

Final Report for The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project Phase 2: Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers

Final report for the Z39.50 interoperability testbed project, phase 2.
Date: December 3, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.; Thomale, Jason & Yoon, JungWon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers (open access)

Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers

Paper describing a plan of work to develop and test an alternative approach for interoperability testing. This approach builds on the conceptual and technical infrastructure developed during the Z-Interop Project.
Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Z-Interop 2 Project Search and Record Data Requirements for Z39.50 Interoperability Testing Using Radioactive MARC Records (open access)

Z-Interop 2 Project Search and Record Data Requirements for Z39.50 Interoperability Testing Using Radioactive MARC Records

This document is a draft version of the Z-Interop 2 project search and record data requirements for Z39.50 interoperability testing using radioactive MARC records.
Date: September 15, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E. & Benardino, Penelope
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services July 1 through December 31, 2002 (open access)

Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services July 1 through December 31, 2002

This document provides a status report on the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (Z-Interop) covering the period of July 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. The previous status report covered a three-month period from April 1, 2002 through June 30, 2002. This document highlights activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress on this project since the last status report.
Date: January 1, 2003
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services July 1 through December 31, 2004 (open access)

Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services July 1 through December 31, 2004

This document serves as an interim report on the Z39.50 interoperability testbed, Phase 2 of the Z-Interop Project. This report covers the period of July 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004. This document highlights activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress on the project since the interim report on July 1, 2004.
Date: January 1, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ten Month Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services May 1, 2001 through March 31, 2002 (open access)

Ten Month Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services May 1, 2001 through March 31, 2002

This document provides a status report on the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (Z-Interop) covering the period of May 1, 2000 through March 31, 2002. Due to a family medical emergency, the Principal Investigator was not able to complete the six-month status report that was due December 1, 2001. The Principal Investigator (PI) communicated with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staff about this situation, and had sent via email in November 2001 information about the progress of the project.
Date: March 31, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project Work Plan Draft (open access)

Project Work Plan Draft

This document details a work plan to guide the planning and execution of a new phase of the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project.
Date: June 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
ZDoctor Report of SIRSI Indexing Policies for Interoperability Testing: Phase 1 Testing (open access)

ZDoctor Report of SIRSI Indexing Policies for Interoperability Testing: Phase 1 Testing

This document discusses phase 1 of interoperability testing as part of the Z-Interop project.
Date: November 1, 2001
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis Logic and Procedures for Creating a Test Dataset of MARC 21 Records for the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed: Phase 1 Testing (open access)

Analysis Logic and Procedures for Creating a Test Dataset of MARC 21 Records for the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed: Phase 1 Testing

Report on the logic and procedures to create a test dataset of more than 400,000 (400K) MARC 21 records from the OCLC WorldCat database.
Date: January 1, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E. & Holmes, Haley K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decomposing MARC 21 Records for Analysis (open access)

Decomposing MARC 21 Records for Analysis

This document discusses decomposing MARC 21 records for analysis. To prepare the test dataset of the 1% sample of MARC 21 records from the WorldCat database for use in the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed, the authors need to be able to efficiently analyze the records to determine relevant records to be returned for a set of test searches. The first step in that analysis is to determine the occurrence of test search terms in specific records. This document describes the general approach for this analysis and identifies specifications for the analysis.
Date: October 1, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indexing Guidelines to Support Z39.50 Profile Searches (open access)

Indexing Guidelines to Support Z39.50 Profile Searches

This document provides guidelines for indexing MARC 21 records to support a set of searches using Z39.50. The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (Z-Interop) uses these guidelines to index the 400,000 MARC 21 records that comprise the Z-Interop reference implementation of the Z39.50 server and online catalog.
Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report for the Z-Interop Project The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed (open access)

Interim Report for the Z-Interop Project The Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed

This report discusses the Z39.50 interoperability testbed and serves as an interim report for the Z-Interop Project as of December 31, 2003.
Date: December 31, 2003
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Z39.50 Interoperability Testing Framework for Online Library Catalogs Using Radioactive MARC Records (open access)

Z39.50 Interoperability Testing Framework for Online Library Catalogs Using Radioactive MARC Records

This document discusses a Z39.50 Interoperability Testing framework. In a first phase of the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed, a large dataset of MARC records was used. In this work, the authors are exploring how a set of special, diagnostic MARC records can be developed and used to identify interoperability problems between a Z39.50 client and a Z39.50 server providing access to a database of bibliographic records supporting the search and retrieval functions of an online library catalog. The authors refer to these special, diagnostic records as radioactive MARC records. It discusses the various components and identifies the tasks related to developing and implementing the components.
Date: June 20, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating Radioactive MARC Records and Z Queries Using the MARCdocs Database (open access)

Creating Radioactive MARC Records and Z Queries Using the MARCdocs Database

This document describes how the authors can extend a relational database of MARC documentation to store the appropriate information that will support the automatic generation of the special, diagnostic MARC records the authors will call radioactive MARC (RadMARC) records. The information contained in the database will also support the generation of the Z queries used in the interoperability testing.
Date: December 2, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
MARCdocs: The MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Database (open access)

MARCdocs: The MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Database

Report on the MARC 21 bibliographic format database.
Date: October 28, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E. & Thomale, Jason
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Normalization Procedures on Decomposed MARC 21 Records (open access)

Data Normalization Procedures on Decomposed MARC 21 Records

In this document, the authors present some aspects of data normalization of the decomposed records to improve the results of analysis. The data normalization processes use pattern-matching techniques to eliminate and/or generalize anomalous characters and terms. Since the unit of analysis in preparing the test dataset of 400,000 MARC 21 records is a "word," there was a need for data normalization to provide reliability in the subsequent analysis.
Date: October 25, 2001
Creator: Kim, Ed & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Z-Interop Interoperability Testing Policies and Procedures: Phase 1 Testing (open access)

Z-Interop Interoperability Testing Policies and Procedures: Phase 1 Testing

This document provides an overview and the details of policies and procedures of the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (referred to as Z-Interop). Specifically, the document lays out the responsibilities and obligations of the Z-Interop testbed and the organizations that participate in interoperability testing. For purposes of this document, Z-Interop staff refers to all members of the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project. Z-Interop participant refers to an individual or organization who tests its Z39.50 client or Z39.50 server through the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed.
Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Procedures for Issuing Test Searches from Z-Interop Testbed Participant's Z-Client: Phase 1 (open access)

Procedures for Issuing Test Searches from Z-Interop Testbed Participant's Z-Client: Phase 1

This document describes the procedures that participants in the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed (Z-Interop Participant) are to use when testing Z39.50 client (Z-client) applications. The testing of a Z-Interop reference implementation Z39.50 server. Specifically, the attribute combination and other query components (e.g., Boolean operators) are reviewed, and a report of the results will be prepared for each Z-Interop participant.
Date: October 1, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioactive MARC Records Specifications (open access)

Radioactive MARC Records Specifications

This document provides the preliminary specifications for the different RadMARC records to be created for use in the Z-Interop2 interoperability testbed. Experience with these records may result in revisions to the specifications.
Date: January 1, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
SQL Data Analysis Procedures to Create Aggregate and Candidate Record Groups on Sample of Decomposed MARC Records Phase 1 Testing (open access)

SQL Data Analysis Procedures to Create Aggregate and Candidate Record Groups on Sample of Decomposed MARC Records Phase 1 Testing

This document describes the data analysis procedures developed to create the Aggregate and Candidate Record Groups using SQL statements. This is the preliminary version of these procedures tested and validated on a sample of decomposed MARC records. (For a description of how the MARC records were decomposed see the Z-Interop document, Decomposing MARC 21 Records for Analysis. A subsequent version may be necessary as the authors move to the procedures for the entire file of decomposed records.
Date: October 14, 2001
Creator: Yoon, JungWon & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services (open access)

Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services

This document serves as an interim report on the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project, Phase 2 (Z-Interop2), covering the period of January 1, 2005 through June 30, 2005. This document highlights activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress about the project since the interim report on January 1, 2005.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Six Month Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services (open access)

Six Month Status Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services

This document provides a status report on the Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project (Z-Interop) covering the period of December 1, 2000 through April 30, 2001. The authors highlight activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress on their project. This period can be considered a project startup period.
Date: May 27, 2001
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library