AS/NZS 23950:1999

ISO 23950:1998
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Australian/New Zealand Standard™

Information and documentation—

Information retrieval (Z39.50)—
Application service definition
and protocol specification
 AS/NZS 23950:1999
This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical Committee
IT/19, Computer Applications—Information and Documentation. It was approved on
behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 16 February 1999 and on behalf of the
Council of Standards New Zealand on 1 April 1999. It was published on 5 May 1999.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/19:

Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Library and Information Association
Australian Publishers Association
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Australian Z39 Implementors

Council of Australian State Libraries
Council of Australian University Librarians
CSIRO — Corporate Information Management
National Library of Australia
National Library of New Zealand
National University Librarians Association, New Zealand
New Zealand Department for Courts
New Zealand Library and Information Association
Tertiary Library Networks, Australia
Vendor Interests, New Zealand
Victorian Association for Library Automation, Australia
Victoria University, New Zealand

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New Zealand Standards are subject to periodic review and are kept up to date by the issue
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ensure that they are in possession of the latest edition, and any amendments thereto.
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taken.

This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 98575.

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Australian/New Zealand Standard™

Information and documentation—

Information retrieval (Z39.50)—
Application service definition
and protocol specification

Originated as AS/NZS 4279(Int):1995.

Revised and redesignated AS/NZS 23950:1999.

Published jointly by:

Standards Australia
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Homebush NSW 2140 Australia
Standards New Zealand
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee
IT/19, Computer Applications—Information and Documentation, to supersede
AS/NZS 4279(Int):1995. It is identical with, and has been reproduced from, ISO 23950:1998,
Information and documentation—Information retrieval (Z39.50)—Application service definition
and protocol specification.
The objective of this Standard is to provide organizations such as information services,
universities, libraries and union catalogue centres with the information retrieval application
services, protocol definition and support capabilities within an application that in turn are
supported by the Z39.50 protocol allowing the conformance requirements to be met by
implementors of this protocol.
The terms ‘normative’ and ‘informative’ have been used in this Standard to define the
application of the appendix to which they apply. A ‘normative’ appendix is an integral part of a
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Standard, whereas an ‘informative’ appendix is only for information and guidance.

As this Standard is reproduced from an International Standard, the following applies:
Its number does not appear on each page of text and its identity is shown only on the cover
and title page.
In the source text ‘this International Standard’ should read ‘this Australian/New Zealand
Standard’.
A full point should be substituted for a comma when referring to a decimal marker.
References to International Standards should be replaced by reference to equivalent Australian
or Australian/New Zealand Standards, as follows:

Reference to International Standard or other Australian or Australian/New Zealand

publication Standard
ISO AS
2709 Information and documentation— —
Format for information interchange
4217 Codes for the representation of 3759 Codes for the representation of
currencies and funds currencies and funds
AS/NZS
7498 Information processing systems— 2777 Information processing systems—
Open systems interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection
Basic reference model 2777.1 Part 1: The basic model
AS
8649 Information processing systems— 3683 Information processing systems—
Open systems interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Service definition for the association Service definition for the
control service element Association Control Service
Element
8650 Information processing systems— 3684 Information processing systems—
Open systems interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Protocol specification for the Protocol specification for the
association control service element Association Control Service
Element

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ISO AS
8777 Information and documentation—

Commands for interactive text
searching
8822 Information processing systems— 3615 Information processing systems—
Open systems interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Connection oriented presentation Connection oriented presentation
service definition service definition
AS/NZS
8824 Information processing systems— 8824 Information technology—
Open systems interconnection— Abstract syntax notation one
Specification of Abstract Syntax 8824.1 Part 1: Specification of basic
Notation One (ASN.1) notation
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8825 Information processing systems— 8825 Information technology—

Open systems interconnection— ASN.1 encoding rules
Specification of basic encoding rules 8825.1 Part 1: Specification of basic
for Abstract Syntax Notation One encoding rules, canonical
(ASN.1) encoding rules and distinguished
encoding rules
10160 Information and documentation— 4196 Information and documentation—
Open systems interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Interlibrary loan application service Interlibrary loan application
definition service definition
10161 Information and documentation— 4197 Information and documentation—
Open systems interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Interlibrary loan application protocol Interlibrary loan application
specification protocol specification
10161-1 Part 1: Protocol specification 4197.1 Part 1: Protocol specification
10163 Information and documentation— —
Open systems interconnection—
Search and retrieve application
protocol specification
10163-1 Part 1: Protocol specification
ANSI/NISO
Z39.53 Codes for the Representation of —
Languages for Information Interchange
Z39.58 Common Command Language for —
Online Interactive Information
Retrieval
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Application service definition and protocol
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