Z39.50 Examples

• Library of Congress gateways to many library catalogs

• NASA Global Change Master Directory

• Global Information Locator Service (GILS)

  • self-description of content

  • mandated for government sites

  • 60 out of tens of thousands

• SILO evaluation is mixed

• MUSE Global both Z39.50 & metasearch

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