CFM Master Class
Jeff Graubart, Team Leader Z39.50 Development
Ameritech Library Services

 
  1. Z39.50
    1. Information search and retrieval
    2. LC maintenance agency home page: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency
  2. The connection CFM
    1. Atoms
      1. SITE
      2. DESCRIPTION
      3. IPADDRESS
      4. SOCKET
      5. TIMEOUT
      6. DATABASE
      7. FIELDCFM
      8. ACCESSCFM
      9. IDAUTHTYPE
        1. IDPASS
        2. NONE
        3. OPEN
        4. ANON
      10. GROUPID
      11. ACCOUNTNUMBER
      12. PASSWORD
      13. FASTBRIEF
      14. DEFAULTOP
      15. DEFAULTQUAL
      16. SMALLSETUB
      17. MEDIUMSETESN
      18. MEDIUMSETPN
      19. LARGESETLB
      20. ELEMENTSETNAME
      21. DISPCHARSET
      22. SEARCHLIMIT
      23. BRIEFVIEW_USING_TEMPLATES
      24. LONGVIEW_USING_TEMPLATES
      25. DUMPNEWLINE
      26. QUERYPARSER
    2. Search Attributes
      1. Name
      2. Qualifier
      3. View name (Map name?)
      4. Category
      5. Scannable
      6. Client normalization
      7. Attribute set ID
      8. Attribute pairs
        1. Types
        2. Values
    3. Maps
      1. OID_SCHEMA
      2. SORT_FILTER_SEMANTICS
      3. DISPLAY_TRANSLATOR
      4. TO_SERVER_TRANSLATOR
      5. QUERYPARSERS
      6. ACCESSPARSERS
      7. REDIRECTIONMAP
      8. BUILTINMAP
      9. Maps used in the field CFM
    4. Object Identifiers
      1. BRIEFSYNTAX
      2. FULLSYNTAX
      3. BIB1
    5. Views
      1. LONG
      2. BRIEF
      3. HOOK_HOLDINGS
      4. Views designed for WebPAC with templates
    6. Hooks
      1. MENU
      2. AUTO
      3. Hook via semantic
  3. The data dictionary
    1. Definitive list
    2. Format allows for programmatic use
    3. Many fields to be generated by explain
  4. Understanding the Z39.50 log file
    1. Init
    2. Search – query check
    3. Present – records as externals
  5. Schemas
    1. How names are constructed from object identifiers
    2. Access parsers
    3. Triple sets
    4. Data types
      1. High level
      2. Low level
  6. Semantics
  7. Fields
    1. Custom Field CFM
    2. Strings and built-ins
    3. The template group
      1.  If any semantics, at least 1 must resolve to an instance
    4. The semantic group
      1. Mapped semantics
      2. REX semantics and regular expressions
      3. Reduced semantics
      4. Templated semantics
    5. The selection group
      1. Nested selection and its use in redirection
      2. Break groups
    6. Simple examples
    7. Analysis of T_HOLDINGS
  8. Translation
  9. Redirection issues
  10. Summary of current and future tools
  11. Problem solving lab
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Last Updated: April 29, 1998