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The Research Libraries Group (RLG) spent 1991-1992 developing a server that implements the main features of ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50-1992, Information Retrieval Service and Protocol. The Z39.50 server allows users of other computers that run Z39.50 client programs to search RLG's bibliographic, authority, and citation databases. In any development project, some of the issues that the development team has to consider are the operating environment of the developed system, the development tools the team will use, the external design of the system, and the internal design. Then, the coding, testing, and implementing had to be done. The Z39.50 vision of being able to use a single interface to search databases housed on multiple remote systems is becoming a reality.
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Systems design;
Information retrieval;
Implementations;
Client server computing;
Libraries;
Databases;
Citation analysis;
Information systems;
Software;
Search engines;
Citation indexes;
Mainframes;
Academic libraries;
Internet Protocol;
Servers;
Human-computer interaction;
Data mining;
Retrieval;
Computers;
Housing authorities;
Teams