From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T06:31:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/ZOOM 0.1.0

Quoting lrz@gnome.org, on Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 06:10:19AM +0900:
> Hi,
> 
> I am happy to announce the first release of Ruby/ZOOM!
> 
> Ruby/ZOOM provides a Ruby binding to the Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model
> (ZOOM), an abstract object-oriented programming interface to a subset of
> the services specified by the Z39.50 standard, also known as the
> international standard ISO 23950.

Ok, I've gone through about 3 web pages, and I still don't know what
kind of info you can access with Z39.50. Could you give a few line
summary of what kinds of things I can do with this?

Cheers,
Sam


> This software is based (and therefore depends) on YAZ, a free-software
> implementation of the Z39.50/SRW/SRU standards, but could be easily
> ported to any ZOOM compliant implementation.
> 
> You can get more information (download link, sample, API reference,
> etc...) from the homepage:
> 
>         http://ruby-zoom.rubyforge.org/
> 
> Enjoy
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 
>