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Dynix Vision - Industry Standards
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Supported Library Standards
Dynix is very committed to supporting standards. First and foremost is supporting library automation standards. Library standards already supported include:
- Z39.50 support by Horizon and Horizon Information Portal.
- Bath Profile support by Horizon's and Horizon Information Portal's Z39.50 Client and Server – fully compliant with Level 1 of functional areas A, B & C of the Bath Profile
- SIP & SIP2 (Standard Interchange Protocol) are supported by Horizon and Dynix ILS
- X12, EDIFACT and Enhanced EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) are supported by Horizon and Dynix ILS
- Dublin Core support by the Horizon Digital Library
Planned Library Standards
Planned library automation standards include:
- ZING SRW (Search/Retrieve Web Service) – the Web Services based replacement for Z39.50, which will be used for Horizon Consolidated Searching (see http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/). ZING stands for Z39.50 International Next Generation and is sponsored by the Z39.50 International Maintenance Agency. >> Read more about ZING SRW.
- NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) – to support interlibrary loan applications, support planned for Horizon 7.3, Horizon Information Portal 2.1 and URSA from Dynix. Link to NCIP in Consortium support. >> Read more about NCIP.
- IPIG Profile (Interlibrary Loan Protocol Implementers Group) – an LDAP directory schema for interlibrary loan applications. (http://www.arl.org/access/naildd/ipig/ipig.shtml)
- SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework) – designed so that many school applications can interoperate with each other (http://www.sifinfo.org/)
Supported Internet & Other Standards
In addition to library automation standards, Dynix also supports key Internet standards. Today the company supports
Planned Internet & Other Standards
In the future, Dynix will be supporting:
- LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) – the directory service standard for the Internet. >> Read more about LDAP. (http://www.openldap.org/)
- eduPerson – a student-based directory schema that can define the user information schema for LDAP (http://www.educause.edu/eduperson/)
- PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) – an e-commerce standard for user authentication that supports digital signatures and other public key-enabled security services (http://csrc.nist.gov/pki/)
- Web Services – an application to application communication standard, based on XML – will be used for book jobber e-commerce integration along with other planned uses (http://www.w3c.org/2002/ws/)
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