ZNG and Explain

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ZNG and Explain

• Janifer Gatenby, Pica

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Two Parts

• Discovery available databases
• Discovery of database capability

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Database Discovery

• UDDI directory of ZNG databases
• WSDL documents

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Database Capability

• Mechanism
• Search minus a query
• Return XML document in ZNG explain schema
• XML explain schema based on Explain Lite
• Available soon will evolve

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Lighter than Lite

• ZNG
• Search minus CQL
• N/A
• XML schemas
• Use, Relationship, Truncation
• Response schemas

• Lite
• Init
• Database names
• Syntaxes
• Bib1 attributes