$Id: README,v 1.2 2007/07/06 15:46:39 mike Exp $ Net-Z3950-Simple2ZOOM ===================== This module implements a program, simple2zoom, which acts as a general-purpose gateway between the two standard information retrieval protocols ANSI/NISO Z39.50-2003 and SRU/SRW. It's not likely that the library modules will be useful for any other purpose. Information about Z39.50 is available at the maintenancy agency site: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/document.html Information about SRU and its brother SRW is available from: http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/ INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: - the Net::Z3950::SimpleServer Perl module - the Net::Z3950::ZOOM Perl module These in turn rely on the YAZ toolkit's Generic Frontend Server (for the server side) and ZOOM API (for the client side) to handle the Z39.50 and SRU/SRW protocol mechanics. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2007 by Index Data. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.