Access Isearch database by default with flexible access to others via call to scripts in a database initialization file. To establish a distributed test environment through collaboration with a limited number of institutions with similar aims. I ndexing P rotocol for the collection of remote collection descriptions. The API is defined to allow use of most relational databases. The LDAP is an enhanced version of Michigan version 3 software which has a well documented C language API and a set of command line tools that can be used with scripting languages.
Perl modules are also available.
To provide a complete solution for subject gateway development. It is intended to be easy to use. Approach A toolkit that installs quickly, and is complete for small to medium sized applications. Offers Keyword and Boolean searching with customizable result format. Z39.50 gateway functionality provided by Index Data's Zebra server.