The indexes provided by the ZeeRex context set are intended to be used with indexes from other sets to implement The ZeeRex Profile for SRW/U. This document describes version 2.0 of the ZeeRex context set.
Version 2.0 of the ZeeRex Context Set is uniquely identified by the URI http://explain.z3950.org/search/contextset/2.0/
The conventional prefix for use with the ZeeRex Context Set is zeerex. Therefore, ZeeRex queries may begin with the following CQL prefix-mapping:
>zeerex="http://explain.z3950.org/search/contextset/2.0/"
The ZeeRex Context Set contains the indexes listed in the following table:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| explainAdmin | Searches against this ``special'' access point
must be for one of the following set of special terms:
|
| databaseName | The search terms should be the name of a database; the search is for all records which include information about a database with that name. |
| recordSyntax | The search term should be the symbolic name or
dot-separated OID of a record syntax; the search is for all
records representing databases capable of
supplying records in that record syntax.
As with host names, although there is a choice in how the search term is represented - either as a symbolic name (e.g. USMARC) or as an OID (e.g. 1.2.840.10003.5.10) - each case will find only servers which are specified as being able to supply the record syntax in the specified form: for example, a search for USMARC will not find a record which only specifies a record syntax of 1.2.840.10003.5.10. |
| attribute | Finds databases which have a map that supports
searching with the specified attribute.
``Attributes'' in this sense may be either index names (for
databases supporting SRW/U) or attributes in the classic sense
(for databases supporting Z39.50).
An attributes in the former, SRW/U sense, is specified by a combination of the identifying URL of the context set that provides it, and the index-name iself. These two elements are glued together into a single search term of the form context-set-URI:index-name. Since the context-set URI may contain a colon but the index name cannot, servers are advised to parse these search-terms backwards, starting at the end. For example, info:srw/cql-context-set/1/dc-v1.1:title searches for the Dublin Core context set's ``title'' index. Attributes in the latter, Z39.50, sense are specified by a combination of attribute set, attribute type and attribute value. These three elements are glued together into a single search term of the form attributeSet:type=value, where the attribute set is expressed as in the attributeSet attribute in the DTD, the type is a number and the value may be a number or a string. For example, BIB-1:1=21 searches for the BIB-1 attribute set's ``subject'' access point. |