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Record W1491166376 · doi:10.18352/lq.7656

Why the Bath Profile Makes Z39.50 Work

2001· article· en· W1491166376 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueLIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLibrary Collection Development and Digital Resources
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMemorial University of Newfoundland
KeywordsComputer scienceTask (project management)Consistency (knowledge bases)ImplementationStandard Model (mathematical formulation)Work (physics)Protocol (science)Information retrievalSoftware engineeringArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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The Z39.50 standard has been in productive use for several years now. However, due to the way the standard has been interpreted by some Integrated Library System (ILS) vendors, the results of using the standard have often been somewhat varied at best and, at worst, non functional. The lack of consistency in the use of Z39.50 has lead to the standard being held in rather lower regard than it deserves in some quarters. It is a matter that can be debated whether the inconsistency in the implementation of the standard is the fault of the implementers ignoring aspects of the standard to make their task simpler or simply a lack of precision in the standard itself. To circumvent the debate, the Z39.50 Implementers Group (ZIG) has defined profiles for the use of the standard that are clearly defined and can be measured. This paper takes a look back at why the Z39.50 standard was invented in the first place and defines briefly how Z39.50 works. The paper then considers why implementations of the standard appear to fail and how those failures manifest themselves. With this information in hand, it is possible to make sense of the answer to the question, how does the Bath profile make Z39.50 work?

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.516
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0040.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it