Academic LinkShare Z39.50 Target Profile

Connection details

Domain name z3950.academic-linkshare.de
Ports 20010 (for ISO 8859-1)
20012 (for UTF-8)
Database base name required
Authentication required, for contact details see ALS website

Target information

Services Init, Search, Present, namedResultSets, Close
Attribute Set Bib-1 (1.2.840.10003.3.1)
Character Sets ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) on port 20010
UTF-8 on port 20012
Record Syntax MARC 21 (1.2.840.10003.5.10)
Element Set full
Query Syntax Type-1 (RPN)
Operators AND, OR, AND-NOT
Diagnostic Set Bib-1 (1.2.840.10003.4.1)
Result sets max. 10 per session
Idle timeout 5 minutes

Default attribute values

AT-1 AT-2 AT-3 AT-4 AT-5 AT-6
Use Relation Position Structure Truncation Completeness
Default 1016 3 3 1 100 1
on unsupported value reject reject apply default reject reject apply default

Supported attribute values

AT-1 AT-2 AT-3 AT-4 AT-5 AT-6
4 Title 3 3 1, 2, 6 1, 2, 3, 100, 101 1
7 ISBN 3 3 1, 2 100 1
8 ISSN 3 3 1, 2 100 1
21 Subject 3 3 1, 2, 6 1, 2, 3, 100, 101 1
31 Date of publication 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 3 1, 4 100 1
1003 Author 3 3 1, 2, 6, 101 1, 2, 3, 100, 101 1
1016 Any 3 3 1, 2, 6 1, 2, 3, 100, 101 1

MARC 21 metadata element mapping

Note: The mapping of LinkShare Application Profile to MARC 21 does not contain all AP elements.

Field DC element Encoding
scheme
LinkShare context
001 dc:identifier LinkShare System record id
020 # # $a dc:identifier Identifier - ISBN
022 # # $a dc:identifier Identifier - ISSN
041 0 # $a dc:language ISO639-2 Language (code)
245 0 0 $a dc:title Title
246 0 3 $a dcterms:alternative Title Alternative
260 # # $c dcterms:issued W3CDTF Date of publication
520 3 # $a dcterms:abstract Abstract
522 # # $a dcterms:spatial Subject Classification Scheme - Countries
546 # # $a dc:language Language (name)
650 # 4 $a dc:subject Keyword
655 # 4 $a dc:type Resource Type
700 1 # $a dc:creator
dc:contributor
dc:publisher
Creator / Personal Name
Contributor / Personal Name
Publisher / Personal Name (indicated by $e subfield)
710 2 # $a dc:creator
dc:contributor
dc:publisher
Creator / Corporate Name
Contributor / Corporate Name
Publisher / Corporate Name (indicated by $e subfield)
856 4 0 $u dc:identifier URI Identifier - URL