Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) - (in development) used to pass indexing information from server to server in order to facilitate query routing. Query routing is the process of redirecting and replicating queries through a distributed database system towards servers holding the desired results, August 1999
Data Source Name (DSN) - provides access to a database trough an ODBC driver, contains information such as database name, directory, database driver, UserID and password
Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) - database access method developed by Microsoft that makes use of a driver between an application and the database management system (DBMS)
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language - (W3C Working Draft as of 2002-08-20) designed to be broadly applicable across all types of XML data sources
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model - (W3C Working Draft as of 2002-08-20) data model of at least XSLT 2.0, and XQuery 1.0: A Query Language for XML, and any other specifications that reference it, based on the data models of XPath and XML Query Data Model and replaces XML Query Data Model
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators - (W3C Working Draft as of 2002-08-20) defines basic operators and functions on the datatypes defined in XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes for use in XQuery, XPath, XSLT and other related XML standards, also discusses operators and functions on nodes and node sequences as defined in the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model for use in XQuery, XPath, XSLT and other related XML standards
XML Query Requirements - (W3C Working Draft as of 2002-01-02) specifies goals, requirements, and usage scenarios for the W3C XML Query data model, algebra, and query language
XML Query Use Cases - (W3C Working Draft as of 2002-08-20) specifies usage scenarios for the W3C XML Query data model, algebra, and query language
Z39.50 Maintenance Home - developing methodologies, test procedures, and measures to assess interoperability between systems using the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 standard protocol for information retrieval.