Global Information Locator Service (GILS)

GILS offers a standard way to find information by its description--whether a specific document, an information service, a collection of information, or an entire organization. Based on the ISO 23950 search standard, GILS includes the most commonly understood concepts by which people worldwide find information sources in libraries--concepts like Title, Author, Publisher, Date, and Place. A GILS locator record is a kind of souped-up version of your trusty library catalog record. It relies on Z39.50, and tools are available (in C++ and JAVA) to implement a service. This service is called SWR (Search Retrieve Web) service, which is based on ISO 23950 (Z39.50) over HTTP.