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Networked Reference Services Committee Releases Question/Answer Transaction Protocol (QATP) - National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Comments are due before Jan. 8, 2003.
The Protocol Subcommittee of NISO Standards Committee AZ on Networked Reference Services is developing a Question/Answer Transaction Protocol (QATP) to support exchange between digital reference systems collaborating in the processing of a question. A preliminary step in the development of a protocol is to describe use cases (also known informally as "functional scenarios") that the protocol is required to support. Use cases help develop protocol requirements.




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