Using the Connectors listed below, MasterKey Connect makes databases available via a standard XML-based web-service API. It provides a simple gateway to each database that enables searching and retrieving rich metadata records in a straightforward XML format. The query URL and result formats are exactly the same for all Connectors, allowing the same client software to be used to access all databases uniformly.
The WSAPI is a profile of SRU, the Library of Congress's de-facto standard for information retrieval. The ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50 is also supported, returning the same XML format.
The SRU and Z39.50 protocols are supported by all major metasearch/federated search solutions, including MetaLib, Search360 and WebFeat. Existing installations of these and other discovery systems can be easily configured to use these Connectors.
Index Data supports searching the following databases beginning with '${LETTER}'.