Bath Profile compliance checklist

	Bath Profile requirement	OCLC FirstSearch compliance	Comments
General Profile Requirements
1.	Z39.50 version 2 or version 3 standard support	yes	The OCLC FirstSearch server is version 3 compliant.
2.	Type 1 query support	yes
3.	Bib 1 attribute support	yes
Functional Area A—Bibliographic Search and Retrieval
	General Requirements
4.	Record syntax support (UNIMARC or MARC21) AND (SUTRS or XML)	yes	The OCLC FirstSearch server supports SUTRS for all databases. XML support is available for WorldCat only.
5.	"Any" (use=1016) search contains author, title, and subject access points	yes
6.	Named result set support	yes
7.	Boolean operators AND/OR/NOT	yes
8.	Processing of all six attributes as sent	yes
	Level 0 Searches
9.	Author Search—Precision Match for Established Name Heading (5.A.0.1)	yes
10.	Title Search—Keyword (5.A.0.2)	yes
11.	Subject Search—Keyword (5.A.0.3)	yes
12.	Any Search—Keyword (5.A.0.4)	yes
	Level 1 General Requirements
13.	Truncation	yes	The OCLC FirstSearch server supports the following truncation attributes: 1, 100, 101, and 104.
14.	Scan service support	yes
15.	Character set and language negotiation	no	Character set provided is UTF-8
	Level 1 Searches
16.	Author Search—Precision Match for Established Name Heading (5.A.1.1)	yes
17.	Author Search—Keyword (5.A.1.2)	yes
18.	Author Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.A.1.3)	yes
19.	Author Search—Exact Match (5.A.1.4)	yes
20.	Title Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.A.1.5)	yes
21.	Title Search—Exact Match (5.A.1.6)	yes
22.	Title Search—First Words in Field (5.A.1.7)	yes
23.	Title Search—First Characters in Field (5.A.1.8)	yes
24.	Subject Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.A.1.9)	yes
25.	Subject Search—Exact Match (5.A.1.10)	yes
26.	Subject Search—First Words in Field (5.A.1.11)	yes
27.	Subject Search—First Characters in Field (5.A.1.12)	yes
28.	Any Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.A.1.13)	yes
29.	Standard Identifier Search (5.A.1.14)	yes
30.	Date of Publication Search (5.A.1.15)	yes
	Level 1 Scans
31.	Author—Exact Match (5.A.1SCAN.1)	yes
32.	Title—Exact Match (5.A.1SCAN.2)	yes
33.	Title—Keyword (5.A.1SCAN.3)	yes
34.	Subject—Exact Match (5.A.1SCAN.4)	yes
35.	Subject—Keyword (5.A.1SCAN.5)	yes
36.	Any—Keyword (5.A.1SCAN.6)	yes
Functional Area B—Bibliographic Holdings Search and Retrieval
	Level 0
37.	Holdings embedded in bibliographic records	yes
Functional Area C—Cross-Domain Search and Retrieval
	Level 0
38.	Record syntax support SUTRS or XML	yes	The OCLC FirstSearch server supports SUTRS for all databases. XML support is available for WorldCat only.
39.	Creator Search—Keyword (5.C.0.1)	yes
40.	Title Search—Keyword (5.C.0.2)	yes
41.	Subject Search—Keyword (5.C.0.3)	yes
42.	Any Search—Keyword (5.C.0.4)	yes
	Level 1
43.	Record syntax support SUTRS or XML (using Dublin Core Simple DTD)	yes	The OCLC FirstSearch server supports SUTRS for all databases. XML support is available for WorldCat only.
44.	Creator Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.C.1.1)	yes
45.	Title Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.C.1.2)	yes
46.	Title Search—Unanchored Phrase (5.C.1.3)	no	Proximity searching can be used.
47.	Subject Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.C.1.4)	yes
48.	Subject Search—Unanchored Phrase (5.C.1.5)	no	Proximity searching can be used.
49.	Any Search—Keyword with Right Truncation (5.C.1.6)	yes
50.	Any Search—Unanchored Phrase (5.C.1.7)	no	Proximity searching can be used.
51.	Standard Identifier Search (5.C.1.8)	yes
52.	Date of Publication Search (5.C.1.9)	yes

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