>> 3) What is the status of the bib context set, described at <URL:
>> http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/cql-bibliographic-searching.html >?
>> This document has been a draft since June 2006. Any plans to make a
>> final version of this in the near future?
>
> Yes, this has been dormant for quite awhile, but it is intended to be
> formalized in conjunction with the OASIS process. That work is now  
> very
> focused on an initial core set of working draft documents to be  
> available
> within two months, including abstract models and initial protocol  
> bindings.
> Following that we can focus more closely on application-specific  
> work and
> the bibliographic set will be high on the list.

Note that "quite awhile" is roughly 8 months. At the June 2007  
meeting, we made minor revisions to the bibliographic document. See  
the minutes at

      http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/june2007meeting-report.html

The 2006 date on the bib document needs to be changed, but I think the  
rest of the document is up to date. Although the standardization  
process may change the content somewhat, this will take time, and will  
probably leave the core bibliographic features in place, so it is  
certainly a reasonable place to start. The main thing lacking at this  
point is a sample implementation of bibliographic search to verify its  
feasibility. Unfortunately, I was one of the few people planning to  
implement bibliographic searching, and I have since moved on to a  
different set of problems,

--- Ryan Scherle
--- Digital Data Repository Architect
--- National Evolutionary Synthesis Center