Actually, the expenditure of effort in developing a client is the same. I
suspect we will all want to provide multiple access paths to metadata for
the multiple purposes that the metadata will be used.

pat

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From: Mark Needleman - DRA [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:35 AM
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Subject: Re: SRW and OIA


Ray

I guess that makes sense although spending the effort on using SRW as
Ralph suggests seems to be a more interesting use of development efforts

mark


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Ray Denenberg wrote:

> Mark Needleman - DRA wrote:
>
> > Im a little confused by this - many of the reasons you say you want to
> > access the OAI data with SRW are I beleive available using the OAI
> > protocol itself
>
> The presumption is that you've implemented an SRW client, but not an OAI
> client, and that there is a gateway available.
>