well, I suspect that the SRW concept might be deployed in interfaces for a
number of different kinds of users not all necessarily being the classic
end-user.

pat

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Subject: Re: SRW and OIA


Pat

I guess i agree although i see different audiences for those clients - I
see the OAI client as being more of an internal client that just lets the
service provider get the data - the SRW client is more of the end user
client that provides the value add service - admittedly that may be too
rigid a breakdown of how things will work

mark


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Stevens, Pat wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
> >
>