Pat

yes I agree which is why i said i was making somewhat of an artificial
distinction - what im not sure about is how broad the applicibility will
be for OAI harvesting clients given what the OAI protocol is intended for

mark


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

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Needleman - DRA [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > 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.
> > >
> >
>