> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Denenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:22 AM
>
> We need to have a dc prefix, forthe 15 dc elements, with dc semantics.
>
> Whether or not we need in addition an un-prefixed list should
> be argued
> based on the above  premise. What would it consist of?  Obviously, it
> wouldn't simply be the 15 dc elements with dc semantics
> again.  What then?
> Would it be the 15 dc element names with semantics even more
> ambiguous than
> dc?  What would be the point?

I have no problem with a DC index set.  I have little problem with the
recommendation that all SRW servers support the DC index set.  I guess I
could even live with it being mandatory.  (OAI mandates that all records be
returnable in DC.  So do we.)  I will resist a move to make DC be the
default Index Set when the user provides no prefix.

But, I'm in a compromising mood.  How about a new optional SRU parameter to
specify the user's default IndexSet?  Then the fixed part of the URL could
say DefaultIndexSet=dc and the user could say title=dog.  This parameter is
not needed in SRW because the client software could stick the prefix on
itself.

Ralph