At 15:08 24-07-2002 +0100, Robert Sanderson wrote:
> > >So, once we have the spec finalised, who's going to be first to write an
> > >SRW<->Amazon gateway? :) (Or preferably get Amazon to reimplement with
> > >SRW!)
>
> > Probably the former is a lot easier. The query language of the Amazon
> > "advanced search" has (or used to have) all of the functionality you'd want
> > in a good Z39.50 Type-1 query implementation. If they expose that same
> > query language through SOAP, we're home free.
>
>Unfortunately not. There are different SOAP requests for author searches
>vs keyword searches vs director searches (for movies) and so forth, all of
>which are the same apart from one parameter name, but also mean that they
>can't be combined :/
What a shame... the question is whether that's just because they haven't
thought about it (and hence they can be encouraged to do better), or if
it's a conscious choice to limit the sophistication (and usability) of
derived user interfaces. :(
--Sebastian
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