> I've been checking up on ZING for quite some time, as I have been eager
> for a way to retrieve LoC records that has ... how can I say... a less
> steep learning curve than straight Z39.50. I attempted to set up

Not to dissuade you from SRW, but have you looked at ZOOM ?
(At least until there /is/ an SRW server in front of the LoC database)

http://zoom.z3950.org/

> via HTTP developments were underway. I'm curious to know the laymen's
> status of this one? I've been lurking around on this list for a couple

There are some implementations, but I don't think there's a gateway to the
LoC database yet. Ray? Larry?

I could probably set one up with only minimal effort, but it would be in
the UK physically, which is rather a round trip.

> of weeks in order to try to gather some clue as to the status, but to be
> honest this list isn't even in my language, so I figured I'd just come

Uhhh, yeah. At the moment it's rather chaotic with CQL 1.1 discussion.
It's not always like this :)


Rob
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