Ralph,
This is okay with me.  I'll let others respond individually.

It's not a very attractive webpage, but if you explain that it was
created for testing I'm sure your listeners will be forgiving.

Break a leg!
Larry

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, LeVan,Ralph wrote:

> Larry, I know you said you didn't intent to advertise this page, but, it has
> some great examples.  I'd like to point to it in my DSpace presentation.
>
> Is that okay with you and with the folks pointed at by the page?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ralph
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry E. Dixson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:52 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: SRU Interoperability Testing
> >
> >
> > In an attempt to better understand the workings of SRU and to test
> > the SRU servers that I know about, I have constructed a very simple
> > Web page (that I'm not planning to advertise) for testing purposes.
> >
> > The page has the following URL:
> >      http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/srutest.html
> >
> > The following servers are represented:
> >      Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland
> >      Index Data
> >      OCLC (SOAR)
> >      PICA
> >      Cheshire Project (L5R)
> > (These are the only SRU servers that I know about.  If there are
> > others, please let me know and I will include them.  I don't want
> > to exclude anyone.)
> >
> > I created (to the best of my current ability) some very basic
> > SRU requests utilizing "dc.title" queries (I'll probably add
> > more searches later):
> >      dc.title="<term>"
> >      dc.title exact <term>
> >      dc.title any <term>
> >      dc.title all <term>
> >
> > I also attempt to retrieve the Explain Record for each server.
> >
> > Please take a look and make certain that if result sets are not
> > being generated it is not because of poorly constructed SRU requests.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Larry
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Larry E. Dixson                    Internet:    [log in to unmask]
> > Network Development and MARC
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> >
>