I think title, description and base-url is sufficient. The rest comes
from explain. The metasearch people will come with more extensive
service and collection descriptions but a simple list like the one below
you can use as starting point.

Theo
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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" encoding="utf-8"?>

<records xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
         xmlns:tel="http://krait.kb.nl/"
         xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<record>
<dc>
<dc:title>KB aggregated catalogue</dc:title>
<dc:identifier
xsi:type="tel:SRUbaseURL">http://www.kb.nl/cgi-zoek/sru.pl?</dc:identifier>
</dc>
</record>
<record>
<dc>
<dc:title>European Library test database</dc:title>
<dc:identifier
xsi:type="tel:SRUbaseURL">http://krait.kb.nl/cgi-zoek/sru.pl?</dc:identifier>
</dc>
</record>
<record>
<dc>
<dc:title>Rob's server (l5r)</dc:title>
<dc:identifier
xsi:type="tel:SRUbaseURL">http://srw.o-r-g.org:8080/l5r/?</dc:identifier>
</dc>
</record>
<record>
<dc>
<dc:title>SOAR Database</dc:title>
<dc:description>A collection of IEEE LOM records provided to support
the COLIS experiment</dc:description>
<dc:identifier
xsi:type="tel:SRUbaseURL">http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/SOAR?</dc:identifier>
</dc>
</record>
<record>
<dc>
<dc:title>GSAFD Thesaurus</dc:title>
<dc:description>A thesaurus of genre terms to support the "Guidelines
on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction , Drama"
(GSAFD</dc:description>
<dc:identifier
xsi:type="tel:SRUbaseURL">http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/GSAFD?</dc:identifier>
</dc>
</record>
<record>
<dc>
<dc:title>Indexdata</dc:title>
<dc:identifier
xsi:type="tel:SRUbaseURL">http://indexdata.dk:9000/voyager?</dc:identifier>
</dc>
</record>
<record>
<dc>
<dc:title>Pica</dc:title>
<dc:identifier
xsi:type="tel:SRUbaseURL">http://greta.pica.nl:1080/sru/?</dc:identifier>
</dc>
</record>
</records>

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>>> [log in to unmask] 10-6-04 22:59:54 >>>
From: "Theo van Veen" <[log in to unmask]>
> Ray, is it possible to have a page with all the SRU/W base-url's
that
> we know of?

Yes, everyone send me one's you'd like listed and I'll put up a page.
What
information should we list with each? Contact, organization, brief
description,.....

--Ray