We've been working with SRW and the ResearchPane service at the
University of Toronto using the YAZ Proxy with its support for SRW
against our local SIRSI database. We develop the research pane services
in ASP.net and make SRW calls to the YAZProxy. We've had some difficulty
getting the SRW WSDL file to work with SIRSI -- still sorting it out --
but SRU can fill the same role in the architecture since the data has to
be reformatted anyway before it can be loaded into the ResearchPane.
We'[ve had success with connecting to the D-Space SRW service via the
ResearchPane and have built other services for our local journal
collection under ScienceServer. I can put you in touch with our
programming team if you want more details.

Alan

Alan Darnell
University of Toronto
P : 416 946 7706

Eliot Christian wrote:

> Microsoft is expressing interest in having SRW/SRU hooked up
> to the "research pane" in Microsoft Office (see details below).
>
> Have you or anyone you know done this already, or do you want
> to go ahead and put up a demo?
>
> Eliot
>
>> Subject: Research Task Pane - Office 2003
>> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:59:50 -0400
>> From: "David McDonald \(MCS\)" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: "Eliot Christian" <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Hi Eliot   This is the Research Pane info that I mentioned the other
>> day.
>>
>> This article talks about the technical details of how to build your
>> own search service interfaced with the research pane.
>>
>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_customizingtheresearchpane.asp>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_customizingtheresearchpane.asp
>>
>>
>> This is the software dev kit.
>>
>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rssdk/html/rsconaboutrssdk.asp>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rssdk/html/rsconaboutrssdk.asp
>>
>>
>> It would be very interesting to see how we might link up the Z3950
>> Library of Congress service. This is how we would make it available
>> to office users.
>> <http://office.microsoft.com/marketplace/PortalProviderPreview.aspx?AssetID=EY010687411033>http://office.microsoft.com/marketplace/PortalProviderPreview.aspx?AssetID=EY010687411033
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David McDonald
>