The editorial board are currently thinking about the best way to
approach them about the SRW work.
My personal view is that the use of RSS as a basis for the transport is
an interesting one - at the very least, their approach could be enhanced
by adopting CQL.
Matthew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
> Sent: 17 March 2005 20:28
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> Subject: opensearch
>
> I saw a pointer today about a thing advocated by Amazon.com called
> OpenSearch:
>
> Many sites today return search results as a tightly integrated
> part of the website itself. Unfortunately, those search results
> can't be easily reused or made available elsewhere, as they are
> usually wrapped in HTML and don't follow any one convention.
> OpenSearch offers an alternative: an open format that will enable
> those search results to be displayed anywhere, anytime. Rather
> than introduce yet another proprietary or closed protocol,
> OpenSearch is a straightforward and backward-compatible extension
> of RSS 2.0, the widely adopted XML-based format for content
> syndication.
>
> http://opensearch.a9.com/
>
> 'Sounds alike the results of SRW/U queries, only with a
> different syntax. Example XML output is here, and is based on RSS:
>
> http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>
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