I have a tester, just not a site.  Eric, if you'll give me a pointer to
your SRW server, I'll run my tester against it.  If it looks like it
produces something useful, I'll expose the server through a web page.

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of
> Eric Lease Morgan
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 11:55 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: SRW/U vs OpenSearch blog
> 
> On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
> 
> > http://curtis.med.yale.edu/dchud/log/project/linkstack/more-unalog-
> > search-with-opensearch-and-content-indexing
> 
> The three bullet points at the bottom of the blog summarize the
> author's experience:
> 
>    * The mess that is the SRW/U specs slows adoption
>    * The lack of an OAI-PMH-esque testing tool makes "compliance"
>      difficult to test
>    * The absence of a public-facing a9-style SRW/U clearinghouse
>      limits its potential impact significantly
> 
> These points echo tasks the group articulated as "next steps" in
> regards to adoption. See:
> 
>    http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/forum-june05-output/steps.html
> 
> (I personally desire a conformance tester a la the OAI Repository
> Explorer.)
> 
> --
> Eric Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame