I've just spent the day at A9 discussing things with Dewitt and the
folks there.  When I've had a chance to write it up I'll post about the
conclusions, but suffice to say that everything that I'd hoped for in
the meeting was realised and then some and we say eye to eye on
practically every issue!

I'd like to thank the folks at A9 for their hospitality and especially
Dewitt for taking the time to discuss things in such detail.

(More when I'm not sitting in san francisco airport on a per-minute
wireless connection!)

Rob

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Matthew J. Dovey wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Fagan
>> Sent: 06 April 2006 02:06
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>> Subject: [OpenSearch Discuss] OpenSearch discussed at March
>> SRU meeting
>>
>> I know there are some SRU people already on this list, but I
>> didn't see this until today:
>>
>> http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/march06-meeting/report.html
>>
>> "The strategy we discussed is to make OpenSearch requests
>> legitimate SRU requests. Then an SRU-friendly OS server will
>> be able to do something intelligent when it gets an
>> SRU-loaded OS request."
>>
>> One of their big concerns seems to be that OpenSearch's "searchTerms"
>> is loosely defined, compared to CQL
>> <http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/cql/>. My idea of how to
>> handle this is as suggested over here:
>> <http://opensearch.a9.com/docs/devfaq.jsp#structured>.
>>
>> Have an OpenSearch Description include something like this:
>>
>> <Url type="application/rss+xml" xmlns:sru="http://example.com/sru"
>>
>> template="http://example.com/search?q={searchTerms?}&cql={sru:cql}" />
>>
>> Ignore for the moment that a different namespace would be
>> used, and that SRU has fixed GET variable names. A
>> CQL-supporting service could then send CQL queries, and ones
>> that had no idea what CQL is would send "searchTerms." Seems
>> like a pretty good solution to me.
>>
>> Michael
>> http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/
>>
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