The CQL Bibliographic Searching draft is at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/cql-bibliographic-searching.html
and there is a link from the SRU homepage.   Tentatively, there may be a
meeting in June to prepare this to go forward for standardization.

--Ray


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Searching for country and library-type


> Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress writes:
>  > From: "Mike Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>
>  > > What is the current status of the bib set?  Depending on the
>  > > definition, this one might work.
>  >
>  > It will likely go to either OASIS or NISO for formalization. At the
>  > moment we're waiting to get the OASIS/SRU TC kicked off before
>  > figuring that out.
>
> Then wouldn't it be useful if the SRU pages prominently featured a
> page "here is the bibliographic searching set in the form in which it
> will be submitted to the standards body"?
>
> Or surely we don't intend to wait two years for the committee
> processes to grind through before there's any well-defined way to do
> bibliographic searching with SRU?
>
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