Given this exchange, and the suggestion from Ralph --- should we revisit the
decision we made a year ago?  Which was: don't define direct openURL
indexes, instead define a mapping.   Ralph suggests: sap.aulast="orwell"

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From: "Ross Singer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Searching on OpenURL keys


> Well, yes, this is more what I'm angling at, I guess (and more
> diplomatically, thanks Ryan).
>
> Perhaps, rather than worry about a perfect mapping, we should focus on
> a practical mapping between the two.
>
> There are quite a few indexes that the bib context set opens up that
> are useful, especially in the context of OpenURL resolving (volume,
> issue, etc. come to mind, atitle/jtitle as well - but these I see as a
> quite a bit trickier).
>
> On 6/13/07, Scherle, Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > But one of the reasons for creating the bib context set was to avoid a
> > lot of specialized context sets like this.
>
> The only problem I have with this logic is that:
> In many of the same places that SRU is trying to be implemented, we
> are also trying to implement OpenURL, so why can't we make that
> process as painless as can be?
>
> I understand abstracting this, certainly, but at some point
> concessions need to made to the communities that actually want to use
> this.
>
> -Ross.