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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:53:01AM -0500, Ray Denenberg wrote: > After that, we're discussing plans to > access OAI via SRW (with a gateway). The plans now are very rough but > should become clearer in the next few weeks. Funny timing sometimes. I was just playing with OAI myself for the first time - initially to collect some more dublin core records (I have around 440,000 now :-). But its good to hear there will be another implementation around to bounce packets off etc. Soon I think we also need to look at CQL and start hashing it out a bit. For example, what are the goals? My goal is to have a human readable query language with clear semantics of what all the operators mean, but that also binds well onto Z39.50 in terms of attribute sets. I don't find listing series of digits as particuarly attractive or easy to debug. But I do remember someone else's quite valid point that at least numbers were language-neutral for an international protocol. Alan