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How about "Search and Retrieve Web Service" and "Search and Retrieve URL Service"? Ralph > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:49 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Clarification: SRW is an acronym for ... ? (fwd) > > > > I thought it was "Search and Retrieve on the Web" and > "Search and Retrieve > > with URL's". > > The reason I don't like 'on/for the Web' is that it makes it > sound like > yet another web search engine. As far as SRU goes, I've > thought of it as > Search/Retrieve web service by URL, or similar. It's still a 'web > service', it just uses GET rather than POST. > > That said, I'm not especially fussed either way so long as there's one > correct answer. :) > > Rob > > -- > ,'/:. Dr Robert Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) > ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ > ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 > ,'---/::::::::::. Nebmedes: http://nebmedes.o-r-g.org:8000/ > ____/:::::::::::::. > I L L U M I N A T I >