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Tor Arne Dahl writes: > I've started looking into the SRU standard documents again, trying > to finalize a first version of the Norwegian NorZIG profile. We're > making a profile for the domain of bibliographic search. I'm a bit > confused and would be pleased if someone could help me with the > following questions: > > 1) What is the status of the Bath context set at <URL: > http://zing.z3950.org/srw/bath/2.0/ >? This is not among the > registered context sets at the SRU website. Hi, Tor. That set was made in an attempt to make the simplest possible SRU/W specification that could express all of the searches described in the Bath Z39.50 profile. I think it succeeds pretty well in that, but I don't think it's been used much, or maybe at all. I think it's a mistake that it's not registered at the SRU site: Ray, please can you add it? > 2) What is the status of the MARC context set at <URL: > http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/resources/marc-context-set.html >? > This is among the registered context sets, but seems a bit complex > and unfriendly to implementers outside the library domain. > > 3) What is the status of the bib context set, described at <URL: > http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/cql-bibliographic-searching.html > >? This document has been a draft since June 2006. Any plans to > make a final version of this in the near future? These two initiatives started as part of a push to "sort out" bibliographic searching in SRU, making it completely rigorous. But I'm not sure anyone cared enough to make them happen -- DC searching seems to be 9/10ths of the game these days -- and I've not heard anything about either effort for a long time now. I think if you're making a profile, then the first of these -- the older Bath profile -- is probably the most practical approach to take. But that could just be author bias :-) _/|_ ___________________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "The government saved a dying planet where popular icons failed" -- Sting, "Jeremiah Blues"