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Subject: OASIS SWS TC Work in 300 words
I've drafted the following current-description of our work (for someone who is including coverage of our work in an article he is writing). Let me know if you have comments or suggestions. -------------------------------- The OASIS Search Web Services Technical Committee has been working steadily but quietly for several months and will soon release a set of draft documents, including an Abstract Protocol Definition providing the framework for the definition of "Application Protocol Bindings". Examples of these bindings are SRU 1.2, SRU 2.0, and openSearch. A binding may be "static" or "dynamic" - a human-readable document (essentially a profile), or a machine-readable file describing a server, the description provided according to a description language that the committee is also developing. There is also a third binding type, an "intermediate" binding, which takes the form of a static binding but in turn binds to one or more dynamic bindings. SRU 1.2 and SRU 2.0 are static bindings. openSearch is an intermediate binding. The premise behind dynamic bindings is that any server, even one that existed prior to development of the standard, need only to provide a dynamic binding, that is, a self-description. It need make no other changes in order to be accessible. A client will be able to access any server that provides a description, if only it implements the capability to read the description file and interpret the description and based on that description to formulate a request (including a query) and interpret the response. The committee will initially produce two bindings: SRU 1.2 (compatible with the current SRU 1.2 specification (http://www.loc.gov/sru/), and openSearch (Compatible with http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1/Draft_3) These two will be a straightforward rendering of the two existing specifications. The committee will follow with a third binding, SRU 2.0, which will introduce new features into SRU. The committee will also initially produce a draft CQL 1.2, compatible with http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/specs/cql.html, and will follow later with CQL 2.0, which will introduce new features into CQL.
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