Fw: [opensearch:251] Re: OASIS Search Web Services Technical Committee and OpenSearch

["Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>]

Forwarding this, because although DeWitt copied the TC, I don't think he can
post.  --Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DeWitt Clinton" <dewitt@unto.net>
To: <opensearch@googlegroups.com>
Cc: <search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 5:21 PM
Subject: [opensearch:251] Re: OASIS Search Web Services Technical Committee
and OpenSearch


> Hi Ray,
>
> Thanks so much for forwarding this.  At a quick glance this looks like
> fantastic work and exciting progress.  I look forward to digging in
deeper,
> and I can't wait to see more implementations spanning the SRU / OpenSearch
> spectrum.
>
> And likewise, as we're just working on OpenSearch Draft 4 now, if the
OASIS
> TC sees places we should clarify or expand OpenSearch to facilitate the
> interop, please don't hesitate to share.  I know there are plenty of
things
> we can clean up on the OpenSearch side, and the insight of the TC will be
> invaluable in highlighting places we can make improvements.  (If there
were
> any misunderstandings, it's quite likely a bug in the OpenSearch spec, not
> the other way around.)
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -DeWitt
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <
> rden@loc.gov> wrote:
>
> >  This note is posted on behalf of the OASIS Search Web Service Technical
> > Committee
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=search-ws .
We
> > want to ensure that our work is aligned with OpenSearch.
> >
> > Among the specification we are developing are SRU/CQL version 2.0. These
> > are based on SRU/CQL 1.2; see http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/ and
> > http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/specs/cql.html.  SRU is a
search/retrieve
> > protocol (web/xml-based successor to Z39.50) and CQL is the "Contextual
> > Query Language".  Version 2.0 will represent a major revision of version
> > 1.2. We want to ensure that it will map into OpenSearch; we have already
> > added features to that end.
> >
> > http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/oasis.html  summarizes our work and its
> > status. Note first the Abstract Protocol Definition  (APD)
> > http://docs.oasis-open.org/search-ws/v1.0/apd-V1.0.html which defines a
> > number of abstract request parameters and response elements. Bindings
are
> > developed, based on the APD.
> >
> > Please note in particular that we have drafted a binding for OpenSearch,
> > http://docs.oasis-open.org/search-ws/v1.0/opensearch-v1.0.html. In
section
> > 2.2 you can see the mapping of abstract parameters to OpenSearch
parameters,
> > and in 2.3 abstract response elements to OpenSearch response elements.
Note
> > also that this document elaborates some of the concepts and semantics of
the
> > OpenSearch spec (Draft 3) - as we have struggled to understand some
areas of
> > the specification we have in some cases imposed our interpretations. See
for
> > example the "model", 2.1, and also some "analysis" provided for the
response
> > example, 2.3. Some of our interpretations of the spec might be based on
> > misunderstanding and we fully intend to correct all errors brought to
our
> > notice.
> >
> > We invite review, critique, and discussion of this document and we also
> > invite OpenSearch implementors to participate in this OASIS work, to
help us
> > insure that these two important standards play well together.
> >
> > Ray Denenberg
> > Library of Congress
> > Co-Chair OASIS Search Web Service Technical Committee
> >
> > >
> >
>
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