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Subject: RE: [wsrp] New standards proposal for search

From: "Matthew J. Dovey" <matthew.dovey@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
To: "Rich Thompson" <richt2@us.ibm.com>,"Ross Fubini" <rossf@plumtree.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:11:02 -0000

> 1. Why have this be a JCP standard rather than a broader web 
> service standard (likely with a matching JCP compliant std)? 
> 2. Would not it be a useful goal for this to be a subset of 
> ISO 23950 (the broad overarching search standard)? 

This is exactly what we set out to achieve with SRW
(http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw) - a web service implementing
a subset of ISO 23950

Matthew Dovey
Oxford University