TAPIR

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

Are any of you familiar with the work that Ryan cites?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Scherle" <rscherle@INDIANA.EDU>
To: <ZNG@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: FW: [search-ws] Public Review of Search Web Services v1.0
Discussion Document


> Thanks for forwarding this, Ray.
>
> Now that I've moved into the biology community, I've become aware of
> the TAPIR search protocol (http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tapir/),
> which has much in common with SRU. I would love to see these two
> communities work together, and the SWS standardization process is a
> great time to see whether both can be merged into a single standard.
>
> I've started encouraging the TAPIR group to look at SRU, and I'll
> forward information about the Public Review to the TAPIR mailing list.
>
> I encourage SRU/SWS folks to look at the TAPIR specification to see
> whether any additional functionality would be useful for the SWS
> standard. One major difference is that TAPIR is database-oriented,
> while SRU is much more document-oriented. TAPIR allows client
> applications to specify a template for search responses, with the
> assumption that it is trivial to map between fields in a template and
> fields in the underlying database. I'm not sure whether there is an
> elegant way to reconcile the two models, but it's definitely worth
> some discussion.
>
> --- Ryan Scherle
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Ray Denenberg wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:57:11 -0500
> > From: Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
> > To: members@lists.oasis-open.org, tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Cc: search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [search-ws] Public Review of Search Web Services v1.0
> > Discussion
> >     Document
> >
> > To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:
> >
> > The OASIS Search Web Services TC has recently approved for public
> > review the
> > following Discussion Document:
> >
> > Search Web Services v1.0 Discussion Document
> >
> > This document: "Search Web Services Version 1.0  - Discussion
> > Document - 2
> > November 2007", was prepared by the OASIS Search Web Services TC as a
> > strawman proposal, for public review, intended to generate
> > discussion and
> > interest. It has no official status; it is not a Committee Draft. The
> > specification is based on the SRU (Search Retrieve via URL)
> > specification
> > which can be found at http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/. It is
> > expected that
> > this standard, when published, will deviate from SRU. How much it will
> > deviate cannot be predicted at this time. The fact that the SRU
> > spec is used
> > as a starting point for development should not be cause for concern
> > that
> > this might be an effort to rubberstamp or fasttrack SRU. The
> > committee hopes
> > to preserve the useful features of SRU, eliminate those that are not
> > considered useful, and add features that are not in SRU but are
> > considered
> > useful. The committee has decided to request OASIS to release this
> > as a
> > discussion document. Detailed review of this document is premature
> > at this
> > point and is not requested; feedback on the functionality and
> > approach is
> > solicited.  Feedback is requested by December 7.
> >
> > The public review starts today, 7 November 2007, and ends 7
> > December 2007.
> > This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage
> > feedback from
> > potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or
> > not, for
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> >
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> > technical
> > committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at
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> >
> > OASIS and the Search Web Services TC welcome your comments.
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > Mary P McRae
> > Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
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