Fw: Description Language: Invitation to participate in OASIS SWS TC Development

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

Second forwarded message.  --Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>
To: <ZNG@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:00 PM
Subject: Description Language: Invitation to participate in OASIS SWS TC
Development


In conjunction with the invitation (see recent related message) to
participate in the development of SRU/CQL 2.0, the OASIS Search Web Services
Technical Committee also invites  participation in the development of the
SWS Description Language.

The Description Language will be used to write description files describing
an SWS binding: capabilities and general characteristic of a search engine
and how it may be accessed.

For example consider the hypothetical description file below, including  a
general description (<databaseInfo>), a request formulation element
(<requestInfo>), and a response interpretation element (<responseInfo>).

<sws>
<!-- -->
   <databaseInfo>
      <name>Science Fiction Database</name>
       <shortName>SciFi</shortName>
       <contact>
              <name>Ralph LeVan</name>
              <email>levan@oclc.org</email>
      </contact>
   </databaseInfo>
<!-- -->
   <requestInfo>
     <template>
           http://orlabs.oclc.org/SRW/search/scifi
          ?query=cql.any+%3D+%22{query}%22&version=1.1
          &operation=searchRetrieve&maximumRecords={maximumItems}
         &startRecord={startPosition}
     </template>
     <example>
            http://orlabs.oclc.org/SRW/search/scifi
           ?query=cql.any+%3D+%22ninja+turtles%22&version=1.1
           &operation=searchRetrieve&maximumRecords=10&startRecord=1
      </example>
   </requestInfo>
<!-- -->
  <responseInfo type='xml' xmlns:srw='http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/'>
     <numberOfItems>
         <tagpath>/srw:searchRetrieveResponse/numberOfRecords</tagpath>
      </numberOfItems>
   <item>
         <tagpath>
        /srw:searchRetrieveResponse/srw:records/srw:record/srw:recordData
       </tagpath>
    </item>
    <diagnostics>
      <tagpath>/srw:searchRetrieveResponse/srw:diagnostics</tagpath>
      </diagnostics>
    </responseInfo>
  </sws>

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We invite SRU implementors to join the effort to develop this description
language.

Ashley Sanders will be the lead Technical Committee member for this
activity. Additional TC members who will participate actively in this
activity are Ralph LeVan, Larry Dixson, Rob Sanderson, and Janifer Gatenby.

--Ray Denenberg