Re: OpenSearch - draft note

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

I've gotten no response on this. If I don't hear from anyone by noon
tomorrow I'll assume it's fine.
--Ray
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>
To: <search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: OpenSearch - draft note


> Here is a draft note I propose to send to the OpenSearch list.  Please
> comment.   Please try to comment no later than noon Friday. I would like
to
> post this before the end of the day Friday (I'll be away Monday and
> Tuesday).
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> --Ray
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> DRAFT MESSAGE
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> I'm posting this note on behalf of the OASIS Search Web Service Technical
> Committee.
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=search-ws
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> We want to ensure that our work is aligned with OpenSearch.
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> Among the specification we are developing are SRU and 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.
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> We invite you to look at http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/oasis.html which
> is our best effort to summarize 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.
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> 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 any
> errors brought to our intentions.
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> We invite critique 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.
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