Re: [search-ws] Draft OpenSearch SRU Extension for Review

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

Tony - how do you see the OpenSearch SRU Extension relationship to 
OpenSearch Binding document?  Would these two be integrated or separate?

--Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hammond, Tony" <t.hammond@nature.com>
To: <rden@loc.gov>; <search-ws@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:39 AM
Subject: [search-ws] Draft OpenSearch SRU Extension for Review


> Hi All:
>
> Just sharing ahead of tomorrow's call a draft for an OpenSearch SRU
> Extension:
>
>    http://nurture.nature.com/opensearch/sru/
>
> This is aligned with latest (Oct. 19) SRU 2.0 draft and includes all 
> request
> parameters.
>
> An SRU Extension would be a key step in OpenSearch/SRU alignment, not 
> least
> because we now have SRU implementations which are OpenSearch addressable.
>
> The draft is reasonably complete (in terms of parameters) but might need
> some additional text up front.
>
> Some issues:
>
>    1. License. This draft (following other examples) states that:
>
>    "This document is made available subject to the terms of the Creative
> Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License."
>
>    Are we OK with that, or do we want another license?
>
>
>    2. Namespace. I just followed current OpenSearch usage and put a
> namespace as
>
>     http://a9.com/-/opensearch/extensions/sru/2.0/
>
>    I guess we would want to set our own namespace. I also think it might 
> be
> useful to version as SRU version (i.e. "2.0").
>
>    (For the nature.com OpenSearch service we are currently using a local
> namespace:
>
>    http://www.nature.com/opensearch/ns/opensearch/extensions/sru/
>
>    but would like to upgrade to a more standard form.)
>
>
>    3. Format. For demo purposes I'm using the OpenSearch doc template. I
> would hope that we can go ahead with this format and register the document
> to appear in the standard OpenSearch extension directory:
>
>    http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensions
>
>
>    4. Parameters. I have marked the following parameters as deprecated
> since they are synonyms for OpenSearch parameters:
>
>    * sru:query [ = "searchTerms" ]
>
>    * sru:startRecords [ = "startIndex" ]
>
>    * sru:maximumRecords [ = "count" ]
>
>    (I think the last two are effective synonyms - need to double check.)
>
>
> Hopefully we can discuss further tomorrow.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
>
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