Posted OpenSearch Extension for SRU to Google Groups

["Hammond, Tony" <t.hammond@nature.com>]

Hi:

I posted the OpenSearch Extension for SRU onto the OpenSearch Google Groups
list:

Link: 
http://groups.google.com/group/opensearch/browse_thread/thread/c4d7fe0c2abf3
309

Short Link: http://bit.ly/n8TuI

So far, one favourable comment from DeWitt.

Please post any feedback there, or here. We do need to determine a couple
things especially:

    * Licence (Default CC licence OK?)

    * Namespace (I guess proposed is OK)

    * Matter of deprecated elements - how best to handle

This last point is important in that we want to account for all SRU
parameters for completeness' sake, yet cannot be treading on OpenSear toes.
Three SRU parameters collide with OpenSearch semantics:

    * sru:query = opensearch:searchTerms

    * sru:startRecord = opensearch:startIndex

    * sru:maximumRecords = opensearch:count

I don't know if it might be better to move these parameters off to a Legacy
Parameters section rather than deprecating them as such. Introducing them
inline and then deprecating has a couple disadvantages: 1) it gets in the
way, and 2) it demeans the SRU parameters which are perfectly valid imn
their own context - but not in an OpenSearch context.

Re the length of the spec and liberal use of examples, I was wwaiting to
hear back from the OpenSearch list. My feeling is that the examples do help,
and that this is probably acceptable in terms of length.

Cheers,

Tony


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