I feel the same way. We're just getting some good take-up of SRW, its a real
shame to go and push in another direction, especially when SRW has potential
as a basis for a whole range of discovery protocols. Pity.
- S
On 29/1/04 11:47 am, "Paul Hollands" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I share your disappointment that they don't seem to be working with or
> at least investigating the SRW stuff.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Andy Powell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Phil Barker wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2) CEN/ISSS Work on Simple Query Interface has started
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Together with the ARIADNE consortium and the European Schoolnet, the ELENA
>>> consortium has successfully initiated the standardization work on a simple
>>> query
>>> interface for learning object repositories. The goal of this initiative,
>>> which
>>> is hosted by the CEN/ISSS, is to develop a common communication framework
>>> for
>>> exchanging queries between heterogeneous educational nodes. We consider this
>>> work as an important milestone for building so called "Smart Spaces for
>>> Learning". The first release of the specification will be announced in this
>>> mailing list(*).
>>> --
>>>
>>> More information on Elena can be found here http://www.elena-project.org/
>>> and
>>> public draft 0.51 of SQI can be found at:
>>> http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/e-learning/interoperability/
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It seems a shame that this doesn't build on SRW, about which it says
>>
>> --- cut ---
>> SRW takes advantage of CQL ("Common Query Language"), a powerful query
>> language, which is a human-readable-string query-representation. SRW has
>> many similarities with the specification presented in this paper. It
>> introduces two main methods searchRetrieveRequest and
>> searchRetrieveResponse, both, with quite a number of parameters. Return
>> schemas are determined by the target system. No listener method is
>> supported.
>> --- cut ---
>>
>> but doesn't really explain why something new had to be invented.
>>
>> My gut feeling is that this proposal is probably fine if all you are
>> interested in searching is learning object repositories - but if you
>> acknowledge up front that most real-world services are going to want to
>> search across lots of kinds of repositories, then you need standards that
>> are more broadly based than just e-learning.
>>
>> But perhaps I'm being very unfair about it? I'd be interested in other's
>> comments.
>>
>> Andy
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>>
>>
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