> --- On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Nassib Nassar wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:19:02AM -0700, John A. Kunze wrote:
> > A perfectly reasonable application, for example, would be any system
> > (such as an OAI client or server) that delivers summary records for
> > collection objects using the ERC format and/or kernel metadata.
> > Also reasonable would be an indexing and search system.
>
> I wonder if the evaluation method should come first?  In other words,
> let Jane recommend an evaluation method, maybe get some feedback on
> that, and then put together the tools to support it.

That probably has its utility.  At the same time, I see application
development as proceeding on a separate thread from evaluation.

Out of curiosity, what kind of effort would you, as author of the
Amberfish search system, think is involved in making Amberfish churn
out ERC records?

A second question would be what effort is involved in making it index ERCs?
I suppose these questions are in themselves "evaluations" of how good a
job the draft specification is doing.

-John