Library Cataloging
An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) by Eric Lease Morgan appears in the latest Ariadne.
- Search And Discovery
The archived version of Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries is now available.?Why can?t I search the library the way Google searches the Web??Librarians have been fielding that question for more than a decade...
- Mods
Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under by Roxanne Missingham appears in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine.Australian libraries have shared resources and records for over two decades through Kinetica, a service provided by...
- Catalog Searching
The SRW Maintenance Agency at the Library of Congress, in conjunction with the SRW Development Group, announces the release of version 1.1 of SRW, the Search/Retrieve Web Service; SRU, Search and Retrieve by URL; and CQL, the Common Query Language.SRW...
- Z39.50
OASIS has released a position paper and is seeking comments. Search Service Interoperability edited by Eliot Christian.Governments are recommended to enhance interoperability among their networked systems by adopting a common search service. The search...
- Gils
Just received this notice about the Government Information Locator Service:Through the efforts of several people, we now have a draft Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file for the GILS search service, available for review.This draft only defines...
Library Cataloging
Searching
An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) by Eric Lease Morgan appears in the latest Ariadne.
This article is an introduction to the "brother and sister" Web Service protocols named Search/Retrieve Web Service (SRW) and Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) with an emphasis on the later. More specifically, the article outlines the problems SRW/U are intended to solve, the similarities and differences between SRW and SRU, the complimentary nature of the protocols with OAI-PMH, and how SRU is being employed in a sponsored NSF (National Science Foundation) grant called OCKHAM to facilitate an alerting service. The article is seasoned with a bit of XML and Perl code to illustrate the points. The canonical home page describing SRW/U is also a useful starting point.
- Search And Discovery
The archived version of Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries is now available.?Why can?t I search the library the way Google searches the Web??Librarians have been fielding that question for more than a decade...
- Mods
Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under by Roxanne Missingham appears in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine.Australian libraries have shared resources and records for over two decades through Kinetica, a service provided by...
- Catalog Searching
The SRW Maintenance Agency at the Library of Congress, in conjunction with the SRW Development Group, announces the release of version 1.1 of SRW, the Search/Retrieve Web Service; SRU, Search and Retrieve by URL; and CQL, the Common Query Language.SRW...
- Z39.50
OASIS has released a position paper and is seeking comments. Search Service Interoperability edited by Eliot Christian.Governments are recommended to enhance interoperability among their networked systems by adopting a common search service. The search...
- Gils
Just received this notice about the Government Information Locator Service:Through the efforts of several people, we now have a draft Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file for the GILS search service, available for review.This draft only defines...