description language

SWS Committee Members --

 

We need redirect our efforts towards the 
description language; as we said at Thurday's call, aside from Janifer and 
me, all members should focus attention on this.  (Meanwhile Janifer and I 
will work on the openSearch binding and I will work on getting the other 
documents ready for release).

 

Ralph - you weren't at the call Thursday so we have 
volunteered you to work on this.  Larry and Rob agreed to join in the 
effort. So this means Ashley, Ralph, Larry, and 
Rob.  Matthew -- would you be able to help 
with this?

 

To reiterate what we discussed at the call: the 
descriptive language needs to describe both an arbitrary sever and one that 
supports, for example, SRU 1.2. The current draft treats arbitrary servers only. 
The language needs to be powerful and descriptive enough that if a server 
supports, for example, SRU 1.2, it can completely describe itself, without ever 
saying that it supports SRU 1.2. If a server supports openSearch it needs 
to be able to describe that via the description language, that is, our 
description language needs to be compatible with the openSearch description 
language. 

 

Could one of you volunteer to quickly draft up 
a document for discussion that treats both SRU 1.2 and openSearch?

 

Any other observations or comments about 
this?

 

--Ray