Re: [search-ws] Call Monday September 14 - action items

Your "responsibility" was "revised" at our recent 
call.   You were going to take over editorship of the scan document. 
That means make any changes you want, or you can add the data model and say that 
otherwise it's fine as it is.  --Ray

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  LeVan,Ralph 

  
To: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress ; OASIS SWS TC 

  
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:34 
  AM

  
Subject: RE: [search-ws] Call Monday 
  September 14 - action items

  

  

  
I 
  believe my responsibility for Scan was to provide a data 
  model.

  
 

  
Scan 
  is an operation that exposes the searchable terms of an index.  For Scan, 
  the index is modeled as an ordered list of terms.  The ordering is not 
  important to the operation, but is typically alphabetical.  The client 
  provides a seed term (which may not actually exist in the index) in its 
  request, as well as a count of the number of desired terms to be returned and 
  an indication of where in that list it would expect to find the seed term, 
  should it exist.  The server finds the search term closest to the seed 
  term in the ordered list of terms (the definition of close is left to the 
  server) and returns terms from that ordering using the position of the found 
  term to satisfy the position parameter in the request.

  
 

  
Example 
  1:

  
An 
  index contains the following terms:

  
alpha

  
bravo

  
charlie

  
delta

  
echo

  
foxtrot

  
golf

  
hotel

  
 

  
The 
  client provides “dog” as the seed term, and requests three terms be returned 
  with the seed term in position 2.  The server would return the list 
  charlie, delta, echo, if it decided that delta was closest to dog.  It 
  could also have returned delta, echo, foxtrot if it had decided that echo was 
  closer to dog.

  
 

  
Example 
  2:

  
From 
  the same list of terms, the client requests 3 terms with the seed term 
  “charlie” in position 0.  This will result in the terms delta, echo, 
  foxtrot being returned.

  
 

  
Ralph

  
 

  
 

  

  

  

  
From: Ray Denenberg, 
  Library of Congress [mailto:] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 
  08, 2009 11:14 AM
To: OASIS SWS TC
Subject: [search-ws] 
  Call Monday September 14 - action items

  
 

  

  
Reminder that we 
  have a call next Monday, September 14, and we have the following action 
  items:

  

  

Jan, 
  Ralph, Tony, Ashley - new explain draft. For review next call. Ashley to draft 
  "how to" section. 

Ralph - Scan 

Tony, Ralph, Nick - OpenSearch 
  

Matthew - SOAP, WSDL, etc. 

  

  
 

  

  
Any progress on any 
  of these?

  

  
 

  

  
--Ray