I'm the only non-techie on the team, so I don't know that much about SRU. (Our head programmer lives in India, and is presumably asleep at the moment, otherwise I'd ask him!) Is it an interface that is used primarily by libraries? We are definitely hoping that our API will be used by all kinds, so perhaps that's the reasoning.
It's designed to be used by all kinds of clients on all kinds of data, but is from the library world so perhaps the most well defined use cases are in this arena. Have a look at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/
But this is an Open Source project, so if anyone would like to volunteer to build an SRU interface... you can! Please do! :-)
I feel a student project coming on. :) Rob
