On Fri, 21-Apr-2006 19:13 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > With the right element extensions, wouldn't this be something to let > > OOo update remote databases? Or is the lack of RSS 1.0 the deal > > breaker here? > > Am not sure. I like that we're seeing some engagement between the SRU > and Opensearch communities
Yes, I agree and this is quite cool. > and clearly we'll have to watch all this, but this all seems rather > chaotic right now. Am actually mildly disappointed in Google. Actually, I thought they'd do worse and I was positively astonished that they try to make use of existing things such as Atom, RSS and OpenSearch. I think they could have at least mentioned SRU, though. That said, I fully agree, that SRU + OpenSearch feels more comfortable. Regarding refbase, we are actually thinking of using CQL universally as our main query language, i.e. not only in connection with the SRU webservice but also for the interface. I was emailing with Rob yesterday and he pointed me to his latest playground, a Google query -> CQL converter: <http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/gocqle.html> which is pretty nice! One option for refbase would be to mimick a Google-like search syntax (which has the benefit of being simple and familiar to most of the users) and convert this into valid CQL internally. Then, everything would be based on these CQL queries (which could be also modified manually). But IMHO, the main thing that is attractive with the Google API is that it allows for PUT, POST and DELETE actions, not only GET. I'd rather like to adopt their API then struggle with inventing my own. Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
