From: Jim D. <jim...@po...> - 2008-05-20 13:08:45
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Hi Ed, 2008/5/20 Ed Summers <eh...@po...>: > I imagine some of you are on the OAI-ORE discussion list, but I > figured it couldn't hurt to let you know about the discussion about > SWORD and OAI-ORE going on over there: > > http://groups.google.com/group/oai-ore/browse_thread/thread/9db65f427b096cf5 > > In short, there is already some exciting work going by Rob Sanderson, > Richard Jones and Simeon Warner. Also there is an interesting question > from Sean Gillies (which I also wondered about recently) about the > rationale behind not requiring feed representations for collections > [1]. Did you basically want to leave the door open to implementors to > do what they wanted, rather than being too prescriptive? That was exactly the motivation. The longer answer is that we were aware that much of the world would look at SWORD wondering how they could implement it in a single CGI; we had adoption as a higher priority than promoting web orientation. Of course, the world has turned faster in that direction than we might have expected, so it's reasonable to re-examine those decisions. > PS. The repository team at the Library of Congress is looking to > experiment a bit with SWORD in the near future...so I'm wondering > about what the future of SWORD is looking like, and if there is > anything we can do to help the effort. Julie's probably best placed to answer this. I'm excited about the LoC news though! jim |