[WEB4LIB] Re: SRW/U for DSpace

[Edward Spodick]

At 1:24 PM -0500 14/12/2004, Drew, Bill wrote:
>What does the user gain from using the SRW/U interface over a web opac

At the moment - absolutely nothing.  In fact, I believe they lose some functionality.  That's why most of our users do not even know about that interface alternative.  It is exploratory for us.  It may prove more useful, for example, in a federated searching architecture; or for some other SOAP-based Web services or development projects.  We don't know how this will work out yet, but as it was fairly simple to implement we decided to go ahead and have it available.

-Spode


> > -----Original Message-----
>> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
>> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Edward Spodick
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:22 AM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list
>> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: SRW/U for DSpace
>>
>> At 7:43 AM -0800 24/11/2004, Ross Singer wrote:
>> >Does anybody use this:
>> >http://www.oclc.org/research/software/srw/default.htm
>> >SRW/U interface on their DSpace repository?
>>
>>
>> Well, we have got it working for ours:
>> Repository:  http://repository.ust.hk/
>> SRW interface: http://repository.ust.hk/SRW/
>>


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