[tdwg-tapir] TAPIR and the standardization of SRU

Thu Nov 8 12:21:56 CET 2007

Dave,

I suspect the convergence is because they are all heading towards a  
simple RESTful HTTP GET service rather than by dint of their common  
ancestry.

If one were to start from scratch today having never seen z39.50 then  
one would probably come up with something similar.

All the best,

Roger

On 8 Nov 2007, at 03:00, Dave Vieglais wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
> there is indeed a good deal of similarity between the interfaces
> exposed by TAPIR and SRU.  I suspect there would be mostly superficial
> alterations required to the TAPIR key+value URL interface to support
> much of SRU.
>
> As an aside I find it interesting, and somewhat encouraging that the
> both SRU and TAPIR derive from a common ancestor (z39.50) and though
> taking divergent development streams, seem to arriving at similar
> outcomes.  Convergent evolution of protocols.
>
> Dave V.
>
> On Nov 7, 2007 3:10 PM, Ryan Scherle <res20 at duke.edu> wrote:
>> Hello TAPIRians,
>>
>> I've recently moved from the library world into the biology world,  
>> and I'm
>> noticing that TAPIR has a lot in common with the SRU standard that is
>> gaining popularity in the library world. I would like to encourage
>> collaboration between the two communities, and see whether it is  
>> possible to
>> forge a single standard out of the two. One major difference is  
>> that TAPIR
>> is database-oriented, while SRU is much more document-oriented,  
>> but this
>> should be possible to overcome.
>>
>> SRU has been recently been turned over to the OASIS standards body  
>> as source
>> material for developing a general-purpose web services search  
>> standard. As a
>> part of this standardization process, the initial draft document  
>> has been
>> opened for public comments (see below). If you have comments, you  
>> can post
>> them at the URL indicated. If you work for an institution that is  
>> a member
>> of OASIS, I believe you can still join the committee and vote on  
>> issues
>> related to the standardization.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Ryan Scherle
>> --- Digital Data Repository Architect
>> --- NESCent
>>
>>
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