[OAI-implementers] Trying to gauge interest on two features

[Andy Powell]

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Fran[ISO-8859-1] çois Schiettecatte wrote:

> 1) Providing a way for people to get the query results as an XML file in RSS
> format and, by extension, allowing people to subscribe to a search as a RSS
> feed.
>
> 2) Providing a SOAP search interface to the search engine. This is an XML
> based protocol for exchanging information between clients and servers. For
> example Google and Amazon provide SOAP interfaces to their systems.

Both ideas sounds good to me.

I'd look at using SRW as your SOAP interface...

  http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/

Andy
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