Date:         Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:34:26 -0500
Reply-To:     "Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative" <[log in to unmask]>
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From:         "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: draft announcement
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Sorry, typo.

Please send it.

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:25 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: draft announcement
> 
> 
> You "sent it"? Or did you mean "send it"  -- it's still draft.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:07 PM
> Subject: Re: draft announcement
> 
> 
> Sent it to the MetaSearch list.
> 
> Ralph
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:08 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: draft announcement
> >
> >
> > Unless anyone knows of a reason to hold up 1.1, I'd like to
> > announce it
> > early tomorrow.  Monday is a holiday here in the US (another
> > one of those
> > holidays that nobody can name) and if there are any problems
> > perhaps they'll
> > show up during the day tomorrow (or wait until Tuesday). I
> > won't have access
> > to our system during the three-day weekend.
> >
> > There may be a few bad links (I've fixed all the bad links I
> > could find, so
> > now you can start telling me about them) and a few technical
> > errors but not
> > enough to hold up release.
> >
> > I've drafted an announcement.  Comments are welcome, but I'd
> > like to post it
> > tomorrow morning. Give me suggestions on lists to post to
> > (I've though of
> > the ZIG list, so far).
> >
> > Here is the draft announcement:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> > SRW and CQL Version 1.1 Specifications Released.
> >
> > February 13, 2004.
> >
> >
> > The SRW Maintenance Agency at the Library of Conress, in
> > conjunction with
> > the SRW Development Group, announces the release of version
> > 1.1 of both SRW,
> > the Search/Retrieve Web Service, and CQL, the Common Query Language.
> >
> >
> >
> >             Version 1.1 supercedes Version 1.0 of SRW and
> > CQL, the initial,
> > experimental version, which was released November 2002.
> > Version 1.1 has been
> > in development for more than a year and is the first 
> official version.
> >
> >
> >
> > SRW is an XML-based protocol designed to be a
> > low-barrier-to-entry solution
> > for searching and other information retrieval operations across the
> > internet. It uses existing, well tested, and easily available
> > technologies,
> > such as SOAP, HTTP, and XPath, for functions that in the past
> > could only be
> > performed using proprietary solutions. The design reflects
> > the many years of
> > experience gained developing and using Z39.50; SRW is both
> > robust and easy
> > to understand while retaining the important aspects of its 
> predecessor
> > protocol. Web technologies reduce the barriers to new
> > information providers
> > allowing them to make their resources available via a
> > standard search and
> > retrieve service. Building on Z39.50 semantics enables the 
> creation of
> > gateways to existing Z39.50 systems.
> >
> >
> >
> > CQL is a formal language for representing queries to
> > information retrieval
> > systems, including web indexes, bibliographic catalogues, and
> > museum-collections information. Traditionally, query
> > languages are either
> > (on one hand) powerful and expressive but complex and
> > unfriendly -- SQL,
> > XQuery, Z39.50 -- or (on the other hand) simple and intuitive
> > but neither
> > powerful nor expressive, for example, Google.  CQL’s goal is
> > to combine the
> > simplicity and friendliness of Google searching with the
> > expressive power of
> > Z39.50, supporting queries ranging from very simple to
> > arbitrarily complex
> > expressions.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >      Home pages for SRW and CQL are  http://www.loc.gov/srw  and
> > http://www.loc.gov/cql.  Specifications are linked from these
> > pages. A list
> > of implementers is also available.
> >
> >
> >
> >     SRW and CQL version 1.1 specifications will be submitted
> > to NISO, the
> > National Information Standards Organization, as NISO Registrations.
> >
> >
> >
> >     The following are among those who have participated in
> > the development
> > of the SRW/CQL version 1.1 specification  or have otherwise
> > contributed to
> > the intellectual development of SRW and CQL (listed
> > alphabetically): Eliot
> > Christian, Ray Denenberg, Adam Dickmeiss,  Larry Dixson,
> > Matthew Dovey,
> > Sebastian Hammer, Janifer Gatenby, Poul Henrik Jørgensen ,
> > Alan Kent, Ralph
> > LeVan, Bill Moen, Rob Sanderson, Pat Stevens, Mike Taylor,
> > Theo Van Veen.
> >
> >
> >
> >     For information, contact Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress,
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
> >  -----------------------------------------------------
> >
>