Date:         Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:57:28 +0000
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Subject:      Re: Betr.: Re: Several things
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> Your example of metasearching shows EAD between MARCXML. This
> illustrates that we need to be capable of accepting mixed record schemas
> when doing metasearching. Are these databases distributed ?

Yup, it multiplexes the searches using different threads before combining
them again into the SRW response.  It's really just experimental at the
moment, to see what the issues that come up are.

Rob

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