Bibliography

SECTIONS: New - Introductory - SRU & OAI - OpenURL - CQL -  Implementation - Projects - Update - Presentations - Blogs - Miscellaneous

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New

• A Look at New Information Retrieval Protocols: SRU, OpenSearch/A9, CQL, and XQuery [PDF: 394 K / 8 p.]
  Sally McCallum, Library of Congress.  IFLA 2006, Seoul.

Introductory

• An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)
  Eric Lease Morgan,University Libraries of Notre Dame. In ARIADNE, Issue 40 July 2004. Describes "sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses."

SRU and OAI

• SRW/U with OAI: Expected and Unexpected Synergies
  Robert Sanderson, University of Liverpool; Jeff Young, OCLC; Ralph LeVan, OCLC. In D-Lib Magazine, February 2005, Volume 11 Number 2

SRU and OpenURL

• SRU (Search and Retrieve URL) and OpenURL services for heterogeneous repositories (no longer available)
  Discovery+: Brokerage for Deep and Distributed e-Learning Resources Discovery. JISC e-Learning Programme.

CQL

• CQL Introduction [PPT: 150 K]
  Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress, March 2005.
• CQL – a Common Query Language [PPT: 115 K]
  Mike Taylor, Index Data.
• SRW and CQL  [PDF: 314 K / 18 p.]
  Rob Sanderson, University of Liverpool.

Implementation

• Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services
  Xiaorong Xiang and Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame. In D-Lib Magazine, October 2005

Projects

• Search and Retrieval in The European Library: A New Approach
  Theo van Veen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Bill Oldroyd, British Library.

Update

• "C.R.U.D." WebServices and Record Update
  Matthew J. Dovey, 28 October 2004

Presentations

• Key Standards Update: SRU [PPT: 186 K]
  Ray Denenberg and Rob Sanderson.  CNI Spring 2006 Task Force Meeting Project Update.

Blogs

• What is SRW/U?
  TechEssence.Info  Eric Lease Morgan.
  

Miscellaneous

• A Rest-ful Web Services Approach to Library Federated Search using SRU [PPT: 1.64 MB]
  Kevin Reiss; Rutgers-Newark Law Library; CALI 2005 – June 11th
• Delivering MARC/XML records from the Library of Congress catalogue using the open protocols SRW/U and Z39.50[PDF: 196 K / 9 p.], Mike Taylor, Index Data, London, UK; Adam Dickmeiss Index Data, Copenhagen, Denmark. IFLA 2005 Oslo