- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:07:14 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Sebastian Hammer <quinn@indexdata.dk>
- cc: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>, <www-zig@w3.org>
(+cc: Liam Quin) On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Sebastian Hammer wrote: [XML/Z39.50 search proposal snipped] (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-zig/2002Apr/0047.html) > WHY BOTHER? > > Will it "sell" better? It still won't win the world, but > you can't miss the fact that the W3C *still* doesn't have a suitable IR > protocol. Maybe the slot is still open. Heheh, fair point. imho. XML query isn't quite in this space, on my understanding, and RDF query systems tend to be more focussed on graph matching, less on text-oriented searching. I think there are folk in the XML query group looking at extensions for full text search. I'll try to track down details on that (Liam, can you comment at all?). BTW If folk are Web-izing Z39.50, feedback on the W3C SOAP 1.2 designs would be useful. I think Last Call is expected soon. I'd (speaking as a developer) certainly be interested in seeing this Searching XML proposal worked through and implemented. I'm not sure W3C are shopping for an IR protocol right now, but anything that bridges the XML mainstream technologies with Z39.50 can only be good for the digital library community. FWIW we've been having a related thread on the RDF Interest Group lately, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2002Apr/0182.html One idea I'm hoping to implement is to use RDF tools at a data merging layer, and then (for IR purposes) write out records in GILS or whatever to load into Zebra and/or Cheshire for query. I'm also trying to figure out how XPath based matching fits into the various RDF query proposals out there... Anyhow, interesting proposal. I need to think about the details some more... best wishes, Dan -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/
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