[georss] [Mass-Market-GEO] OpenSearch Geo - Feedback

[Raj Singh]

OGC Catalog was designed to meet the needs of a vast array of  
organizations. Part of the "problem" is in catering to the librarian  
community and all their legacy protocol requirements. I'm not part of  
the library community, so a lot of the catalog spec seems pointless  
to me too, but I hear there's a lot of people who swear by the Z.39  
interface.

But we may have a "jack of all trades, master of none" problem here.  
An API that really works well for the Web may need to break away and  
have a spec of its own. I'm not sure any interoperability gains from  
having one spec can outweigh the advantages of having cleaner,  
simpler interfaces for each community.
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Raj


On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Sean Gillies wrote:

> OpenSearch embraces the web while the OGC Catalog tries  
> (pointlessly) to
> abstract away the web. OpenSearch fits naturally with Atom/Atompub and
> OGC Catalog does not. OpenSearch is for the Web. CSW is not. That's it
> in a nutsell.