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

[Andrew Turner]

Bringing Mass Market Geo back into the thread and suggesting we drop
GeoRSS (since not explicitly pertinent to that list)

Can someone who does know the OGC Catalog spec well - and hopefully
have actually implemented it once - write up a 1 HTML page description
of it with examples - in a similar vein to the OpenSearch-Geo
description? It may help shed light on differences/discrepancies etc.

I would love to read it.

Thanks,
Andrew

On 10/8/07, Raj Singh <raj at rajsingh.org> wrote:
> 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.
> ---
> 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.
>
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