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

[Jason Cupp]

Would anyone like to donate or suggest a public wiki for this page? I'll
attempt it and at least get the major points in there...

Thanks, Jason

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[mailto:georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Turner
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 4:57 AM
To: Raj Singh; mass-market-geo at opengeospatial.org
Cc: Cameron Shorter; georss at lists.eogeo.org
Subject: Re: [georss] [Mass-Market-GEO] OpenSearch Geo - Feedback

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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