Comments on: Book Industry Study Group sets standard for digital repositories http://www.teleread.com/digital-libraries/book-industry-study-group-sets-standard-for-digital-repositories/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Timothy Murray http://www.teleread.com/digital-libraries/book-industry-study-group-sets-standard-for-digital-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-981866 Timothy Murray Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:24:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=14363#comment-981866 Daniel I agree with you 100%! This document is trying to create a standard were several already exist. It is neither especially well framed nor are specifics an imporvement. SRU / SRW is one standard and there are Z39.50 and OHI-PMH. And there is ACAP. All doing the same thing. And let's not forget Google's first click free. Standards are a good thing but, when there are several standards competing in a relatively small space they are not really standard, are they? Daniel I agree with you 100%! This document is trying to create a standard were several already exist. It is neither especially well framed nor are specifics an imporvement. SRU / SRW is one standard and there are Z39.50 and OHI-PMH. And there is ACAP. All doing the same thing. And let’s not forget Google’s first click free. Standards are a good thing but, when there are several standards competing in a relatively small space they are not really standard, are they?

]]> By: Daniel Udsen http://www.teleread.com/digital-libraries/book-industry-study-group-sets-standard-for-digital-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-981857 Daniel Udsen Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:06:37 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=14363#comment-981857 hmm at first glance it just look buzzword complient, web2.1 sematic markupped thats really just a poor uncompatible reimplementation of Docbook xml, and way to rigid and complex to be of much use for ajax hackers. On top of that they have designed at complete and probably newer to be used API for providing search results based on categorised search and as far as i can sea not compatible with too advanced algoritms. It's in many way like the epub not really that stupid but not adding anything new, and not really compatible with anything currently in existance. in reallity nothing else but an extra layer of complexity. hmm at first glance it just look buzzword complient, web2.1 sematic markupped thats really just a poor uncompatible reimplementation of Docbook xml, and way to rigid and complex to be of much use for ajax hackers.

On top of that they have designed at complete and probably newer to be used API for providing search results based on categorised search and as far as i can sea not compatible with too advanced algoritms.

It’s in many way like the epub not really that stupid but not adding anything new, and not really compatible with anything currently in existance. in reallity nothing else but an extra layer of complexity.

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