[Dev] retrieving the CQL endpoints from the center registry

[Herman Stehouwer]

On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Matej Durco wrote:

>> I don't exactly understand what you mean, but I would think that it 
>> would be good to have all the necessary information at one point. I'm 
>> parsing the center registry now to find the endpoints, can't we add 
>> these information there:
>> 
>> <WebReference>
>> <Website>http://weblicht.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/rws/cqp-ws/cqp/sru
>> </Website><Description>CQL</Description>
>> 
>> <lang>de</lang>
>> 
>> </WebReference>
>> 
>> When we are not storing information about individual corpora here, 
>> every endpoint can only serve one language. But I think this shouldn't 
>> be a problem because every center can define as many endpoints as they 
>> want.
> 
> Perhaps we can agree, to handle language special, because of importance,
> but generally I agree here with Dieter, that the conceptually most sane 
> because in line with existing infrastructure (CMDI) seems to be to 
> provide CMDI-records for collections
> and establish links (via ResourceProxy ) between the endpoint and its 
> corpora/collections.
> Especially because, later we will want to filter by other information 
> than language,
> and where do we stop duplicating this information from the collection 
> records to the endpoint record?

Exactly.
We have recently release a (small) modification to the CMDI standard to solve exactly this problem.

Cheers,

Herman