SRW: Search and Retrieve Web Service

This site is the Cheshire project's SRW/U implementation work done by Rob Sanderson (azaroth@liv.ac.uk), one of the editors of the SRW protocol. Comments are welcomed.
2009-09: Site now maintained by John Harrison

Protocol Specifications

Definition of the SRW protocol and the CQL query language.

Note that this is the draft version 1.1 documentation, to be finalised by the 12th of January 2004 and subject to change until that date.

Context Sets

Context Sets defined for SRW.

Record Schemas

Record and Sort Schemas defined for SRW.

Downloads

Code which may be used for implementing SRW servers and clients, along with CQL parsing.

Services

Services that use SRW to enable access to databases.