Search/Retrieve Web Service

Search/Retrieve Web service (SRW) is a web service for search and retrieval. SRW provides a SOAP interface to queries, to augment the URL interface provided by its companion protocol Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU). Queries in SRU and SRW are expressed using the Contextual Query Language (CQL).

Standards for SRW, SRU, and CQL are promulgated by the United States Library of Congress.

External links

• SRU Home Page
• SRW (now known as SRU VIA HTTP SOAP)
• CQL Home Page

Implementations

• refbase
• RefDB
• Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand has implemented Search/Retrieve Web.[dead link]

See also

• Z39.50