[OAI-implementers] SOAP-PMH

Martijn Faassen faassen at infrae.com
Wed Dec 8 08:55:32 EST 2004


Hickey,Thom wrote:
> I was talking to someone at Google the other day about a possible
> service we could put up for them.  How to do it? HTTP-Get with a simple
> URL is what they were looking for.

Very interesting!

That sounds more like REST, then. OAI-PMH is quite far away along the 
road to REST, though its RESTfulness could still be increased -- 
everything going through the same URL as it does now is not very 
RESTful, for instance.

Regards,

Martijn



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