The U.S. government is not alone is wanting to support a single search standard across government offices, but it offers everybody a helpful hand as it posts this discussion document outlining basic criteria for such a standard. Which seems like a good idea, but... rather than go through the time and expense of having every department change its search service and function to a single standard, it makes more sense to provide a single service - a 'gateway', if you will, that will accept search requests and submit them to various departments in the format they already support. This latter is (more or less) the approach that was taken by eduSource, with the result now that we can connect to repositories around the world without forcing them to comply to our standards. Oh, and people: please date your documents (as Rory would say, there have to be some standards)!!!
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