libsru-perl - 1.01-3 main

The SRU package provides a framework for working with the Search and
Retrieval by URL (SRU) protocol developed by the Library of Congress. SRU
defines a web service for searching databases containing metadata and
objects. SRU often goes under the name SRW which is a SOAP version of the
protocol. You can think of SRU as a RESTful version of SRW, since all the
requests are simple URLs instead of XML documents being sent via some sort of
transport layer.
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You might be interested in SRU if you want to provide a generic API for
searching a data repository and a mechanism for returning metadata records.
SRU defines three verbs: explain, scan and searchRetrieve which define the
requests and responses in a SRU interaction.
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This set of modules attempts to provide a framework for building an SRU
service. The distribution is made up of two sets of Perl modules: modules in
the SRU::Request::* namespace which represent the three types of requests;
and modules in the SRU::Response::* namespace which represent the various
responses.