The TEL project reports one of its main outcomes to be a “flexible systems architecture based on the SRU protocol”.
They have also produced an interim report on metadata issues. One of the interesting things about TEL is their support for the idea of collection level description (CLD) as a form of ‘forward knowledge’ of library collections to support selection for further inspection.
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