- Title
- Distributed Search Description Profile
- Description
- The Distributed Search Description Profile provides standards and guidance for describing and discovering the description for federated Search Services.
Taxonomy
Standards
Guidance
The Search Services shall construct a Search Description as an OpenSearch Description Document (OSDD) compliant with OpenSearch 1.1.
The Search Services Search Description shall contain a URL request template for each Search Response format that it supports (indicated by the URL @type attribute value).
Each URL template provided in the Search Services Search Description shall contain a URL template {searchTerms} parameter.
Other parameters used in the URL request template are recommended to be optional.
Enabling metadata-based searches will require other parameters. The parameter names are required to match the formal metadata element name as specified in ADatP-5636 Edition A Version 1.0.
The Search Services Provider shall publish the Search Description to the same host as the Search Services.
The Search Services, when requested, SHALL return a Search Description.
The Search Services may support auto-discovery of a Search Description, as specified in OpenSearch 1.1.
The Search Applications shall validate all Search Descriptions that it retrieves prior to use.