What's New?

Tuesday 27th July 2010

• Release 1.7 [changes] of CQL-Java.

Thursday 17th June 2010

• Release 1.6 [changes] of CQL-Java.
• Posted changes for the unreleased version 1.5

Friday 21st May 2010

• Release 1.4 [changes] of CQL-Java.

Wednesday 28th May 2008

• Release 1.3 [changes] of CQL-Java.

Tuesday 15th April 2008

• Added a link to Chick Markley's CQL-Ruby.

Friday 21st September 2007

• Added three new releases of the CQL-Java package These releases have been created over the last three months, but until now had only been given to the National Library of Australia, who sponsored the work.

Wednesday 1st February 2006

• Major overhaul of the SRU over HTTP POST proposal, including a discussion of issues arising.

Friday 27th January 2006

• Added a proposal for SRU over HTTP POST.

Tuesday 20th December 2005

• Added a proposal for sorting in CQL.

Monday 20th September 2004

• Added a reference to Ed Summers's new CQL parser in Perl, the CQL::Parser module.
• Fixed the URL to the Python CQL parser.

Thursday 19th February 2004

• Added an irc session between Rob and Ralph, displaying some classes of possible SRW interoperability problems.

Tuesday 6th January 2004

• Assign the Bath Profile a version number (2.0, corresponding the version number of the Z39.50 profile on which it is based) and a unique URI. Move the document to that URI, http://zing.z3950.org/srw/bath/2.0/

Thursday 11th December 2003

• Add the first public draft of a new Bath Profile for SRW/CQL.

Tuesday 16th September 2003

• Tweak the CQL tutorial, to refer throughout to ``indexes'' rather than ``qualifiers''.

Friday 5th September 2003

• First version of the new profiling proposal for CQL, primarily for feedback from the co-authors at this stage.

Thursday 4th September 2003

• Release 0.7 [changes] of CQL-Java.

Tuesday 29th July 2003

• Release 0.6 [changes] of CQL-Java.

Friday 11th July 2003

• Belately update the proximity section of the CQL tutorial to reflect the change in order, long ago, of the proximity parameters. I'm amazed I didn't do this at the time - sorry. (And thanks to Rob Sanderson for pointing it out.)

Wednesday 5th February 2003

• Release 0.5 [changes] of CQL-Java.

Thursday 21st November 2002

• Fixed a lot of links in the CQL tutorial, broken when the Maintenance Agency moved everything around.
• Re-ordered the list of qualifier sets to correspond with the way the MA does it, and added prose about the Zthes qualifier-set.

Wednesday 20th November 2002

• Release 0.4 [changes] of CQL-Java.

Sunday 17th November 2002

• Added a new section on qualifier-set mapping to the CQL tutorial; also a description of the new phonetic relation modifier.

Friday 15th November 2002

• Release 0.3 [changes] of CQL-Java, my Java CQL Compiler and related utilities.

Wednesday 6th November 2002

• Release 0.2 [changes] of CQL-Java, my Java CQL Compiler and related utilities.

Sunday 3rd November 2002

• First release of my Java CQL Compiler, rather uninspiringly called CQL-Java.

Thurday 24th October 2002

• Added an index page for the CQL area.

Tuesday 22nd October 2002

• Finalise version 0.1a (first ZING-list release) of the CQL tutorial.
• Opened this site to the members of the ZING mailing list, to get initial feedback on the CQL tutorial before releasing more widely.

Monday 21st October 2002

• Finish first draft (v0.1) of the Introduction to CQL
• Add the first tentative steps towards a test-suite for CQL.

Friday 20th October 2002

• First, embryonic, version of this site.