Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

  Jonathan Rochkind writes

> Okay, who wants to start a new project to do what OAISter did,

  I already have a bunch of records, I'd be happy to share.

mamf_at_wotan:~$ du -s opt/oai_dc/oa/
17385384        opt/oai_dc/oa/
  
  I have

mamf_at_wotan:~/opt/oai_dc/oa$ ls -lt | grep -c ^
902

  901 archives. 

  I am collecting these for AuthorClaim. I will work in the next few
  weeks to feed them into AuthorClaim.
 
  I am also happy to share sources dataset---from DOAR, with some
  enhancements---and scripts, in Perl. Just authorize this key:

mamf_at_wotan:~$ cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub 
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA27mF7IXkQbGT/j/d+7pYbKufKZNAT9gf1/gt9YoQzJE2///jaD/SGsqW6nc/5Uw64uqycnkmAXhnRsW5ib8L+0HdrcWAu/j+xiEx6XFh8kcwT1kS2MDVCUttNXSG3MTQ3YHDVH8TtGHiz98GiSxbSVHrko1YpEGZOdRwjp30kEZ1WsU44fg62dL4f1FJu4y4lUM/BjQdxDz5keJPLIVw98a7bBSm1hROitmSQVZlbPpEBcDPmdnpuDmfHoE8zFAXCquA8PytVKSPJ0lBEMQGwm3qShU6zqtV8gBkLNEqpU4ZRIUKsMAlZ+fJ7Wcm0+K+ukOvCM0BBr7SbiTvxmJEqQ== mamf_at_wotan.liu.edu
  
> Maybe Mellon Foundation would fund it, are they still funding such
> things?
  
  If they fund something, it will be short-lived, and make the project
  more difficult to sustain in the long run. RePEc does not have any
  funding, and runs just fine with a much more elaborate set of
  services than you would be providing here.

  You can rent a server for $100 a month, and do the development with
  a bunch of guys in your leisure time. I'd be happy to provide you
  with backup. Once I get a replacement for wotan, I just buy a
  terabyte disk for $100, that will do the trick.  I can also give you
  a domains foo.openlib.org, and provide you with accces to the
  openlib.org DNS server to manage your records.

> but better and still free?

  As regards to better, I have numerous ideas. Compatibility with ariw
  and AuthorClaim would be one thing, transparency in construction,
  replication and usage would be others.  I can elaborate on this
  later. I still have a hangover from last night's software freedom
  day party in the city ;-)

  Note also that Bielefeld are still running BASE. Getting them
  involved would probably be a good idea. 


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
                                               skype: thomaskrichel