Kat Hagedorn asked me to forward this to the list.
Perry Willett
California Digital Library
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Hagedorn, Kat <khage_at_umich.edu> wrote:
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> 1. As Perry Willett said, we did not sell OAIster to OCLC. No money
> exchanged hands.
> 2. Just to clarify: oaister.org will not exist, harvested records will
> instead exist in worldcat.org. OCLC will be doing their own harvesting.
> 3. Good to hear there's still interest in an API and services for federated
> searches. Tell it to OCLC! <oaister_at_oclc.org>
> 4. Diane Hillman's comment: "the loss of OAIster as an openly available OAI
> aggregator represents a huge loss"-- how is OAIster now not an openly
> available OAI aggregator? OCLC is harvesting the OAI metadata and putting it
> into worldcat.org. That sounds openly available and aggregated to me.
> 5. OAIster records were never available to harvest via OAI (we didn't turn
> around and make them re-harvestable), so I'm not sure I understand Diane's
> point about OAIster as a back-up source. Harvesting from individual sources
> is what OAI is all about. We *did* offer a method for accessing all our
> OAIster records via rsync, and I'm pretty sure we offered this to Thomas
> Krichel for him to use, for those who wanted everything at once. If you want
> this from OCLC, tell them. <oaister_at_oclc.org>
> 6. Oliver Flinn's comment: "Although I think OAIsters inclusion in "free"
> WorldCat ("free" as in WorldCat Record Use Policy efforts) is still a
> drawback - in case the current search interface disappears." Yes, it will
> disappear. If you want to make it possible to search OAIster only inside of
> worldcat.org, again, tell OCLC. <oaister_at_oclc.org>
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> I would also add, based on a later response:
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> 7. Thomas Dowling says: "But if I don't fill out their form and give them
> all the permissions they want, and they decide not to harvest us, that's
> their decision." Unfortunately, the OCLC press release can be read that way;
> however, there is no explicit permission needed for OCLC to continue
> harvesting your repository. For more information on the whys and wherefores
> around that request from OCLC, please contact them.
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Received on Mon Sep 21 2009 - 23:16:31 EDT