Very useful email, thanks.
And like many, I appreciate the University of Michigan providing this
service.
If I'm reading correctly OCLC have simply got a copy of the data from
OAIster. In that sense I presume there is nothing stopping others from
also grabbing the data and making it available?
Chris
On 22/09/2009 04:14, Perry Willett wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Hagedorn, Kat<khage_at_umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> ****
>> 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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Chris Keene C.J.Keene_at_sussex.ac.uk
Technical Development Manager Tel (01273) 877950
University of Sussex Library
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/
Received on Tue Sep 22 2009 - 05:04:38 EDT