Ross Singer writes
> I'm not quite sure what OAI-PMH would offer in this situation.
An incremental harversting facility. There are others, of
course. Public rsync appears best (cheap and fast), but I personally
have not played with this yet. A good old ftp site like
http://3lib.org will also do, with software such as the Perl mirror
suite available on the client side.
For the record I was a member of the committee that put OAI-PMH
together. But I have no particular attachment to the protocol. At
the time I was particular critical of the requirement for Dublin
Core metadata.
> The value-add of OCLC's shared cataloging is that it provides a
> searchable aggregated index of bibliographic records that
That can be built once the data is available.
> Certainly, somebody else could provide a similar service to OCLC's
> (and they exist: SkyRiver, LibLime's Biblios, Talis Base, etc.) and
> this could be facilitated by harvesting from OAI-PMH providers, but
> OAI-PMH itself wouldn't help alleviate the problem we're seeing here.
You need some harvesting facility. Right now, I understand, there
is none commonly available.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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Received on Fri Mar 05 2010 - 16:13:39 EST