I just saw that Open Knowledge Foundation has started a new working group on
open bibliographic data that may be of interest to those on this thread.
http://blog.okfn.org/2010/03/03/new-working-group-on-open-bibliographic-data/
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_openlib.org> wrote:
> 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 Sun Mar 07 2010 - 10:02:40 EST