Book People Archive

RE: Re: Open Archives Initiative

I looked into providing this for the CCEL, but I decided I
didn't need another programming project. I think two things
are needed before this will really take off:

- an easy way to go "on-line".  I'm willing to write a perl
program to generate the right sort of metadata records from
the database, but one-click installation of a server would
be great.

- how about a sample client that allows you to browse the
archives running the OAI protocol, searching by creator, title,
etc?  Maybe search all the OAI archives at once.

Or are these things already available?

-harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Mark Ockerbloom [mailto:ockerblo@[redacted]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:57 AM
> To: dean@[redacted]
> Cc: spok+bookpeople@[redacted]
> Subject: [BP] Re: Open Archives Initiative
>
>
> dean@[redacted] wrote:
> > As for the "librarian/bookfinder like napster", I'd recommend that
> > anyone on this list who runs a significant repository take a good look
> > at the Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org). It's not,
> > strictly speaking, peer-to-peer, but it is a protocol that you could
> > certainly build a "distributed book search" capability on top of. All we
> > need is for all the repositories to implement the protocol on top of
> > their metadata databases and then register.
>
> Let me re-echo Dean Krafft's recommendation of the Open Archives
> Initiative,
> particularly for larger, established repositories.
>
> If any maintainers of on-line book archives are interested in participating
> in the Open Archives Initiative, I'll be happy to answer questions
> about what's involved.  There's still a fair bit of coding and setup
> that one needs to do to participate, so it may be more work than
> smaller projects have the time for, but I hope that as the
> initiative progresses there will be more software tools available
> to make participation easier.
>
> John