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RE: Re: Open Archives Initiative

I'm not aware of a current "Search all the Registered Repositories"
client - but I've sent off a note to ask the people here (Carl Lagoze
and Herbert Van de Sompel) who would know for sure.

On the "getting on-line" side, John (who has actually done it for the
Celebration of Women Writers repository) may be able to give you a
better answer, but my impression is that it's best done by integration
with your own metadata database. There is an OAI Front End in PERL
available from http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/oai/frontend.html. I
haven't looked at it enough to say how easy it would be to use this to
build a server. I suppose that an alternative would be to provide a
"click-to-install" server that ran off a standard metadata database, and
then leave the user to implement something that dumps their current
information into the standard format. Any thoughts on which is better?

-- Dean

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Plantinga [mailto:hplantin@[redacted]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:27 PM
To: dean@[redacted]
Cc: spok+bookpeople@[redacted]
Subject: RE: [BP] 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