Book People Archive

RE: Re: Open Archives Initiative

There is a (reasonably) complete and capable search engine for searching
all the OAI registered site metadata. It's the "Cross Archive Searching
Service" at Old Dominion University available at

http://arc.cs.odu.edu/

I strongly suspect that there will be other OAI search engines available
soon. I'll try to get more information from the OAI people at Cornell
once they are back in town.

-- 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

[Moderator: I've been getting server errors just now when trying
 the ODU site, but maybe others will have better luck (or the bug
 will be fixed) - JMO]