[OAI-implementers] OAI 2.0 versus 1.0/1.1 handling

[Xiaoming Liu]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Alan Kent wrote:

> 
> I am tossing up in my mind whether its worth the effort of continuing
> to support 1.0 and 1.1 by copying down required namespace declarations
> from above etc. I can do it, its just messy. How important do people
> think continued support for 1.0/1.1 is I wonder? How long before everyone
> upgrades?


I guess one way is to use the Celestial (oaia) implemented by Tim Brody.

http://celestial.eprints.org

It harvests 1.x data providers, caches the data, and exposes them in
2.0's way.

So 2.0 applications can use Celestial to harvest 1.x compliant data
providers.

regards,
liu


> 
> Opinions welcome!
> 
> Alan
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