[OAI-implementers] Comment in Identify

[Caroline Arms]

David,

I make use of the eprints schema to do this in <description>
for the lcoa1 data provider.

<description>
<eprints
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints.xsd">
<content>
	<URL>
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oamh/lcoa1_content.html
        </URL>
	<text>
Selected collections of digitized historical materials from the Library of
Congress, including many from American Memory.  Includes photographs,
movies, maps, pamphlets and printed ephemera, sheet music, and books.
       </text>
</content>
<metadataPolicy/>
<dataPolicy/>
</eprints>
</description>

Caroline Arms                               caar at loc.gov
Library of Congress

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Michael Nelson wrote:

> 
> David,
> 
> <description> is used to extend Identify responses.  <about> is used to
> describe individual metadata records (i.e., <about> describes the stuff
> inside <metadata>).
> 
> it sounds like you want to convey information about the repository as a
> whole.  if this is true, make a schema for what you would like to say and
> wrap your statements inside a <description> block inside an Identify
> response.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, David Loy wrote:
> 
> > I would like to add a message on our Identify response
> > that directs users (links) to our documentation for
> > special local features. Would this fall into an
> > existing <description> element or should we use
> > <about>
> >
> >
> > Any ideas would be great.
> >
> > Thanks
> > David Loy
> >
> >
> >
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