[UPS] Re: OA Dienst at arXiv

[herbert van de sompel]

wow, that is really great.  I hope Carl can spend some time looking into
it.  Would it be OK to announce the fact that arXiv is compliant with
the SF Convention in the upcoming D-Lib paper, to be released Feb 15th?

greetings

herbert

Simeon Warner wrote:
> 
> Carl, David, Thomas, Herbert (and CC: UPS),
> 
> We now have a subset implementation of Dienst5 running at arxiv.org.
> It is currently running as /dienst/ and the old (v4) server is
> running as /Dienst/. We will switch the URLs as soon as is convenient
> for the Cornell/NCSTRL team (please tell me, note that our identifiers
> now start `arXiv:', not `xxx:').
> 
> Please check it out and tell me about the bugs!
> 
> --
> Simeon.
> 
> Details
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> 
> I have worked from the `Version 0.3 2000-01-20 06:54:24 -0500' version of
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cdlrg/dienst/protocols/OpenArchivesDienst.htm
> Below are comments and example URLs relating to sections of the spec.,
> and for each of the OA subset verbs.
> 
> sec2.1
>   "For example, the unique archive identifier handlecorp can be
>   combined with the unique record identifier 11223 and separated
>   with the / (slash) character to form the full identifier
>   handlecorp/11223.   The full identifier is then used and returned
>   by Dienst requests."
> 
> As noted in an earlier email, working with CGI scripts the encoded
> / in the URL is not preserved when PATH_INFO is passed to the
> script. Thus, in places where `fullId' (or is it `fullID'?) are passed
> as a fixed arg I treat it as two fixed args: `archive' and `papernum'
> which I recombine with /.
> 
> sec2.2.1
> 
> If I read this correctly, a partitionspec may specify only one
> partition, there is no facility for a list of partitions. It may,
> however, specify any level of sub-partition. arXiv has just two
> levels of partitioning which gives two choices for the form of a
> partitionspec:
> 
> 1) top level, eg. `physics' or `math'
> 2) two level, eg. `physics;hep-th' or `math;GM'
>    where List-Partitions gives:
>       physics
>         hep-th
>         ...
>       math
>         GM
>         ...
>       ...
> 
> 
> sec2.3
> 
> My current implementation returns an error if the version is not an
> exact match to that implemented.
> 
> Disseminate
> 
> I have used the reply format shown in the Dienst spec and not in the
> oams spec. I'd like guidance as to what the current `correct' version
> is. It seems to me that avoiding all the `oams:' prefixes to the
> tags is cleaner but I am not an XML expert.
> 
> I have used `oams' not `OAMS'. I don't really care which it is but
> I do think it should be consistent throughout: if the XML reply
> contains tags like <oams...> then the name should be `oams'.
> 
> eg.
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/1.0/Disseminate/arXiv:hep-th/9901001/%23oams/xml
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/1.0/Disseminate/arXiv:math/9901001/%23oams/xml
> 
> I have also copied the oams format to write XML replies for `rfc1807'
> and `arXiv' meta-formats.
> 
> eg.
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/1.0/Disseminate/arXiv:hep-th/9901001/%23rfc1807/xml
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/1.0/Disseminate/arXiv:hep-th/9901001/%23arXiv/xml
> 
> There is still work to be done on better parsing of the author/affiliation data.
> 
> List-Contents
> 
> I'm not really sure what we should do about such things as a request for
> all the identifiers/metadata of the archive, eg:
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/4.0/List-Contents
> At the moment there is a limit of 10000 hits; a malformed request error
> is returned if that is exceeded:
>   `Malformed request. Too many hits, limit is 10000.'
> 
> Following the spec, I use the following arguments:
>   Keyword args: partitionspec, file-after, meta-format
> Should it actually be `partition' not `partitionspec'?
> 
> eg.
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/4.0/List-Contents?file-after=2000-01-01
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/4.0/List-Contents?partitionspec=math&file-after=2000-01-01
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/4.0/List-Contents?partitionspec=math&file-after=2000-01-01&meta-format=oams
> 
> I think there are some problems with subpartitions.
> 
> List-Meta-Formats
> 
> eg.
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/1.0/List-Meta-Formats
> 
> List-Partitions
> 
> eg.
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/2.0/List-Partitions
> 
> Structure
> 
> All formats avaiable for all archives so I simply check that the record
> exists and return the complete list of formats.
> 
> eg.
>   http://arXiv.org/dienst/Repository/1.0/Structure/arXiv:hep-th/9701001?view=%23