[OAI-general] Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

[Thomas Krichel]

  Dirk Pieper writes

> Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (www.base-search.net) will stay
> free and independent. Our API can be used to integrate harvested and
> normalized content into other search services, maybe we should think
> about an OAI interface to the BASE index.

  I am not sure if an API is sufficent. I'd like to have a copy of the
  source data as well as of the data and scripts that are used to
  produce the output data. Anybody who will join my line of work 
  will get these via rsync.
 
> I still wonder, why there is no discussion about the "OCLC OAIster
> Terms and Conditions":
>
> https://www3.oclc.org/app/oaister/oaister_terms.htm

  There is discussion, not much on the American Scientist Open Access
  Forum. I am aware of

http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2009-September/thread.html
https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/

  but there may be others. 

  In general, an "OAI-PHM data users", polite for "OAI-PMH data
  exegetes" list is probably a good idea. I'd be happy to run it, but
  I don't want to be the only member. 

  

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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