[OAI-implementers] Queries and OAI

[Xiaoming Liu]

Hi,

There are some similar efforts by Martin Vesely in CERN, it's discussed in 

http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2002-January/000128.html
http://documents.cern.ch/ettdh/doc/public/OAIRSF.html 

Regards,
liu


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Michael L. Nelson wrote:

> 
> Hussein Suleman monitors this group, and its his research that the
> article discusses
> (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december01/suleman/12suleman.html), but I'll
> offer this response until he weighs in.
> 
> the example cited is most definitely an "extension" to OAI, and not part
> of the core protocol.  in fact, OAI is designed to *not* be a distributed
> search protocol, but with the wiggle room available in sets, you can make
> it behave like a distributed search protocol (among other things) if you
> really, really want.
> 
> what you should take home from your reading of their paper is that
> communities can agree on many conventions within the OAI protocol
> constructs that can result in extensions of functionality (without
> breaking the SPs and DPs that are unaware of the extensions).
> 
> in addition to exploiting community standards in sets & metadata formats,
> you can also imagine "reserved" ids for special records, conventions for
> populating namespaces in ids, mirrors & aggregators, even conventions for
> different OAI interfaces (e.g., biology.org/x/oai/ implies the existence
> of biology.org/y/oai/), etc.
> 
> Hussein's paper describes some conventions that will be presumbably used
> in the ETD project.  See also the linguistics community use of OAI in
> larger framework of metadata interchange:
> 
> http://www.language-archives.org/docs.html
> 
> regards,
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Alan Kent wrote:
> 
> > Hi. I was just reading through a DLib magazine article (Dec 2001), and
> > noticed an article talking about OAI and using set id's to put queries into.
> > The example was verb=ListIdentifiers&set=odlsearch1/computer%20science/1/10
> > 
> > Is there any general work being done on such things? Or is this just an
> > individual group's idea as to one way to do things?
> > 
> > I was just wondering what the intended scope of OAI was - just metadata
> > harvesting, or branching out into other areas such as searching too.
> > 
> > Alan
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