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<p class="MsoNormal"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hello,</font></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">As far as I
understand the OAI protocol, I would rather say that DateStamp is about
the
last time that your record has been updated (which then must reflect
"create",
"update" or "delete"). <o:p></o:p></span></font></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">When you
will first register your archive into a Harvester, I guess the
harvester will first get
all records available. To do so, it will query your archive without the
"from"
and "to" parameter. <o:p></o:p></span></font></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Then, most
of harvesters will run regularly some incremental harvesting to get the
records
modified, deleted or added since the previous harvest. To do so they
will run
the query with the "from" parameter.<o:p></o:p></span></font></small></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Kind
regards,</span></font></small><br>
<span style="" lang="EN-GB"><small><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fred</font></small><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<br>
<br>
Lisa M. Brooks a écrit :
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cite="mid:48ece0fc0804101528j672cdfb8m70a10d3eba6fe1e4@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hello - We're very close to launching our data provider.
Before we do I have a question about date-stamps.<br>
<br>
I understand that the "from" and "until" dates used to request metadata
records refer to the date that the metadata record was created. We are
an archive of research works that date back to the 1980s (we will
definitely get even older works into our archive as we move forward).
To my mind it would be more helpful to folks if our record date-stamps
reflect the date the research work in question was first published.<br>
<br>
My concern is that we introduce our repository and harvesters don't get
the gist of the temporal scope of our collection because everything is
date-stamped en masse with the date that we generate our metadata
records (which, with luck, will be this Saturday).<br>
<br>
I hope I'm making sense! Just want to know if this is a big no-no, or
if there are things to consider before doing something like this.
Appreciate the insight of list participants.<br>
<br>
Thanks for reading -<br>
~Lisa<br>
<br>
Lisa M. Brooks<br>
IssueLab - bringing nonprofit research into focus<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lisa@issuelab.org">lisa@issuelab.org</a><br>
773-649-1790<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.issuelab.org">http://www.issuelab.org</a><br>
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