[OAI-implementers] New registration page is now up
Stevan Harnad
harnad@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:43:01 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 lagoze@cs.cornell.edu wrote:
> 2. As stated at the top of http://www.openarchives.org/registration.htm,
> our intention is to "provide a publicaly accessible list of OAI
> conformant repositories" (data providers). Donna Bergmark has that on
> her list as soon as the registration software and conformance testing
> software is completed.
Please let us know the URL for the registry as soon as it is
established. In fact, I would suggest setting up now, out of the old
set of data-providers, specifying that these are not yet OAI 1.0-tested,
but shortly will be, and once shown to comply, will be upgraded to
registered status.
(I don't think it's as motivating to register if we cannot also point
to a registry.)
> 3. I tried to go to eprints.org to check out the 'links' that you are
> referring to but the site is down at the moment.
I don't think it's down (just tried it).
The code I've just ask Chris to change is in http://www.eprints.org/
Please change:
<P>The generic version of <B>eprints</B> is fully
<B>interoperable</B> with all other OAI-Compliant <A
HREF="http://www.openarchives.org/">Open Archives</A>. This means
that it no longer matters <I>where</I> papers are archived; the
papers in all OAI-compliant Archives can be harvested using the <A
href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.htm">OAI
protocol</A> into one global "virtual archive" by <A
HREF="http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_services.htm">Open
Archives Service Providers</A> such as the <A
HREF="http://arc.cs.odu.edu/">Cross Archive Searching
Service</A>.</P>
To:
<P>The generic version of <B>eprints</B> is fully
<B>interoperable</B> with all other OAI-Compliant <A
HREF="http://www.openarchives.org/">Open Archives</A>. This means
that it no longer matters <I>where</I> papers are archived. Archives
need only <A
href="http://www.openarchives.org/registration.htm">
register as OAI-compliant </A> in order to
be harvested using the <A
href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.htm">OAI
protocol</A> into global "virtual archives" by <A
HREF="http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_services.htm">Open
Archives Service Providers</A> such as the <A
HREF="http://arc.cs.odu.edu/">Cross Archive Searching
Service</A>.</P>
As you see, I still point to the old service-provider registry because
I think it is an important target to keep in mind. Any suggestions for
alternatives would be welcome!
> 4. By "go through registration again", I'm assuming you mean the need
> for sites that were listed as "Santa Fe registered" having to registered
> as "OAI data providers". Since these are indeed two different animals -
> the protocol is completely different - we do ask that anyone who
> supported Santa Fe and has now changed to the OAI protocol please go
> through the registration process. Since this involves but a handful of
> sites, we hope that this won't be too much of a problem.
Ok. I believe Chris Gutteridge is doing this right now. Again, it would
be a motivator to transfer the prior registry into a new registry as
something like "pending upgrade" so the registry is there, and
non-empty. It is then a traget to aim toward for others.
Cheers, Stevan
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> Let me know if you have any further questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:27 AM
> > To: lagoze@CS.Cornell.EDU
> > Cc: oai-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu
> > Subject: Re: [OAI-implementers] New registration page is now up
> >
> >
> > We will update the eprints.org information about sta/service provision
> > to reflect this. But will there be a site that lists the registered
> > data-providers and service-providers? (Right now the eprints.org links
> > to this are out of date, as the old registries are superseded. Can we
> > have new URLs for these two lists?)
> >
> > Second, are the current compliant data-providers (e.g. CogPrints)
> > being carried over into this new registry, or do they have to go
> > through the registration again?
> >
> >
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> > Stevan Harnad harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk
> > Professor of Cognitive Science harnad@princeton.edu
> > Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582
> > Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865
> > University of Southampton
> > http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/
> > Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/
> > SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 lagoze@cs.cornell.edu wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We've put up a new page at the OAI site that gives details on
> > > registering as a data provider. You can look at it at
> > > http://www.openarchives.org/registration.htm.
> > >
> > > Carl
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------
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