[OAI-implementers] Beginners question

[Young,Jeff]

If you're interested in a Java Servlet solution, I just added a beta JDBC
implementation to OAICat
(http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/cat.shtm). 

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heinrich Stamerjohanns [mailto:stamer@uni-oldenburg.de]
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:28 AM
> To: John W. Horlock
> Cc: oai-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [OAI-implementers] Beginners question
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, John W. Horlock wrote:
> 
> If you already have a SQL table with your data and metadata in your
> personal format, you might as well just create a function 
> that maps the
> data in your personal format to Dublin Core (at least).
> 
> You can then create the necessary XML out of your metadata on-the-fly
> (as you create your HTML out of your SQL).
> For the Data Provider there is no need to store the data in 
> XML format.
> 
> You can find a sample implementation in PHP (which also runs under
> Windows) at http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/ which does 
> exactly that
> (fetch SQL, map it, create XML).
> 
> All you need to do is to adjust the mappings from your personal data
> to DC. If you prefer ASP, it should be quite easy to make ASP code
> out of this.
> 
> Heinrich
> 
> 
> > I have just started to look in making my databases OAI compliant.
> > I am currently running an image search engine which users 
> use to search for
> > images and return results via a web page. All the pages are 
> ASP with VBScript
> > and JavaScript.
> > The data is contained within a table in SQL server. What I 
> am confused about
> > is, the table I am going to create for the metadata is 
> going to contain
> > duplicate data e.g. contributor, date added etc... as these 
> are all required
> > to be displayed to user upon a search request.
> >
> > My basic understanding (which I think is wrong at the 
> moment) is I'll have my
> > main table which houses all the data, then a smaller table 
> which contains
> > metadata about each record, which is in a valid XML format.
> > Are there any other factors which I need to be aware of for 
> my databases?
> >
> > I'm trying to comprehend the workings but it's not very clear.
> >
> > Thank you for you help.
> > John
> >
> >
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