[OAI-implementers] encapsulated metadata and content

[Simeon Warner]

I considered a number of options that would allow export of full-content
from arXiv.org in a less home-brew fashion that we currently support. METS
looked like best option to me. I haven't got around to experimenting with
it yet though.

Exporting full-content via OAI-PMH is certainly an extension of OAI at a
philosophical level and deserves careful consideration. However, at a
practical level, OAI-PMH is a way to export Schema-described XML objects
with certain identifiers and relationships so METS-objects will work like
any other "lump of XML".

Cheers,
Simeon.


On Thu, 15 May 2003, Naomi Dushay wrote:
> There is an XML metadata format that strive to be a wrapper for complex
> digital objects that may contain content as well as metadata:
> 
> METS - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard  
> 
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
> 
> "The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative,
> and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library,
> expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web
> Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and
> MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed
> as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation."
> 
> 
> I believe METS could be used as a metadata format within OAI.
> 
> 
> Another thing to take a look at is the Fedora project:
> 
> http://www.fedora.info/index.shtml
> 
> "The new system demonstrates how distributed digital library
> architecture can be deployed using web-based technologies, including XML
> and Web services and is designed to be a foundation upon which
> interoperable web-based digital libraries can be built."
> 
> This isn't OAI, but is XML, web, WSDL, etc.
> 
> - Naomi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaun Osborne [mailto:smo30@cam.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 11:26 AM
> To: 'OAI-implementers'
> Subject: RE: [OAI-implementers] points to ponder
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Marks question seems to come up fairly often - i.e how do I encapsulate
> content with my metadata?
> 
> I have so far assumed that pointers (URLs probably) would be imbedded in
> the metadata and the harvesting system has to have a method (apart from
> OAI) to simply pickup all the referenced files by the pointers in the
> metadata.
> 
> We are moving forward with our OAI efforts and will probably need images
> to be able to 'harvested' (at a minimum a thumbnail probably).
> 
> Any list users have experience with this generally? or in the museum
> context explicity?
> 
> Shaun Osborne
> 
> http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/htf   (Harvesting the Fitzwilliam
> Project)
> 
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