[OAI-implementers] starting a service

[Ming Luo]

Hi:

If the collection is small and if you can format it into xml file
you can use Hussein's Open Digital Library components pretty esaliy


download xOAI-PMH2 XMLFile File-based Data Provider
at http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/index.html#software

IRDB at
http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/odl/#software

and sample user interface is at
http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/odl/software/compute_ui

a tutorial is available at
http://dlbox.nudl.org/pages/tutorial.html

Thanks,
Ming


Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been following this list with great interest for several months now.
> This week I signed up to help a local bookbinding organization with
> indexing their newsletter. The Newsletter (that's its title) has been running
> since 1983 and contains a lot of valuable articles to the bookbinding
> community. I've offered to put the current EndNote annotated
> bibliography/index online.
> 
> I think this is the sort of resource that should be searchable and
> findable by other people. The problem is, I'm not really sure where to
> start. The web programming bit is easy, I made a little "collaborative
> bibliography" for an organization last year. http://ftpd.maytree.com (I've
> learned much about programming since then!)
> 
> Could someone please point me towards articles/URLs/etc on how to make a
> metadata repository?
> 
> thank you,
> emma
>