[OAI-implementers] set description

[Hussein Suleman]

following up on Kat's comment, and seeing that my personal website is on 
Xiaoming's listing ...

try
http://www.husseinsspace.com/cgi-bin/VTOAI/hspics/hspics/oai.pl?verb=ListSets

i have a description for each set in my source metadata so i encode that 
in a simple DC record with only a description tag. the idea being that 
set descriptions are meant to help people understand the contents of 
sets (for the purposes of selective harvesting) so any 
human-understandable information you can provide is useful while at the 
same time there is probably no point in automatically generating 
non-textual/descriptive fields such as date.

of course this is all arguable so feel free to vociferously disagree 
with me about the date or the human-understanding bits :)

ttfn,
----hussein


Xiaoming Liu wrote:
> With one small program to survey data providers in OAI website and UIUC
> registry, I am able to generate following baseURLs with set description.
> 
> http://129.252.51.52/OAI/WebOAI.aspx
> http://alcme.oclc.org/ndltd/servlet/OAIHandler
> http://csc000.cscaustria.at/oai/OAI.ASP
> http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/oai/
> http://cgi.vtt.fi/progs/inf/OAI
> http://dataprovider.ibict.br/mypoai/oai2.php
> http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/px/oai.asp
> http://hbllmedia.lib.byu.edu/test/PhpOai2/oai/oai2.php
> http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0
> http://oai.lib.duke.edu:8081/smc/servlet/OAIHandler
> http://oai.lib.msu.edu/oai/oai.cfm
> http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/OAI-PMH-server
> http://ibiblio.org/oaibiblio/data/software/app/oai2.php
> http://infsearch.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/oai.pl
> http://pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/oai/
> http://rea.uninet.edu/ojs/oai/
> http://publications.uu.se/portal/OAI
> http://services.nsdl.org:8080/nsdloai/OAI
> http://oai.ub.rub.de/oai/oai2.php
> http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/theses.woa/wa/oai
> http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ocs/oai/
> http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/oai/OAI2.0
> http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/aiwsc03/ocs/ocs/oai/
> http://www.entomotropica.org/ojs/oai/
> http://www.husseinsspace.com/cgi-bin/VTOAI/hspics/hspics/oai.pl
> http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/oai/
> http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/ECP/oai/
> http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/oai/
> http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/oai/oai.cgi
> 
> regards,
> Xiaoming
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Kat Hagedorn wrote:
> 
> 
>>Any further description of sets is useful for service providers. The
>>set name, being short, can't always completely describe the contents of
>>the set. More description helps us decide whether we want to harvest a
>>particular set.
>>
>>- Kat
>>
>>On Monday, Mar 8, 2004, at 13:42 America/Detroit, Caroline Arms wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The Library of Congress is providing set descriptions, see
>>>  http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListSets
>>>
>>>The descriptions use the oai_dc schema.  They are essentially
>>>collection-level records for the underlying collection of content
>>>EXCEPT
>>>that I use "Records for " at the beginning of the title.  When I
>>>wanted to
>>>do this, I could not find another pattern; you should not look at the
>>>practice you infer from them as authoritative in any way.
>>>
>>>I would be interested in knowing who (if anyone) is finding them
>>>useful.
>>>
>>>   Caroline Arms                                    caar@loc.gov
>>>   Office of Strategic Initiatives
>>>
>>>On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jody DeRidder wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is anyone out there using set descriptions (optional tag in header)?
>>>>   If so, would you please send us a link to your repository/service
>>>>provider so we could see it applied?
>>>>
>>>>   We'd be grateful...
>>>>
>>>>  --jody (for Anthony Smith)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>  Jody DeRidder
>>>>  IT Administrator II
>>>>  Digital Library Center
>>>>  648A John C. Hodges Library
>>>>  University of Tennessee
>>>>  Knoxville, TN 37996
>>>>
>>>>  Phone: (865) 974-4796
>>>>  Email: deridder@aztec.lib.utk.edu
>>>>
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>>-------------------
>>Kat Hagedorn
>>OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian
>>DLXS Bibliographic Class Coordinator
>>DLXS Text Class Co-coordinator
>>Digital Library Production Service
>>University of Michigan
>>
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>>http://www.dlxs.org/
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