[OAI-implementers] Searching open archives

[Young,Jeff]

I neglected to reply to the other subjects in Howard's message. 

The ERRoL service is an open-source OAI identifier resolver. A demo is
available at http://errol.oclc.org/. One of the features of the ERRoL
resolver is OpenURL access to content and services related to OAI
repositories, including links to the content being described in the oai_dc
metadata records.

Going back to the idea of providing OAI access to SRW-accessible data,
OAICat (http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/cat.htm) has an
implementation to do just that from a local server (as opposed to the
gateway service provided by the SRW Registry I mentioned before). Contact me
for details.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey A. Young [mailto:jyoung1 at columbus.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:02 PM
> To: 'Howard Noble'; 'Baden Hughes'
> Cc: 'Boon Low'; oai-implementers at openarchives.org; 'Matthew J. Dovey';
> 'Colin Tatham'
> Subject: RE: [OAI-implementers] Searching open archives
> 
> Hi Howard,
> 
> I have several SRW/U servers available (e.g.
> http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/GSAFD). I then added these to an SRW
> Registry at http://errol.oclc.org/srwRegistry.oclc.org.html. One of the
> features of this registry is that it provides OAI gateway access to any
> registered SRW service that conforms to a minimal profile (e.g.
> http://errol.oclc.org/srwRegistry.oclc.org/gsafd.alcme.oclc.org.oaigateway
> ?v
> erb=Identify).
> 
> This minimal profile consists of an oai.identifier and oai.datestamp index
> and an OAIHeader metadata format. Review the GSAFD SRW repository
> mentioned
> above for details.
> 
> Let me know if you have questions.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org [mailto:oai-
> implementers-
> > bounces at openarchives.org] On Behalf Of Howard Noble
> > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:55 AM
> > To: Baden Hughes
> > Cc: Boon Low; oai-implementers at openarchives.org; Matthew J. Dovey; Colin
> > Tatham
> > Subject: Re: [OAI-implementers] Searching open archives
> >
> > Thank you Owen, Baden and Pete for your responses.
> >
> > My question stems from me being involved in a project that is creating
> an
> > open source and free distributed search tool (- JAFER:
> > http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/jafer/.
> > ) that implements a JSP interface for executing Z39.50 and SRW over
> > repositories.
> >
> > JAFER also provides software that can be 'put infront of a repository'
> to
> > translate the interoperable network query into the native DB query
> > language
> > (e.g. SQL).
> >
> > The interface is designed to search and select resources returned by the
> > search and then create a resource list compliant with the new IMS
> Resource
> > List Interoperability Specification (http://www.imsglobal.org/rli/).
> >
> > I am trying to work out the practicalities of setting up SRW, OAI and
> > OpenURL together:
> >
> > http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/short-topics.html#oai
> >
> > So what I need is an OAI repository that implements SRW and a openURL
> > resolver than can be configured with a 'Link-To syntax to OAI
> > repositories.
> >
> > 1. Does anyone know of an OAI repository that does SRW?
> >
> > 2. Are there OAI repositories that implement 'deep linking' - hyperlink
> to
> > the full text for example, based on a simple link-to syntax?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Howard
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Baden Hughes" <badenh at cs.mu.OZ.AU>
> > To: "Howard Noble" <howard.noble at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
> > Cc: <oai-implementers at openarchives.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 5:58 AM
> > Subject: Re: [OAI-implementers] Searching open archives
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Howard
> > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me if there is a recommended means for searching an
> > OAI
> > repository? Z3.50, SRW...?
> > >
> > > There's many ways to do this, but AFAIK, not a single recommended
> > > approach. Certainly the collections aggregated by OAI-PMH can be
> > expressed
> > > in a range of alternative formats which lend themselves to existing
> > tools
> > > eg Z39.50.
> > >
> > > > How are most repositories cross-searched?
> > >
> > > From an end user view there's really 4 models:
> > >
> > > 1) individual data providers who also provide a search interface
> > directly
> >
> > > to their own collections, many of which are embedded with archive
> > > management suites;
> > >
> > > 2) there's a range of aggregation tools which offer search interfaces
> > > across all OAI data providers eg ARC, MyOAI, OAIster via web
> interfaces
> > > for each tool;
> > >
> > > 3) via an application instance, where the application itself is OAI-
> > aware
> > > and connects either to a local collection or an online aggregator;
> > >
> > > 4) through interfaces like DP9 automated services like web search
> > engines
> > > can also index the contents, allowing users to search "on the web" and
> > find OAI data provider
> > > contents.
> > >
> > > If you consider the list at
> > http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools.html,
> > > you'll see a range of these different tools available.
> > >
> > > > Also are most repositories open to searching (by users, not
> > harvesting)
> > or do they require authentication?
> > >
> > > Most are open access, ipso facto. I presume that there are some
> > > repositories which have access restrictions in various forms, but I
> > > haven't gone looking specifically.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Baden
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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