[OAI-implementers] Question about sets

[Joe Futrelle]

It seems to me that the spec is ambiguous on this point; it says "set  
membership information," not "complete set membership information".  
Perhaps it should be amended?

On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Thomas G. Habing wrote:

> Agreed.  In our case, the harvested OAI records can eventually  
> become disassociated from the OAI request that was used to harvest  
> the record.  In other words, we won't know if a record resulted  
> from a harvest of a particular set or not, but we hope that we can  
> count on the setSpec in the header to identify to which sets a  
> particular record belongs, and we often do use this information to  
> control how we process records.
>
> Tom
>
> Simeon Warner wrote:
>> I think so too:
>> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm#Set
>> ...
>> When a repository defines a set organization it _must_ include set  
>> membership information in the headers of items returned in  
>> response to the ListIdentifiers , ListRecords and GetRecord requests.
>> ...
>> Cheers,
>> Simeon
>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Chris Wilper wrote:
>>> Hi Dean,
>>>
>>> I believe if sets are supported, the expectation is that the  
>>> response
>>> contains all relevent setSpec elements for each record.  So if an  
>>> item is a
>>> member of two sets, and a request specifies a specific set, the  
>>> returned
>>> record would still need to list both.  That's how I've always  
>>> interpreted it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org on behalf of  
>>> Cummins, Dean
>>> Sent: Sun 2/12/2006 10:15 PM
>>> To: oai-implementers at openarchives.org
>>> Subject: [OAI-implementers] Question about sets
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I wish to use sets (setspec etc), however is it mandatory to include
>>> this with all metadata elements, even if that page was called  
>>> with the
>>> setSpec tag? (thus it would be just informing the user about what it
>>> already knows - that the resource is part of a specific setSpec).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just after some clarification,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dean
>>>
>>>
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