[OAI-implementers] OAI and Z39.50 or SRU

[Leslie Johnston]

At 05:09 AM 5/22/2007, Rob Tice wrote:
>Hi Leslie
>
>There have been several replies to your initial posting all of which have a
>slightly different take on your requirements.
>
>Just for clarification.
>
>Are you looking to take an OAI feed and make its contents additionally
>available as a Z39.50/SRW/SRU target using the OAI feed itself to populate
>the Z39.50 system?

Yes, this is precisely what I am interested in doing.  I have an OAI 
data provider already that exposes oai-dc records (with MODS 
planned), and I would like to potentially use this data to 
additionally populate a Z39.50 system or gateway.

It seemed worth researching, but it's not looking like there are any 
tools to do this, at least not anything near production-ready.


>Or are you looking to modify the underlying OAI database (data source) to
>support Z39.50/SRW/SRU?

No, I definitely do not want to do that.  My data source is XML, 
programmatically generated from many different originating source 
metadata formats.


>Cheers
>
>Rob
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org [mailto:oai-implementers-
> > bounces at openarchives.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Johnston
> > Sent: 21 May 2007 16:50
> > To: Steven Bird; oai-implementers at openarchives.org
> > Subject: [OAI-implementers] OAI and Z39.50 or SRU
> >
> > I am now considering this same topic that was raised on this list a
> > year ago.  I'm not looking to make a Z39.50 resource available as
> > OAI, I'm wondering if I can additionally expose an existing OAI data
> > provider using Z39.50 or SRU.  It's one of many ideas we're bouncing
> > around for setting up a metasearch target for a particular collection.
> >
> > At 05:21 PM 5/27/2006, Steven Bird wrote:
> > >The LOC Z39.50 site [1] lists an OAI/Z39.50 gateway, and links to [2]
> > >(dated March 2003).  However, this latter site doesn't seem to exist
> > >any more.  Can anyone tell me if there is an OAI gateway to Z39.50, or
> > >better still, an aggregation service over libraries [3] that exposes
> > >oai_dc records?  I'm aware of WorldCat, but it looks like there's only
> > >a one-directional flow of information from OAI to WorldCat.  Thanks
> > >for any advice.
> > >
> > >[1] http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/profiles/profiles.html
> > >[2] http://frasier.library.uiuc.edu/research.htm
> > >[3] http://www.loc.gov/z3950/
> > >
> > >-Steven Bird
> > >
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> > University of Virginia Library
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Leslie Johnston
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University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
johnston at virginia.edu