[OAI-implementers] DIY OAI: Allowing anyone to be a data provider

[Gavin Baker]

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Hello list,

As someone relatively recently aware of OAI, I wondered if there'd been
any discussion of solutions to allow relatively normal people to be data
providers. Not to imply that the managers of university repositories are
abnormal, but the average Joe -- well, the average Dr. Joe who wants to
slap his latest article on his Web site and be "OAI-conformant"*.

I see there are a few OAI plugins for "normal person" CMSes:
WordPress: http://www.wallandbinkley.com/quaedam/?p=50
Drupal: http://drupal.org/project/oai2
Zope: http://www.pentila.com/produits/ZOpenArchives/

Another approach is copy & paste metadata. Creative Commons, for
instance, uses Dublin Core properties in its license metadata (e.g. in RDF):
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Implement_Metadata

Does anyone have thoughts on OAI for "normal people", e.g. desirability,
feasibility, implementations?

* For the sake of argument, Dr. Joe isn't archiving in his university's
institutional repository because it doesn't have one, there's not a
disciplinary repository in his field, etc.
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Gavin Baker
http://www.gavinbaker.com/
gavin at gavinbaker.com
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