[OAI-implementers] Queries and OAI

2002年2月13日 12:26:53 -0500 (EST)

Hi,
There are some similar efforts by Martin Vesely in CERN, it's discussed in 
http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2002-January/000128.html
http://documents.cern.ch/ettdh/doc/public/OAIRSF.html 
Regards,
liu
On 2002年2月13日, Michael L. Nelson wrote:
>> Hussein Suleman monitors this group, and its his research that the
> article discusses
> (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december01/suleman/12suleman.html), but I'll
> offer this response until he weighs in.
>> the example cited is most definitely an "extension" to OAI, and not part
> of the core protocol. in fact, OAI is designed to *not* be a distributed
> search protocol, but with the wiggle room available in sets, you can make
> it behave like a distributed search protocol (among other things) if you
> really, really want.
>> what you should take home from your reading of their paper is that
> communities can agree on many conventions within the OAI protocol
> constructs that can result in extensions of functionality (without
> breaking the SPs and DPs that are unaware of the extensions).
>> in addition to exploiting community standards in sets & metadata formats,
> you can also imagine "reserved" ids for special records, conventions for
> populating namespaces in ids, mirrors & aggregators, even conventions for
> different OAI interfaces (e.g., biology.org/x/oai/ implies the existence
> of biology.org/y/oai/), etc.
>> Hussein's paper describes some conventions that will be presumbably used
> in the ETD project. See also the linguistics community use of OAI in
> larger framework of metadata interchange:
>> http://www.language-archives.org/docs.html
>> regards,
>> Michael
>> On 2002年2月13日, Alan Kent wrote:
>> > Hi. I was just reading through a DLib magazine article (Dec 2001), and
> > noticed an article talking about OAI and using set id's to put queries into.
> > The example was verb=ListIdentifiers&set=odlsearch1/computer%20science/1/10
> > 
> > Is there any general work being done on such things? Or is this just an
> > individual group's idea as to one way to do things?
> > 
> > I was just wondering what the intended scope of OAI was - just metadata
> > harvesting, or branching out into other areas such as searching too.
> > 
> > Alan
> > _______________________________________________
> > OAI-implementers mailing list
> > OAI-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu
> > http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/oai-implementers
> > 
>> ---
> Michael L. Nelson
> NASA Langley Research Center		m.l.nelson@larc.nasa.gov
> MS 158, Hampton, VA 23681		http://www.ils.unc.edu/~mln/
> +1 757 864 8511				+1 757 864 8342 (f)
>>> _______________________________________________
> OAI-implementers mailing list
> OAI-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu
> http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/oai-implementers
>