[OAI-implementers] repository auto-discovery

Sun Nov 19 12:31:26 EST 2006

Robert Forkel wrote:
>> On 11/19/06, *Herbert Van de Sompel* <herbertv at lanl.gov 
> <mailto:herbertv at lanl.gov>> wrote:
>> (2) A facet of the problem domain that unAPI covers has been explored in
> other contexts. A generic formulation of that problem could be (if I
> dare) "How to obtain (in an interoperable manner) a manifest of all
> available Representations of a Resource" (to use W3C Web architecture
> language). 
>>> well, i'm aiming at something much lower ...

Yes, I understand that now and my apologies for my unwieldy response 
that put the issue in a broader perspective.
If I am not mistaken, I think a major immediate aim that you have is to 
make your journal article metadata Zotero-extractable from your HTML 
pages. In this case you might want to check out the COinS work 
<http://ocoins.info/>, by some of the same people who did unAPI. If I 
am not mistaken Zotero eats COinS. The COinS stuff also integrates 
nicely with browser plug-ins to point to OpenURL Resolvers.
cheers
herbert
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