Hi,
For more on using OAI-PMH for harvesting IMS/LOM metadata see also
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/powell/.
The OAI Repository Explorer
(http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/Explorer/oai2.0/testoai) is a great way
to test any repositories you find out about.
The two JORUM (http://www.jorum.ac.uk) research repositories (Xtensis
and intraLibrary) have supported the harvesting of IMS and DC metadata
for while now. The JORUM team can supply details of how to harvest
metadata from these.
Martin
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> Hi Fred,
>
>> With all this talk of LOMs, interoperability, and XML, I'm
>> wondering if there are any practical examples of repositories
>> making their learning object metadata available to the wide world
>> in machine-readable format, presumably as XML files? I ask because
>> I'm putting together a simple RLO 'repository' (well, database
>> really) and would like to pull in titles at such repositories as
>> MERLOT and the Wisconsin Online Resource Center. I'm a little out
>> of my depth here as my XML expertise is at beginner level right
>> now, but I'm guessing that I should be able to write, say, PHP
>> scripts to parse XML files conforming to a LOM so that the LO
>> titles and metadata appear in the database. Similarly, I'd like to
>> write scripts to expose our RLOs
>> (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlo> s/) to the world.
>>
>> However, whilst I know of a few repositories, I don't see any
>> 'interfaces' that can be hooked into on their sites. Is anyone here
>> involved in practical projects linking repositories into
>> distributed LO databases?
>
> You might be interested in the article by Andy and Phil which
> provides an overview of how LOM metadata is being shared within the
> RDN and LTSN, using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
> Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
>
> http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/powell/
>
> Others closer to that particular coal face are in a much better
> position than me to comment further, but you can see a response to an
> OAI-PMH "GetRecord" request containing a LOM XML record at e.g.
>
> http://www.ltsn-01.ac.uk/static/oai/oai2.php?verb=GetRecord&metadataPref
> ix=lom&identifier=oai:ltsn-01.ac.uk:1
>
> Pete
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