OCLC also has an SRW/SRU enabled repository at
http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/SOAR
Matthew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
> Sent: 08 September 2004 13:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Repository exposure
>
> 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/rlos/) 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?
>
> Cheers
>
> Fred
>
> Fred Riley
> Learning Technologist
> Room C57, School of Nursing
> University of Nottingham
> Queen's Medical Centre
> Nottingham NG7 2HA
>
> Tel: +44 (0)115 92 49924 ext 37180
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/staff/support-staff/fred_r
> iley.html
>
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