Hello,
Stephen Downes wrote:
> OAI repositories already expose their metadata through the widely known
> and widely used OAI Harvesting Protocol, and are registered on sites
> like OAIster. They might reasonably ask, why don't you simply harvest
> metadata from them using their existing protocol?
>
The SPP project's cross search makes use of metadata in OAI-able
repositories that have no Z39.50 interface by harvesting the metadata
and storing it in a local database that has a Z39.50 interface. I don't
know that the Z target of the harvested metadata can be made available
to third parties, other people on this list might know whether the
technology and harvesting agreements would cover that.
Phil
More on SPP at http://www.portal.ac.uk/spp/
An example of a cross search using the SPP portal software at
http://www.eevlxtra.ac.uk
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