Any technology has issues ... thats fact
If you render in XML you can do alot with it at display end in ours we will
be able to render it based on the character of a user ...
the point is the more avenues for adding. mining content the better
Heirport had just one avenue and has just basically drifted into dis-use
(which is a shame)
be flexible ... be light and open up the implementation and you have some
hope of getting a sustainable resource that people can add content
As with anything there are issues .. nothing is perfect
My worry is that this will base itself on one single model of technology
... i.e. much of the bigger organisation use oracle .. how many of us can
afford that kind of technology... and sometimes some platforms and
environments do not like to live together .. linking via a portal is the
right thing to do ... as long as the technology does not slow down the
server ... its a question of what is it doing and how?
My issue is of scalability... if its not scalable then it will just be a
wasted opportunity ...
This is the right thing to do ... but its just how its implemented ...
Heirport was a good proof of concept but nothing more ... it needs to be a
more flexible model than that. But from what i have heard and its not much
it is more flexible ... so there is some hope ... but its that 10% of not
knowing what its going to be and how its going to do it that worries me.
I do not see any issues with many avenues (websites to getting information)
.. i doubt we at DSH would ever advertise Heritage Gateway above our DSH
website as it just has more content across a wider grouping indeed we are
including geology and the natural sciences... I would be interested to see
the target audience of heritage gateway. But no doubt this will all become
clear to us in due course ... Portals are the way forward .. its just a
question of how they are developed.
Many thanks
Jason A. Siddall
Project and IT Leader
Discovering Shropshire's History - Learning from our Landscapes
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund
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Quick notes on OAI:
(1) Data providers need to have the resource network accessible, and you
will need to be able to render your data in (wait for it) XML for OAI
harvesting.
(2) OAI is another solution out of the library community (insert comment
here). It is largely a replacement for Z39.50. It defaults to Dublin
Core as standard, but can harvest XML in any schema, including MIDAS XML.
(3) Technically, it is a bit of a pig, but people tend to turn to it now
as the default aggregating technology, so it is widely used.
Tyler
Pratt, Nigel wrote:
> Jason/Sarah
> One quick (and probably stupid) question to the wider forum and
particularly EH, do we (as in the data holders) need to do anything to our
databases to enable this harvesting, or will the gateway do all the work?
> Nigel
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