Hi All,
And then of course there is IESR, whose main purpose is to support machine-to-machine access.
We now have some Use Cases and Scenarios available, which may be of interest to people thinking about m2m uses. http://iesr.ac.uk/use/use-cases/
So maybe people could also consider registering with IESR. And, echoing Les, "let a thousand diverse services bloom for a thousand different purposes".
Best wishes,
Ann
PS. Apologies to those who've seen the announcement of IESR Use Cases on other email lists.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:JISC-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:33 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [JISC-REPOSITORIES] [EP-tech] Please Register your IRs in ROAR
>
> On 20 Nov 2006, at 13:18, Ian Stuart wrote:
>
> > Does ROAR have a machine-usable API (like OpenDOAR)?
> Is the OpenDOAR API officially released yet? I can find no
> information about it apart from plans mentioned at
> http://www.opendoar.org/documents/beyond_the_list.html
>
> If you have any more information could you email the list?
>
> > Can it be queried to find repositories from a particular
> > institution (like OpenDOAR)?
> It has 'search' facilities, yes.
>
> > If not, *PLEASE* register with OpenDOAR (too) - it does, and can,
> > and there is a JISC project that does....
> In any case, please register with both and let a thousand diverse
> services bloom for a thousand different purposes! Although we are all
> supposed to live in a Service-Oriented world, there are remarkably
> few of them around! Hurrah for OpenDOAR and ROAR!
>
> One of OpenDOAR's principle aims is to provide an editorially
> mediated, quality assessed view of the repository landscape.
> By contrast, the ROAR aim is to provide a quantitative view of the
> general evolution of repositories and repository contents across the
> world, in order to help promote open access by identifying sucessful
> practices and policies.
>
> Hopefully other services will come along with slice and dice the
> repositories in many more different ways! Then we will worry about
> automatic repository discovery - a topic of some recent concern on
> the OAI technical list.
> --
> Les
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