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.
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Les
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