Some issues which may need to be faced are detailed in a PerX report:
PerX Setup & Maintenance Issues:
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/setupmaintenance.htm
Extract: "The OAI-PMH Dublin Core approach, which is perhaps 'low
barrier' from the perspective of data providers, creates substantial
challenges from the perspective of service providers. The high level of
flexibility in both the OAI-PMH specification and Dublin Core combine to
create a series of obstacles for service providers which require
constant and ongoing consultation with data providers, difficulties in
successful automation of the harvesting process, and ultimately require
a high level of expert human intervention"
Roddy MacLeod
Heriot Watt University
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> Sent: 11 June 2007 11:22
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> Subject: Re: No Need for Canadian PubMed Central: CIHR Should
> Mandate IR Deposit
>
> Stevan,
>
> There is much sense in what you say, in so far as we clearly
> need a repository network architecture in order to underpin
> scalable and quality repository services right up to the
> global level. However glib statements such as 'the IRs are
> interoperable, because they are all compliant with the OAI
> metadata-harvesting protocol' are not helpful. All the
> statement means is that the IRs have technical
> interoperability as data and service providers (as we used to
> describe them). It does not mean that the metadata which is
> moved around by means of the harvesting protocol is
> interoperable in any meaningful sense. We need a repository
> network architecture capable of addressing the metadata
> issues, if we are to have useable global services.
>
> Best,
>
> Philip
>
> >
> > Researchers' own institutions (universities and research
> institutes)
> > are the primary providers of all research output. Those
> researchers,
> > their own institutions, and their funders, are the ones
> with the joint
> > stake in maximizing the visibility, uptake, usage and
> impact of their
> > joint research output. That is what the IRs are created
> for. The IRs
> > are interoperable with one another, because they are all compliant
> > with the OAI metadata-harvesting protocol. That means that their
> > contents -- which it would make no sense to search
> individually, IR by
> > IR -- can be harvested centrally, by search engines and
> meta-archives
> > that cover part or all of the distributed IRs' contents
> (i.e., all of
> > the world's refereed research journal article output).
> >
>
>
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> Philip Hunter
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