Hmmm... interesting. My (admittedly very light) reading of that stuff
is that it starts from the position that the OAI-PMH doesn't fit the Web
Architecture and that to do something about it you have to retro-fit an
RDF model on to it and then build a "gateway" that sits in-front of the
protocol. Hardly an optimal position... but I must admit I need to read
stuff in more detail to comment properly.
Andy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jewel Ward [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 02 May 2008 16:29
> To: Andy Powell
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Google, OAI and the IRs
>
> >
> > On May 2, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Andy Powell wrote:
> >> ...
> >>
> >> It highlights the fact that OAI will never be a mainstream Web
> >> protocol, but so what... I think we spotted that anyway!
> >>
> i wouldn't be so sure. check out the links below. :-)
>
> >> There are technical reasons why OAI was always going to
> struggle (I
> >> say that only with the benefit of hindsight) because of
> its poor fit
> >> with the Web Architecture. Whilst I don't suppose that directly
> >> factored into Google's thinking in any sense, I think it is worth
> >> remembering.
> >>
>
>
> (yes, Andy, I openly admit to my biases!)
>
> this was posted yesterday by Herbert Van de Somple on OAI-
> Implementers. the links are worth checking out, for those of
> you interested in the contents of this thread.
> *****
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:00:11 -0600
> From: Herbert Van de Sompel <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [OAI-implementers] OAI2LOD
> To: OAI-implementers <[log in to unmask]>
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> hi all,
>
> I felt like drawing you attention to an OAI-PMH tool that has
> been created by the Linked Data community:
>
> (*) The OAI2LOD server is described and available at:
> http://www.mediaspaces.info/tools/oai2lod/
>
> (*) A paper was presented at the recent WWW Conference Linked Data
> Workshop:
> http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/papers/03-haslhofer-schandl-
> oai2lod-server.pdf
>
> (*) And Tim Berners Lee took quite some interest in this
> development, as can be seen from:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008Apr/0183.html
>
> Thanks to Chris Bizer for the pointers.
>
> cheers
>
> Herbert
> ****
>
> also check out further comments (see: 27 April 2008) at:
> http:// lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008Apr/
>
> Regards,
>
> Jewel
>
>
> ..
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