as someone said to me recently: "people tend to forget that OAI-PMH
made a whole lot of sense 10 years ago (when RSS was limited to
showing only *15* items). obviously, times have changed and allowed
the simpler approaches to be feasible. but in the late 90s, they
weren't feasible for repo-level solutions."
i blow hot and cold about the Semantic Web a/k/a "Linked Data", for
reasons others (like David and Peter) have so eloquently stated. i am
inclined to believe from a practical level that a grassroots approach
will spread more quickly than anything blessed, anointed and passed
down from on high, at this point in Internet use.
On May 13, 2008, at 12:51 AM, Les Carr wrote:
>>> What OAI has done is to put metadata on the agenda for a wider
>>> range of users, but "How To Share It WIth Others" has become a non-
>>> issue when Google does all our heavy lifting.
>> or, possibly, because of the work w/Linked Data? http://linkeddata.org/
>
> Linked Data is another name for the Semantic Web, and we were
> celebrating its 10-year anniversary at the WWW conference in 2006.
> So that has been getting off the ground since 1986, three years
> before OAI-PMH!
>
> Frankly, I blow hot and cold about OAI-PMH, but I do want to defend
> open metadata!
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Jewel Ward, Ph.D. Student
The School of Information and Library Science
Univ of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
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