On 12 May 2008, at 22:24, Jewel Ward wrote:
>>> do i think the OAI-PMH framework or was dead?
>> I wonder whether the question should be "Is OAI-PMH dead, or still
>> undergoing a very protracted labour?". OAI doesn't deliver metadata
>> magically (unless the metadata already exists, in which case it
>> certainly can't be blamed for any deficiencies!) and repositories
>> are still getting to grips with issues about metadata - what
>> metadata to collect, how to use it for in-house reports, how to
>> display it on repository pages etc. 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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Les
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