Interesting.
Yes, that is what OA and the OAI-PMH is for.
There are, I think, quite a few people around who have harvested via OAI-PMH.
(In fact, I used OAI-PMH to harvest all the metadata I could get my hands on for rkbexplorer.com a couple of years ago. But it proved such a pain I stopped bothering to keep it up to date!)
As far as registering is concerned, things get more interesting.
There are things like roar.eprints.org, which begs the question of why they need to ask institutions to register with them (and provide no more information than ROAR).
I assumed it is simply a marketing activity - if you can get IR owners to feel they have a stake, then they may be more willing to buy.
It has certainly raised awareness of a commercial activity by discussion on the list (:-)); that makes it slightly dodgy as a list posting, I would say - a simple announcement that was clearly an announcement about it would have seemed more appropriate.
The following may have bits wrong - if it has I am happy to be corrected.
I was also slightly puzzled, as the email did not say "metadata", it said "data".
So I assumed that they are harvesting the documents as well, and then adding more value.
But I think this is still within the intentions of OA.
Of course, they are not the only ones doing this.
For example, http://www.mendeley.com moved from asking people to provide data to harvesting it themselves quite a long time ago.
I think http://iamresearcher.com also does the same.
Now a little plug from me, although it is about a non-commercial facility, and only for the technical:
I harvest all the ePrints repositories I can manage to get via Linked Data, and put them in a public RDF triplestore.
It is kept pretty much up to date.
It is one of the feeds for the http://www.rkbexplorer.com/explorer and http://www.dotac.info/explorer/ systems.
But you can also do things like (picking a person completely at random):
[log in to unmask]&type=person-person&format=tsv" target="_blank">http://www.rkbexplorer.com/network/?uri=http:[log in to unmask]&type=person-person&format=tsv and even feed it into your web site.
As can be seen as the "Les works with:" on http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/lac
If anyone wants to be able to SPARQL query or whatever their eprints repository, or wants to use the Community of Practice service (or whatever), please contact me and I'll see how I can help.
Best
On 22 Feb 2013, at 10:14, Brian Kelly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I agree with Stuart. And this issue is particularly timely in light of yesterday's International Discovery Summary organised by the Jisc - see
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2013/02/discovery2013.aspx
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> In the opening plenary talk Maura Marx, Secretariat Director, Digital Public Library of America spoke about exploitation of metadata which was unencumbered by copyright restrictions. Although comments on the Twitter channel suggested that this wasn't applicable in EU countries, there was a view that use of licences such as CC0 would be appropriate to encourage metadata to be used by anyone, including commercial companies who may wish to exploit metadata for commercial purposes.
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> The use of non-discriminatory open approaches is not new - for example there are parallels with open source software and standards (e.g. Tim Berners-Lee ensured the Web was based on open standards which allowed Web services to be developed by anyone). But perhaps the implications of non-discriminatory open approaches in a library context do need to be discussed more widely.
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> Brian Kelly, UKOLN
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> On 22/02/2013 00:00, JISC-REPOSITORIES automatic digest system wrote:
>> On 21/02/2013 02:49, "Paul Royster" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Let me get this right: We furnish free metadata to ExLibris and they
>>> package it into a proprietary system for leasing to libraries?
>>>
>>> Paul Royster
>>> Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries
>>
>> Yes, that's right!
>>
>> Or, to phrase it differently, for zero cost, Ex Libris will expose your
>> scholarly content to hundreds of thousands of academic readers directly
>> through their local academic library discovery system!
>>
>> What's not to like? That's why we build systems like OAI-PMH and other
>> discovery / harvest mechanisms into our repositories so that we can
>> furnish free metadata to all. Discovery and re-use is good, be that via
>> commercial or free routes!
>>
>>
>> Stuart Lewis
>> Head of Digital Library Services
>> Library & Collections, Information Services
>> University of Edinburgh
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