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Probably another slight aside, if your data is in a relational database check out http://sql.z3950.org/ Z targets made easy! Regards Steve Howard Noble wrote: >As a slight aside, why might an OAI repository object to opening a public >z39.50 or SRW interface? > >Stephen - was anything written up on the experiences in Canada? > >Howard > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Phil Barker" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:31 AM >Subject: Re: registries of repositories > > > > >>Hello, >> >>Stephen Downes wrote: >> >> >>>OAI repositories already expose their metadata through the widely known >>>and widely used OAI Harvesting Protocol, and are registered on sites >>>like OAIster. They might reasonably ask, why don't you simply harvest >>>metadata from them using their existing protocol? >>> >>> >>> >>The SPP project's cross search makes use of metadata in OAI-able >>repositories that have no Z39.50 interface by harvesting the metadata >>and storing it in a local database that has a Z39.50 interface. I don't >>know that the Z target of the harvested metadata can be made available >>to third parties, other people on this list might know whether the >>technology and harvesting agreements would cover that. >> >>Phil >> >> >>More on SPP at http://www.portal.ac.uk/spp/ >>An example of a cross search using the SPP portal software at >>http://www.eevlxtra.ac.uk >> >>-- >>Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser >> ICBL, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences >> Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt University, >> Edinburgh, EH14 4AS >> Tel: 0131 451 3278 Fax: 0131 451 3327 >> Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/ >> >> >> >> > > > -- ************************************************************************ One should not worship machines any longer or use them as workmen. One should collaborate with them. Jean Cocteau 1929 Life is a horizontal fall. Jean Cocteau Steve Richardson ProFaNE Internet Systems Developer School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting, Coupland III, University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Great Britain Tel: +44161 275 8226 Mob: +447866 566 834