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On 15 Feb 2008, at 10:23, Ian Rowson wrote:
>>> It's worth pointing out that several other collections databases
> support
> OAI, or at least did so during the Metasearch project, so it's
> possible
> that a significant proportion of U.K. museums could already have
> access
> to this technology. <<
>
> Adlib users out there may be interested to know that we distribute the
> OAI server for Adlib Museum, Archive and Library collection management
> systems free of charge.
>
> It is available for download from our website as a 'ready to run'
> package which includes XSLT stylesheets with mapping from Adlib to
> Dublin Core. You can configure the software to suit your own specific
> requirement, of course.
>
> For more information, please see the 'OAI Server' news item on our web
> site.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ian
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Richard Light
> Sent: 15 February 2008 09:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: API use-cases
>
> In message
> <[log in to unmask]
> .
> u
> k>, David Dawson <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>
>> Can you confirm for us whether the MODES Webserver has/will/could
>> support OAI harvesting.
>
> There is a separate ModesOAI CGI program which provides OAI support,
> which I originally wrote/enhanced around the time of the Metasearch
> project and subsequently updated for ModesXML while working with the
> Wordsworth Trust. As it happens, I installed the MXML program at
> the WT
>
> earlier this week and checked that it works. However, I'm afraid you
> can't test it, because the OAI program is only accessible within their
> network, and is protected from the outside world by a "screening"
> program I wrote which only allows requests from specified IP
> addresses.
> (Also, it currently only delivers data in DC Culture format, so
> strictly
>
> speaking it isn't a proper OAI server ;-) )
>
> Given the generality of the OAI spec, I have implemented ModesOAI so
> that it is driven by a user-supplied control document (XML, of course)
> which specifies which files to harvest from, which metadata formats
> are
> supported and which XSLT transforms to apply to the data to achieve
> each
>
> metadata format. This means that users can use ModesOAI to deliver
> any
> XML that their core data can be turned into by means of an XSLT
> transform.
>
> The OAI concept of "sets" is tied into ModesXML indexes, and again the
> user can specify which indexes represent an OAI "set". It's a fairly
> crude form of information retrieval, but not too bad for what is meant
> to be a harvesting mechanism.
>
> ModesOAI isn't currently part of the released MODES product, and I
> would
>
> have to consult with the MUA about a strategy for releasing it more
> generally.
>
> It's worth pointing out that several other collections databases
> support
>
> OAI, or at least did so during the Metasearch project, so it's
> possible
> that a significant proportion of U.K. museums could already have
> access
> to this technology.
>
> Richard
> --
> Richard Light
> SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
> [log in to unmask]
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