actually, if the admin registered the baseURL on the OAI-PMH web site,
it is damned easy. :-)
http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites
i thought the OAI-PMH was a response to the problems of federated
searching of ePrint repositories that used the Dienst protocol?
:-)
Jewel
On May 8, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Scott Wilson wrote:
> I rest my case :-)
>
> S
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> On 8 May 2008, at 19:51, Riley Fred wrote:
>> I'm trying to get an OAI-PMH harvester client running on a test
>> server with the eventual aim of putting it onto a site I run (www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/)
>> for our students and teachers to hunt for learning objects in
>> remote repositories. For that, I need to a) find the repositories,
>> which isn't so hard, and b) find their OAI-PMH service URLs, which
>> is damned hard - I have to email each repository admin with a
>> request.
>>
>
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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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