Just my two cents. OAI-PMH is a trusty old standby with a clear
protocol for harvesting metadata and mechanisms for specifying the
metadata included. Generic RSS/Atom feeds are great, but tend to be
custom and thus require a bit more on the client side to handle the
data from different ones and is more likely to change and break over
time.
Regarding the resumption tokens that Pat mentioned, Connexions'
systems engineer, Ross Reedstrom, had the following to say "As to the
'awkwardness' of the resumption token, from the devops/server side,
having defined semantics to allow clients to page is so much
arbitrarily chopping them off(1). Because that's the other answer to
resource starvation of naïve clients asking for the whole enchilada."
So perhaps the new implementation can smooth that out.
Kathi
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Jenny Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We're half way through work to migrate LearningSpace and LabSpace to Moodle 2 and revisiting all our functionality to decide whether its worth our effort to update it.
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> The biggest change for LearningSpace is to move all the browse & search out of Moodle and up to the Drupal layer alongside all the smaller OER that we release there. We'll be running our RSS feeds and OAI-PMH for OpenLearn as a whole from there, so the feeds will contain a broader range of OU content. (note for harvesters - urls will change in the autumn, redirects will be in place for a while).
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> The bigger question is what to do about LabSpace, and that's where you guys come in. LabSpace is where we host OER created by other people. We currently offer the same RSS feeds and OAI-PMH service as we do on LearningSpace but because of the changes to LearningSpace this is no longer a 'free' option for LabSpace.
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> The RSS feeds are a no-brainer - I can recreate them and will do. But the OAI-PMH? I don't think any-one is using it. Is that because people don't know its there and would use it if they did? I have a vague recollection of talking to some-one about it - JORUM maybe? XPert? If there's a demand for it, I'll recreate it, but if there's not I'd sooner save myself the effort.
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> So, you are my customers - do you want OAI-PMH out of LabSpace and if so, why?
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> Jenny
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