[open-bibliography] Library support and REST

Tue Oct 26 11:29:55 UTC 2010

Sidestepping all of the sanctimonious patronizing towards libraries
(chemistry is not much of a high horse to look down from), to answer
Peter's original question about getting the data: DSpace has ways to
get data out.  Every DSpace instance has an OAI-PMH provider:

https://spectradspace.lib.imperial.ac.uk:8443/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify

it's just that Imperial's seems to be broken.

DSpace also has an SRU plugin:

http://code.google.com/p/oclcsrwdspacelucene/

But that doesn't mean Imperial has installed it.

Maybe if they had a vendor to call for support...

But, seriously, it's disingenuous to brand me (Talis is a slightly
more complicated entity than you are painting) as a "representative of
the vendors".

It's not a zero-sum game:  you can have open source, open data and
commerce in the same conversation.  I am hardly a corporate shill, but
a diverse ecosystem would most likely be the most profitable for
everybody.

-Ross.