[open-bibliography] Library support and REST

Tue Oct 26 11:38:25 UTC 2010

...and soon every EPrints will have open data but it won't be linked 
without some active engagement of the site admin.

With my previous suggestion of providing great tools as a way of 
encouraging change. You could provide great tools but write a license 
that says they can only be used with Open Data. I've never heard of such 
a license...

On 26/10/10 12:29, Ross Singer wrote:
> 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.
>
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