[open-bibliography] Library support and REST

[Christopher Gutteridge]

...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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