[open-bibliography] Fwd: LibraryCloud university of florida

[Karen Coyle]

In general, yes, unfortunately it is too much to ask. UF is a  
particularly sophisticated library system, so they may have the  
capability, but OAI is generally not available from commercial library  
systems, which is what most libraries use. The only way I know to make  
the library system data available is to export it and load it into an  
OAI-PMH-compatible repository. UF may be able to do this, but again  
there is the export/update question since OAI-PMH does not go directly  
against their working database.

see: http://code.google.com/p/xcoaitoolkit/

kc

Quoting Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.Berkeley.EDU>:

> Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
>
>> I think we should ask for dumps, but we either have to be concerned
>> about keeping them up to date or we should expressly treat these as
>> "experimental" and thus relieve the providing agency of the burden of
>> reproducing dumps on a regular basis. (And I'm not convinced that a
>> succession of full dumps truly serves the needs of folks building
>> databases.)
>
> Understood.  Would it be too much to ask libraries to plug their  
> catalogs into OAI-PMH?
> --Jim
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> Jim Pitman
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