[open-bibliography] Introducing Knowledge for All

Tue Oct 25 02:16:43 UTC 2011

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Mark Leggott <mleggott at k4all.ca> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> The idea of a "repository for biblio datasets" is part of the K4All plan.
> We will be posting more detail on the technical architecture shortly, but
> the goal is to have a rich internal XML schema for metadata that can be
> mapped to other schemas/formats, similar to what you are suggesting below.
> The data will be stored in the Fedora repository framework, which provides a
> great deal of flexibility in how you get the data in and out.
>
> Mark
>
> If I get this right you envisage a (large) number of discrete datasets with
a central index pointing to them. If so I support this (I don't favour one
huge central repo). Sounds as is k4all will host several datasets but should
also cater for otehr distributed ones - was that the idea?

>
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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