[ANN] OAI client

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 08:22:56 UTC 2005


In the course of our project, we developed a client for the Open
Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/) protocol. We put it
into a separate package so that is usable in other projects as well.

The OAI spec allows "service providers" to harvest metadata from "data
providers" (mostly academic institutions - collections of papers,
theses, etcetera); the idea is that service providers add search
facilities, etcetera. We will harvest OAI archives in our P2P network
on special nodes that will listen for search queries and respond with
matching records from the archives - the effect is that you publish
the whole collection of an institution on the P2P network.

We will publish the package in SqueakSource later, in the meantime,
just shout if you want the code.

Regards,

Cees



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