Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-27 Thread Chris Freeland
Roy, do you have an answer in mind? To me my project it's the content that is open, which is why it's worth the hurdles. Once you 'crack the nut' you can grab metadata, scans, and derivatives and ingest, parse, recombine, remix...as we've done for BHL. Access to OCA content may not be

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-27 Thread Sebastian Hammer
I concur. The content is open; and the OCA's use of MARC is open... I think they're waiting for the community to chip in the means and mechanisms to support whatever open APIs or protocols are deemed useful. We built a free Z39.50/SRU service based on a crawl through their text collection,

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-27 Thread K.G. Schneider
But why are there hurdles? Karen G. Schneider On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:29:57 -0600, Chris Freeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Roy, do you have an answer in mind? To me my project it's the content that is open, which is why it's worth the hurdles. Once you 'crack the nut' you can grab metadata,

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-27 Thread Tim Shearer
I see it as open it the way that google books is not. But, a huge part of being open is the provision of *access* and so having easy, documented APIs (in the way that google often does) would make this a whole lot easier to leverage. Still, it's a good thing and I'm pleased to have the

Re: [CODE4LIB] XForms for Metadata creation at c4lcon

2008-02-27 Thread Birkin James Diana
On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Bill Erickson wrote: Can someone point me to the demo links from the XForms fro Metadata Creation presentation? Michael Park's work is documented at: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/its/software/metadata/ Winona has a blog entry with links at:

Re: [CODE4LIB] XForms for Metadata creation at c4lcon

2008-02-27 Thread Park, Michael
Hi Bill, If you have any questions just hunt me down. I'd be more than happy to answer any questions. -Mike -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Erickson Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:58 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: