Hi all
Roger said:
I have been proposing that a standard harvesting protocol should be adopted. OAI was the top candidate but I haven't had time to look into it and I don't think anybody else has. I just noticed Rod is suggesting OpenSearch. I'd like to see some one have a look into these alternatives after October and try and come up with some recommendations/applicability statements. OAI has the notion of subsets of data and it would be good to have some method of sharing subset names etc.
We're going to start looking at OAI in the context of GBIF using it to keep up to date with IPNI data. We have been held up for the last few months but should begin investigating this soon.
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