- With more repositories, and an increasing
number of different types need a standards-based way for
information gateways, as well as other repositories, to query
repository contents directly
- Also desirable to provide a
standard way to harvest from
repositories to support a single search gateway
- preferable to
federated
search because it provides a better user experience
- no search lags
- no de-duping
- ARROW will be
supporting
OAI-PMH and has commissioned (as described) the development
of an SRU/SRW web
service on top of Fedora
- Google has also agreed to work with
ARROW to expose repository content via Google Scholar
- Cross-sector Opportunities:
- extend
OAI-PMH to harvest
content as well as metadata
- modOAI project is already looking
at this
- agreement for repository projects to use SRU/SRW
for
searching across their different repositories
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