RE: [sdx-users] Question About OAI

[Patricio Pastor]

Thanks for the answer. 

The other repositories that we have are not in SDX. Are in systems that
allow to accept consultations by OAI. How we can consult to those
systems from SDX? that is the question. 

Saludos,

Patricio Pastor Howard
Coordinador Programa Cybertesis
Universidad de Chile
Sistema de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas - SISIB
Fono 678 2566 - Fax 678 2574
http://www.cybertesis.cl


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De: Pierrick Brihaye [mailto:address@hidden 
Enviado el: Viernes, 24 de Octubre de 2003 5:11
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Asunto: Re: [sdx-users] Question About OAI


Hi,

Patricio Pastor a écrit:

> I am new in the list and Martin advised to me to make the questions of
> SDX here.

This is definitely a good place to do so :-) Welcome !

> In Chile we have activated SDX for our site www.cybertesis.cl, but we
> want that the interface search also carries out consultations to other

> repositorios

Are the other repositories *also* cyberthesis repositories ? If so, 
you'd better consider querying their indices trough RMI IMHO. See recent

discussions on this topic ; unfortunately not fully answered yet. Docs 
definitely need a section about RMI within SDX.

OAI-PMH stands for "Protocol for *Metadata* Harvesting". RMI allows you 
to query *data*... or metadata if you like. The big question is : what 
do you want to query ?

> it can with SDX?

Everything can be done with SDX :-)

> or SDX only accepts OAI consultations but it cannot do
> them?

CVS version of SDX can theorically act as an OAI repositry as well as an

OAI harvester. Testers are welcome.

Cheers,

-- 
Pierrick Brihaye, informaticien
Service régional de l'Inventaire
DRAC Bretagne
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