Category Archives: OAI-PMH

UKOER 2: Collections, technology, and community

By JohnR | September 6, 2011

What technology is being used to aggregate open educational resources? What role can the subject community play in resources discovery? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
In the UKOER 2 programme Strand C funded “Projects identifying, collecting and [...]

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UKOER 2: Dissemination protocols in use and Jorum representation

By JohnR | August 26, 2011

What technical protocols are projects using to share their resource? and how are they planning on representing their resources in Jorum? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Dissemination protocols
The chosen dissemination protocols are usually already built in the platforms in use by projects; [...]

Also posted in Jorum, OAI-ORE, Standards, metadata / digitial repositories, oer, rss, rss_atom, ukoer | 2 Comments

considering OAI-PMH

By JohnR | January 21, 2011

OAI-PMH is a odd thing:

a protocol almost universally implemented in repositories and consequently (usually) publishing metadata about repository contents to the world
a protocol frequently reviled by anyone trying to aggregate feeds from different repositories and build discovery tools and services on top of that aggregate.

I’m not going to repeat OAI-PMH’s problems in detail (PERX, the experience of the NSDL [...]

Also posted in Metadata, Standards, atom, cetis-standards, metadata / digitial repositories, oer, rss, tools, ukoer | 4 Comments

The use of OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE in the UKOER programme

By JohnR | March 30, 2010

OAI-PMH
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH ; http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ) “provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting.” The protocol is widely used by repository software to make metadata about the resources they store available. In its use the repository acts as a data provider which is then able to be harvested [...]