Re: [EP-underground] OAI policies (was: [EP-tech] OAI harvestor problem (No verb was s pecified))

The default is deliberately minimal and restrictive (although could be
worded better).

I am not going to address these issues myself, but will wait for some
results and recommendations to the ROMEO project in the UK which is working
on these issues;
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/



On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:31:43 +0100, Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe wrote:
> [I send this to the Eprints Underground list as well, since the policy
> question is probably more appropriate there]
> 
> When I recently looked around to see what metadata and data policies
> different archives used in their OAI configuration, I found them to be quite
> different. Hence I wrote some policies based mostly on my own idea about how
> they should be, see <http://orgprints.org/perl/oai2?verb=Identify>
> 
> I did not check the CalTech policies back then, but I can see that the
> metadata policy seems similar to ours though the wording is different.
> 
> I would be interested in any comments on how appropriate policies should
> look. In particular, some archives mention that commercial use is not
> allowed, whereas I think that this is not a problem as long as there is a
> reference or direct link to the original metadata summary page. And some
> archives wrote something like "No rights at all are granted to this data",
> which I found a bit confusing.
> 
> Regards
> Hugo, http://orgprints.org/
> 
> 
> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> > Fra: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sendt: 13. marts 2003 17:00
> > Til: [email protected]
> > Emne: RE: [EP-tech] OAI harvestor problem (No verb was specified)
> > 
> > 
> > The three policy statements assigned in ArchiveOAIConfig.pm --
> > metadata_policy, data_policy and submission_policy -- are 
> > seen in the OAI
> > 'Identify' verb. The text we use may help you get stated with your own
> > policy statements. Look near the bottom:
> > 
> > http://caltechcstr.library.caltech.edu/perl/oai2?verb=Identify
> > 
> > --
> > Ed Sponsler
> > Caltech Library System
> > http://coda.caltech.edu
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jian Yang [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:44 PM
> > > To: EPrints.org Technical List
> > > Subject: Re: [EP-tech] OAI harvestor problem (No verb was specified)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi:
> > > Thanks Mike a lot for the information. I just realized that I 
> > > have not fully
> > > configured the
> > > ArchiveOAIConfig.pm. However, I really have no clue about how 
> > > to filling in
> > > things
> > > like metadata policy. From the document:
> > > "If you want to use the OAI system then you need to fill in 
> > > the blanks, such
> > > as policy and the OAI-id of the archive."
> > > It is indeed not easy for someone new to this. Anyone has any 
> > > suggestions?
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > > Regards,
> > > Jian
> > 

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