At #hack4dk today in Copenhagen (http://hack4dk.tumblr.com/program), I heard about OAI-PMH ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_...), "a protocol ... used to harvest (or collect) the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives". I know that wikis (and Wikipedia) are not archives, but we do have an awful lot of stuff that could/should be connected to stuff in archives and elsewhere.
Are our services OAI-PMH compatible?
Regards, Ole
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen ole@palnatoke.org wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_...), ... Are our services OAI-PMH compatible?
As that page says, "Wikimedia uses an OAI-PMH repository to provide feeds of Wikipedia and related site updates for search engines and other bulk analysis/republishing endeavors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3AVersion has OAIRepository Provides OAI-PMH repository interface
The referenced page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_update_feed_service says WMF limits its update feed due to load considerations.
DBPedia's diagram http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DBpediaLive#h156-3 shows it extracting information from WMF wikis using OAI-PMH to update its structured knowledge set.
Hi Ole,
Op 5-10-2012 23:37, Ole Palnatoke Andersen schreef:
At #hack4dk today in Copenhagen (http://hack4dk.tumblr.com/program), I heard about OAI-PMH ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_...), "a protocol ... used to harvest (or collect) the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives". I know that wikis (and Wikipedia) are not archives, but we do have an awful lot of stuff that could/should be connected to stuff in archives and elsewhere.
Are our services OAI-PMH compatible?
Basic OAI-PMH sucks (because in my experience dublin core is quite useless). Extended versions of OAI-PMH that are tuned to the source (in this case Wikipedia) can be very useful.
Maarten
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