Hi Claudia, Interesting scheme, but it requires more of a relationship between the nodes than I require (or desire). The federation that I'm thinking of is for searching. It would be nice for any of the DSpace instances to auto magically discover who belongs to the federation and should be searched.
One question. With SRW/U, is one searching the full text or just the dublin core metadata. John On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Claudia Jürgen <claudia.juer...@ub.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > Hi John, > > you may use SRW/U to search. OAI-PMH is not made for searching, but for > harvesting. > Furthermore there is pf-DSpace for Federating DSpace see > http://hdl.handle.net/2160/281 > But I don't know what has become of it. > > Hope that helps > > Claudia Jürgen > > > John Preston schrieb: >> >> The individuals departments will want to maintain their own instances >> in some cases, thus I need to be able to search across them in these >> cases. >> >> John >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Dorothea Salo <ds...@library.wisc.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM, John Preston <byhisde...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> My use case involves running a number of DSpace instances in various >>>> departments, and collaborating entities that hold digital materials >>>> (text, image, video, spatial, etc). I need to have a central point for >>>> users to search across all these instances. Some of the instances may >>>> not be public. >>>> >>>> The Carrot2 software looks interesting from my perspective. >>>> >>>> Anyone think I'm going in the wrong direction? >>>> >>>> John >>> >>> Why not have one DSpace with Manakin theming and individual-collection >>> policies on access? Seems to me that solves the problem, although it >>> may not be feasible if individual departments insist on owning their >>> entire DSpace. >>> >>> If you're running the whole shebang, though, it seems workable, and >>> might even be less work than the alternatives. >>> >>> Dorothea >>> >>> -- >>> Dorothea Salo ds...@library.wisc.edu >>> Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw >>> University of Wisconsin >>> Rm 218, Memorial Library >>> (608) 262-5493 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with >>> Adobe(R)AIR(TM) >>> software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and >>> code to >>> build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of >>> local >>> resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK >>> and >>> Ajax docs to start building applications >>> today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> DSpace-tech mailing list >>> DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with >> Adobe(R)AIR(TM) >> software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code >> to >> build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of >> local >> resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK >> and >> Ajax docs to start building applications >> today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com >> _______________________________________________ >> DSpace-tech mailing list >> DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
