Legal? Yes, as far as I know. How well resolvers will handle them may
be another question.
I think the openurl is designed to be extensible in terms of metadata
by use of community profiles. In theory this seems fine, but I'm not
sure how easy it has been to get new profiles accepted in practice.
Owen
On 7 Jan 2009, at 17:40, "Jonathan Rochkind" <[email protected]> wrote:
Would it be a legal OpenURL to use any of those in an OpenURL? They
aren't approved for OpenURL use, right?
But if I have to do something non-standard with OpenURL, might as
well use a non-OpenURL standard, sure.
In general, the lack of easy extensibility of OpenURL is a flaw that
hopefully we will learn from in subsequent standards.
Jonathan
Ross Singer wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Rochkind
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hmm, I could send a DC KEV OpenURL (ie info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dc ;
there
is no format for an XML DC? Kind of odd), and use the "type"
element.
http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:oai_dc
Other possibilities here would be:
http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:MARC21
and
http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:mods
The latter is in trial use, but it would be odd for it not to be
approved at some point in the not too distant future.
-Ross.
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Jonathan Rochkind
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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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