We've been repeatedly told on the Fedora development list that the oai_dc data stream was misnamed to begin with, and we shouldn't use it for external facing data. Additionally, we *can't* use it for externally facing data, because since it is an internal-use datastream, we can't put an external-facing identifier in the dc:identifier field in that datastream.
However, the OAI PMH standard reserves oai_dc as a metadata prefix (<http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#MetadataNamespaces>). This is causing us problems with at least one organization we want to have harvest our records. We can work around this, probably, by customizing our harvester to publish a different datastream when oai_dc is requested. But this seems imperfect. If the Fedora object has a datastream with a name that means "I am the OMI PMH datastream to be harvested", it's going to continue to be problematic for users. Is there any plan to change the name of that datastream to something that hasn't been reserved to mean something else? Thanks, -Deborah -- Deborah Kaplan Digital Resources Archivist Digital Collections and Archives Tufts University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-developers
