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Hi,
Am Samstag, 26. September 2009 01:05:43 schrieb Thomas Krichel:
>
> I am not sure if an API is sufficent. I'd like to have a copy of the
> source data as well as of the data and scripts that are used to
> produce the output data. Anybody who will join my line of work
> will get these via rsync.
The main benefit of an API is, that you don't have to care about updating your
copy of data and scripts for aggregation and normalization.
>From my point of view and my experience with creating search services it's
better to integrate a service like BASE in established search services then
creating a new service with the copy of data from other ones (see vascoda
being a flop in germany with that strategy). Using an API is the easiest way
for integration, when there is a good reason for using a copy of data we can
talk about it (what we will do soon as I know).
After all we should not forget why we are doing this: we want to raise the
usage of OA-documents and the visibilty of scientific output stored in
repositories. The fact, that BASE as the largest aggregator of OAI-data is
independent is a good assumption to assure, that this will happen under the
guideline of the Budapest declaration, to which the "OCLC OAIster Terms and
Conditions" don't match as I think.
Cheers
Dirk
