This conversation about Atom is, I think, really an important one to have.
As well designed and thought out as protocols standards such as OAI-PMH,
METS (and the budding OAI-ORE spec) are, they don't have that viral
technology attribute of utter simplicity. Sure there are trade-offs, but
the
Hi Peter,
I completely agree with everything you just wrote, especially about
Atom + APP being more than just a technology for blogs. APP is a
great lightweight alternative to WebDAV, and promising for all sorts
of data transfer. The fact that it has developer groundswell is a
huge plus.
I'm messing with SRU search of http://indexdata.dk/opencontent/oaister
I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in
OAISter, called Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational
Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures
by Robert S. Jensen.
I
