Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-03-11 Thread Rui Ramos
Hello *, Sorry for taking this thread up again. As we at U.PORTO are also very interested in the Federated Repository issue, due to our Organization distribution. Could some one tell if the proposal of Lerry Stone in the Dspace wiki: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ObjectUri Is being

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-03-05 Thread John Preston
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: > The OAI protocol handles resending items that have been updated since the > last harvest. Could you expand on this a little for me as I am not very familiar with the OAI protocol. If I import an item (meta data only) from a source repository

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-03-05 Thread John Preston
Sorry to take so long to reply but I got side tracked. One question. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: > > This patch will add: > > Part A: The ability for a DSpace collection to be harvested from another > repository via OAI-PMH. When you look at the collection editing scree

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-12 Thread John Davison
Federating multiple DSpace instances is critical to the mission of the Ohio Digital Resource Commons also. Even though we have centralized hosting, we decided on separate (virtual machine) instances to allow for greater local control by each institution. Our federated search is currently OAI-PM

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Phillips
John, Down here in Texas we also face this challenge to create a federated repository among all institutional repositories across the state. Up until now we've been doing a manual federation process which includes dspace imports and exports plus some scripts that work on those exports. Th

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread John Preston
>> It would be nice for any of the DSpace instances to auto magically >> discover who belongs to the federation and should be searched. > > Have each register itself in some sort of directory service. The > search front-end can then first search the directory to discover > participating repositori

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
haverc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:39 AM > To: LeVan,Ralph > Cc: Mark H. Wood; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances > > I'd be very interested in trying this out. How would one search

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread Mr Havercamp
d be glad to work with someone on improving the code if they > wanted to add something like ranking to it. > > Ralph > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:29 AM >> To: dspa

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
ke ranking to it. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:29 AM > To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances > > On Wed, Feb 11,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:19:06AM -0500, John Preston wrote: > The federation that I'm thinking of is for searching. Note that this is a special case of the more general problem: my institution or consortium operates a number of different digital document repositories of various types, and I nee

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread Claudia Jürgen
Hi John, as SRW searches via the Lucene indexes, the fulltext (as keyword) will be searched if it's extraction and indexing is done with filter-media. Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen John Preston schrieb: > Hi Claudia, Interesting scheme, but it requires more of a > relationship between the n

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread John Preston
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 searche

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-11 Thread Claudia Jürgen
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

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread Mr Havercamp
You can submit your sitemaps to yahoo and use their BOSS API to search across multiple domains using domain=dspace1.domain.tld,dspace2.domain.tld,dspace-n.domain.tld. I believe yahoo is also working towards indexing dc meta data for the semantic web, and hopefully they will integrate this into

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread John Preston
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 wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM, John Preston wrote: >> My use case involves running a n

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread Dorothea Salo
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM, John Preston 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 th

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread John Preston
; > >> > We're just going to harvest the data using OAI-PMH. I'm sure you've >> thought of that, too. >> > >> > --Dave >> > >> > == >> > David Walker >> > Library Web Services Manager >> > Cali

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread Robert Tansley
_ > > From: John Preston [byhisde...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:53 AM > > To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances > > > > Does anyone know if any wor

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS]
State University > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > > From: John Preston [byhisde...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:53 AM > To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances >

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread stuart yeates
too. > > --Dave > > == > David Walker > Library Web Services Manager > California State University > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > > From: John Preston [byhisde...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread Walker, David
= David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu From: John Preston [byhisde...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:53 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-tech] Federat

[Dspace-tech] Federating a number of DSpace instances

2009-02-10 Thread John Preston
Does anyone know if any work is going on regarding federating a number of DSpace instances so that the group could be considered as a single DSpace instance for searching say. My use case has a number of DSpace instances that are operated and maintained as individual instances. When a user wishes t