[Dspace-general] Re: metadata questions

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Scott,

The CARET folks are writing up a status report for the wiki as we speak...
should be there in a couple of days, and will include the scope of their 
development
(wsdl's etc.). I should explain that we undertook this development to 
support interoperability
with learning management systems, so there's a bias towards certain ed-tech 
standards
like IMS-CP, but the design is pretty general and should be easily modified 
for other
data/metadata needs. I think they're almost finished with the coding too, 
so it's worth
waiting a bit to see how far these get you.

MacKenzie

At 04:01 PM 2/8/2005 +1100, Scott Yeadon wrote:
>Hi MacKenzie,
>
>Is there a link to these, they sound like what we would like to put behind 
>some of our Cocoon processing and interface work (even a sneak preview 
>would be good to look at).
>
>Thanks.
>
>Scott.
>
>Message: 4
>Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:40:41 -0500
>To: Gerson Galang <gerson.sapac at gawab.com>
>From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Re: [Dspace-general] metadata questions
>Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu, dspace-tech <dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>We (actually CARET at Cambridge) are working on some new Web Services for 
>DSpace that might help,
>including deposit, retrieval and search (building on that earlier SRW 
>service from OCLC).
>You'd need to write the desktop application to do the data transfer and 
>prompt for the metadata and license info,
>but it sounds like you're going to need that anyway.
>The Web Services should be ready pretty soon, and can be made available to 
>the intrepid right away.
>
>MacKenzie