[Dspace-general] Seeking pointers to OAI-compliant East Asian scholarly information

[Edward Spodick]

Thanks for the many pointers to the OAI Registry at UIUC.  Our own repositories are also listed there.  Thanks also for Steve and Rose's pointers to a couple other possibilities.  We now have a start for experimentation.  If anyone encounters any more isolated or 'lonely' possibilities, please let us know.  :)

-Edward

At 9:35 am -0500 29/7/05, Thomas G. Habing wrote:
>Hello,
>
>At UIUC we have a registry of OAI data providers that might be of assistance in finding East Asian repositories.  You can browse a list of repositories by top-level domain (country codes):
>
>  http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ListTLDs.asp
>
>which could help find repositories originating in East Asia, but there are also other browse and search methods that might be helpful in finding repositories that contain some content relevant to East Asia, such as:
>
>  http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/search.asp?s=%22east+asia%22
>
>Kind regards,
>	Tom Habing
>
>Edward Spodick wrote:
>>A couple of us here are planning to play around with an experimental
>>development project involving retrieving data from OAI-compliant
>>repositories and seeing what sort of merging and manipulation of the
>>data we can do.
>>
>>Specifically, we are looking for pointers to OAI-compliant
>>repositories/collections/compilations of East Asian scholarly
>>information, regardless of language.  These could be institutional
>>repositories, research collections, etc.
>>
>>We know of some, but would welcome additional suggestions or pointers
>>to ones we might otherwise overlook.
>>
>>Thanks for any help you can provide.  This should be fun.  :)


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Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager
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