Search exposure

  • With more repositories, and an increasing number of different types need a standards-based way for information gateways, as well as other repositories, to query repository contents directly
  • Also  desirable to provide a standard way to harvest from repositories to support a single search gateway
    • preferable to federated search because it provides a better user experience
      • no search lags
      • no de-duping
  • ARROW will be supporting OAI-PMH  and has commissioned (as described) the development of an SRU/SRW web service on top of Fedora
  • Google has also agreed to work with ARROW to expose repository content via Google Scholar
  • Cross-sector Opportunities:
    • extend OAI-PMH to harvest content as well as metadata
      • modOAI project is already looking at this
    • agreement for repository projects to use SRU/SRW for searching across their different repositories