[CWISUsers] Question about database schema and importing data

[Mark Jordan]

Hi Ed,

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:06:09PM -0500, Edward Almasy wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, at 09:16:49AM, Mark Jordan wrote:
> > I have one remaining question: how easy would it be to add additional OAI
> > metadata schemas?
> 
>    Because of the way that the underlying software is built, it's not
>    hard for us to add formats at the OAI server level, but what does
>    require significant additional effort is constructing an interface for
>    defining the desired OAI format and laying out how that maps to the
>    local schema.
> 
>    We are thinking of adding a "native" OAI format, that uses the local
>    schema as a base for the OAI format.  Would that work for you?  Or is
>    there a pre-existing OAI format to which you'd like to map your data?
> 

No, no particular schema but having oai_marc would be nice. Since most harvesters focus on oai_dc maybe it's a mute point
anyway (but who knows what other schemas will become common in the future).

SPT--EditOAIConfig.php appears to be a start at the web interface for mappings of CWIS fields to non-oai_dc schema. Are you
talking about namespace declarations and other elements that aren't included in that interface? As long as 1) the person who
was wanting to set up a new schema defined appropriate fields in the CWIS database structure using the existing tools, and 2)
could add schema-specific components like the namespace declaration, what else would be involved in adding support for 
additional schema?

Mark


Mark Jordan
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