[Oclist] Status of OpenContent?

[Sebastian Hammer]

Ross Singer wrote:

>Sebastian,
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>Thanks for the prompt response!
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>The delay on the OAIster content makes sense; the data is most likely
>a mess.  In fact it's most definitely a mess :)
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That is my impression as well, unfortunately. I'm not sure if OAIster as 
a massive group is really so interesting -- I've been wondering if it 
made more sense to break it up by source ID and offer access to it as X 
individual databases -- let people select what they're interested in and 
do their own merging in their client, etc.

>The indexes thing also makes sense; thanks to IRSpy for helping me
>know what to look for!
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Yay!   :-)

>Which brings me to a practical question.  Why doesn't:
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>find @attr 1=1016 doi:10.1177/0165551506062327
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>return anything (quoted or unquoted)?  Searching on the other
>520$a/dc:description fields (such as "32(2), pp. 149-159, 2006")
>brings back the record in question.
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If the field in question is otherwise indexed, I have no sensible 
explanation -- I'll dig through the raw data and see what's up with 
it... OAIster is not my favorite one of these beasts I do confess -- not 
because it's big, but because the data is so .... je ne sais quoi.

--Seb

>Thanks!
>-Ross.
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>On 10/4/07, Sebastian Hammer <quinn at indexdata.com> wrote:
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>>Hi Ross,
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>>thanks for this. Yes, the service is still being maintained -- we use it
>>actively ourselves. All of the indexes are updated automatically, on a
>>weekly basis, *except* for OAIster, which distributes its index in a way
>>which requires quite a bit of manual intervention -- at least we haven't
>>gotten our heads around how to automate it, yet. We were scdheduled to
>>update their index sometime next week, as it happens.
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>>As far as the SRU explain document, yes, due to the nature of the setup,
>>that may not currently reflect the actual, active indexes.. whereas the
>>Z39.50 Explain service would actually provide a correct index. I'll look
>>into this -- we mostly configure any clients manually, so it hasn't been
>>much of an issue for us.  :-)
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>>--Sebastian
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>>Ross Singer wrote:
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>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>It's been a while since there's been anything on this list (end of
>>>May, according to the archives).  What is the current status of this?
>>>Are the indexes still being updated?  OAIster seems to be somewhat out
>>>of date (articles from August in Arxiv don't appear in it) and indexes
>>>in the explain document throw "Unsupported index" diagnostics when
>>>searched (cql.all, dc.description, for example).
>>>
>>>Is this still a service that Index Data is maintaining?  Is there any
>>>way to know how current the data in each store is?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>-Ross.
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>>--
>>Sebastian Hammer, Index Data
>>quinn at indexdata.com   www.indexdata.com
>>Ph: (603) 209-6853 Fax: (866) 383-4485
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Sebastian Hammer, Index Data
quinn at indexdata.com   www.indexdata.com
Ph: (603) 209-6853 Fax: (866) 383-4485