OAI coordination

[Tony Linde]

Hi Matthew,

AstroGrid is also looking to move to native xml databases - which ones have
you investigated and do you have any results we could steal^H^H^H^H^H make
use of?

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> On Behalf Of Matthew Graham
> Sent: 01 December 2003 22:19
> To: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: OAI coordination
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know that we briefly discussed this within NVO some weeks 
> back but I am interested in knowing how other people are 
> implementing OAI. I know that 
> everyone is not using the cgi-bin scripts to a set of XML 
> files so time and effort has been expended in either finding 
> or writing code to present OAI access to various other types 
> of data store and it would be nice to harvest this!
> 
> So for the record: I am currently looking into native XML 
> databases with Perl cgi-bin access (also Web service access 
> conforming to OAI protocol 
> but we (IVOA) have not really standardised on APIs for that 
> yet despite some brief discussion about it in Strasbourg).
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
>